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We love November

When I was a child we used to tramp around the bonfire (usually built by everyone using timber offcuts and broken furniture) chanting, “Remember, remember! The Fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot”. As a result, I always remember that snippet of history and the date of the Gunpowder Plot – 1605. However, if you are having a bonfire this month make sure that you check for hibernating hedgehogs and other wildlife before you get the party started, and look after dogs: they really do not like fireworks. That way everyone has a good time – ideally involving sausages and sparklers.

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The Full Monty

As the seasons change and temperature and light levels lower, it can feel like a bleak month, but for Monty , the abundant birdlife that visits Longmeadow helps lift any seasonal gloom

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Digging deeper

Putting the spotlight on the biggest issues in gardening today

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Create an elegant arrangement of silvery foliage and winter hardy flowers

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Wrapping up for winter

With temperatures now dipping below freezing in some areas of the UK, Monty shows how to prepare and protect your plants and garden for the winter ahead

The art of composting

Thinking about starting a compost pile or bin? Now is as good a time as any to turn layers of garden and kitchen waste into soil gold, no matter how big or small your space. Becky Searle explains how

Winter house plant care

Your house plants might start slowing down over the colder months, but there’s still plenty you can do to keep your indoor garden thriving this season by following Sarah Gerrard-Jones’ advice

YOUR PRUNING MONTH

Use the last days of autumn to get plants ready for cold, windy days ahead, says Frances Tophill

Gardens of the Year 2024

It’s time to reveal our Judges’ Choice from our 2024 Gardens of the Year competition. And that’s not all – in January we’ll share with you the garden that GW readers select as their People’s Choice, so vote now for your favourite at GardenersWorld.com/peoples-choice

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Plants for problem places

Dry, dark, soaking wet or sun-blasted? Even the most challenging sites can offer a happy home to the right plants – the trick is knowing which ones to choose, says Alan Titchmarsh

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Your wildlife month

November brings a chill to the air and misty mornings with cobwebs strung across paths by fat garden spiders. Many gardeners resume feeding birds now, but look at what natural food your garden can offer: keep seedheads in place, delay pruning roses until the hips have been taken, leave windfall apples on the ground and thickets of long grass to shelter caterpillars. If you don’t have any berrying trees, why not plant a rowan or hawthorn? Sweep your fallen leaves into borders, where they’ll rot down while giving a home to insects and grubs, which in turn are food for blackbirds who rifle through them. We often supplement birds’ diets because there’s little natural food around, but we forget it’s often us who removed it. So why not try just letting things be this autumn?

Hassle -freee harvests

Don’t let the cold stop your crops. Jack Wallington guides you through easy ways to keep things going throughout the winter ahead

November Growing guide

There’s plenty of fruit to be planted this month and still some veg to start

WHAT TO DO NOW

50 things to do this month from the Gardeners’ World team

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

STEP BY STEP Tidy borders Now is a

AROUND THE GARDEN

Tie down any loose rose stems A figure-of-eight

Lift and divide astrantias

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

Plant a colour-themed pot

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

FLOWERS

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

Take root cuttings

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

GREENHOUSE

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

FRUIT AND VEG

WHAT TO DO NOW | NOVEMBER

Q&A

Your questions answered

Gardeners’ Question Time

Our experts tackle your queries, including a saggy conifer, a fungus-infested cotoneaster and a mutant mega-tomato

Crossword

Put down your trowel, pick up a pen and exercise those brain muscles instead…

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