Planting, protection and transplanting are the things to do to keep your garden happy in autumn and well prepared for the winter.

Here's your to-do list for April and May:

  • You can transplant your perennials throughout the autumn. Dig up, divide and replant.

  • Plant trees, shrubs, rose, vines and groundcovers now so that they can establish themselves before winter arrives.

  • Start thinking about protective covering for your frost sensitive plants – especially tender climbers, palms and tree ferns. Plants from frost a layer of mulch in the form of bark chips, sawdust, or fallen leaves spread around your plants will provide a blanket of protection.

  • It is time to cut down on watering your Kikuyu lawn, twice a month is fine.

  • Continue watering cool season evergreen lawns regularly like Shade Over and All Seasons Evergreen.

  • Sow or plant cool season lawns like Shade Over and All Seasons Evergreen.

  • Autumn is really good time to lay a new lawn.

  • Keep winter and spring-flowering shrubs well watered to prevent buds from dropping.

  • Spread aphicide granules around the base of conifers to prevent winter attack from the cypress aphid, continue throughout the colder months.

  • Seeds. Sow alyssum, calendula antirrhinum, Californian poppy, campanula, candytuft, delphinium, larkspur, linaria, lobelia, myosotis, sweetpeas, Namaqualand daisy, nemesia, stocks and schizanthus.

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  • Seedlings. Plant antirrhinum, Bellis perennis, cineraria, cornflowers, dianthus, delphinium, foxglove, gazania, gypsophila, larkspur, lobelia, lupin, pansy, penstemom, petunia, poppies, primulas, primula obconia, sweet peas and viola.

  • Bulbs. P;ant anemone, babiana, bearded Iris, Louisiana Iris, dutch iris, freesia, hyacinth, ixia, muscari, ranunculus, scillia, sparaxis and tritonia.

  • Fertilise your winter flowering annuals with Multifeed Flowergro.

  • Citrus trees will benefit from a feeding with 8:1:5 or Rose Food.

  • Stop feeding your roses.

  • Remove fallen autumn leaves from ponds to prevent water from going cloudy.
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