Ornamental garden:

• Part prune roses to prevent wind rock.
• Continue to tidy borders if weather permits.
• Final cut for lawns if no frosts.
• Rake and remove fallen leaves.
• Cutback spent foliage and flowers of herbaceous perennials.
• Leave the seed heads of grasses like Miscanthus to provide winter structure.
• Continue to lay turf for new lawns – avoid frosty days if possible.
• Remove surplus dead leaves from ponds.
• Complete planting of bulbs.
• Mulch borders – especially borderline hardy perennials.
• Plant bare-root shrubs and roses.
• Plant amaryllis or paper-white daffodil bulbs for blooms in time for Christmas.
• Plant winter flowering shrubs like daphne and sarcococca.
• Take hardwood cuttings of roses and other deciduous shrubs.
• Scarify lawns.
• Keep off lawns in wet and frosty weather.

Vegetable garden:

• Begin winter pruning of fruit trees.
• Plant fruit trees, soft fruit and cane fruit.
• Plant garlic cloves.
• Apply grease bands around trunks of fruit trees to protect them from the winter months.
• Apply a good layer of compost/manure to bare areas of ground.
• Protect salad plants under cloches/ fleece etc.
• Clear spent old plants.