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YOUR PRUNING MONTH

September may be the official start of autumn but we can still get some very warm weather indeed. Certainly, by the end of the month it will begin to feel like the cusp of autumn, but this is the last little patch of proper heat that both we and the plants can enjoy.

A lot of what you’ll be doing in your garden at this time of year will be tidying up. Flopped, falling and ageing plants will need staking or clipping into

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