It's a tricky balancing act, but follow these simple tips and it'll be easier that you think.

• Start planning your winter flowering garden.

• Prepare beds for spring flowering bulbs.

• Divide easy to grow perennials and groundcovers like agapanthus, wild iris, red-hot pokers, ornamental grasses, day lilies, alstroemerias and asters.

• Buds on autumn flowering shrubs are developing so make sure you keep them fertilised and watered.

• Deadhead flowers like roses, cannas, agapanthus, daisy bushes and dahlias; this will keep your garden looking tidy and will encourage more flowers.

• Water Camellias and Azaleas well.

• Remove any summer annuals that are looking tired.

• Continue fertilising your whole garden and in particular your roses, hydrangeas, fuchsias and vegetables with 8:1:5.

• Citrus trees can be fed with 2kg of Rose food and 75 g of Magnesium sulphate (Epson Salts).

• Continue fertilising and watering your lawn.

• Continue spraying your roses on a fortnightly basis to prevent both fungal and disease attacks.

• Continue mulching your beds with lawn clippings, fallen leaves and bark chips to prevent loss of moisture.
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• Sow seeds like Namaqualand Daisies, primulas, pansies, Virginian Stocks, Sweet Peas, stocks and Iceland poppies.

• Plant seedlings like alyssum, aster, chrysanthemum, delphinium, dianthus, gazania, petunia, marigold, nasturtium, nicotiana, dwarf phlox and verbena.