Plant spring bulbs.

Empty summer pots and hanging baskets, and compost the contents.

Plant up pots with winter color.

Lift and pot up tender perennials to protect over winter.

Plant evergreen shrubs and conifer hedges while the soil is still warm.

Remove any pot saucers and raise pots up onto feet to prevent waterlogging over winter.

Transplant deciduous shrubs that are in the wrong place or have outgrown their current position.

Reduce the height of shrub roses to avoid windrock damage over winter.

Remove large fruits on fig trees that have failed to ripen, leaving pea-sized fruits to develop for harvesting next year.

Sow green manure, such as winter rye, rather than leaving soil bare over winter.

Cover salad plants with cloches to prolong cropping.

Keep sowing batches of hardy broad beans and peas outdoors for early crops next year.

Plant garlic cloves in a sunny well-drained spot.

Finish picking runner beans and French beans, but leave a few pods to ripen fully, so you can save the seeds.

Divide large clumps of herbs, such as chives, lemon balm and marjoram, then replant or share with friends.

Clear away old crops, so they can't harbor pests and diseases on the veg plot through the winter.

Order bare-root fruit trees and bushes for planting from late autumn to early spring.

Rake up fallen leaves from lawns, borders, driveways and paths, and store in bags to rot down into leafmold.

Apply an autumn lawn feed to revive the grass after the rigors of summer.

Spike compacted lawns and brush grit into the holes to improve drainage.

Fork up perennial weeds removing every bit of root.

Collect up hoses and drip-feed systems and store indoors over winter, so they don't freeze and split.

Clean out and disinfect bird boxes.

Gather up canes and plant supports that are no longer in use, and store indoors over winter.

Soft and bush fruit

Herbaceous perennials

Mediterranean shrubs

Yew hedges

Ornamental trees

Take cuttings of shrubby herbs, such as rosemary, lemon verbena, and thyme.

Collect (and sow) seeds from hardy perennials.

Divide and transplant perennials.

Take hardwood cuttings from ornamental trees and shrubs.

Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow parsley)

Galium odoratum (Sweet woodruff)

Orlaya grandiflora (White laceflower)

Phacelia