Sven Wombwell shares his colourful autumnal tips with all garden enthusiasts.

Our gardens are mostly used in the hot summer months but why shut the back door when autumn comes? To keep them looking at their best all year we need to keep gardening come rain or shine!

You might think now’s the time to hang up the gardening gloves but presenter Sven Wombwell is here to show you Autumn is the key to making your garden look good for next Summer.

Winter plant list
Ophiopogon Nigrescens
Phormium 'Pink Panther'
Chamaerops humilis (palm)
Cyclamen
Winter Pansies
Carex elata 'Aurea'
Virunmum bodantense dawn
Euonymus Alatus
Viburnum farrei
Nandina domestica
Cornus alba sibirica
Picea pungens ‘globosa’

Phormium yellow wave or similar
Hakonacchloa macra ‘Aureola’
Dryopteris affinis
Asplenium scolopendrium

Erica carnea
Erica erigina

Heleborus foetidus
Heleborus argutifolius
Heleborus niger (Christmas rose)

Festuca glauca ‘Elijah blue’
Euonymus fortuneii ‘emerald gaiety’
Epimedium  rubrum