September in the Garden 2026

You can also see a glorious display of dahlias that are currently in full bloom, and hopefully these will continue to provide colour in the garden until the first frosts arrive (a scary thought after our lovely hot summer days!).

For some plants, however, their colour starts to fade. Our Sunflower Maze is nearing its natural end, but you are welcome to come and pick the flower heads for free – those that are no longer bright and beautiful make excellent bird feeders if you hang them upside down in your garden. The asters and grasses are taking on the autumnal colours that remind us we are leaving Summer behind.

Our jobs this month are to make the most of the spoils of Summer, with continual harvesting of the fruit and vegetables, especially the beans and courgettes, and digging up the final potatoes for storage. We are sowing our Autumn and Winter vegetables now including Chinese Cabbage, winter spinach and Mizuna, for example. We can also sow garlic and broad beans toward the end of the month for earlier Spring harvests.

In the cutting garden we are collecting seed, clearing away the spent annuals and cutting flowers for drying as well as preparing the beds for sowing of biennials and hardy annuals for next year.

The herbaceous borders and the Tapestry Garden all need tidying and after our few days of rain the weeds have reappeared, so the weeding starts again.

This is the time of year when we start implementing the changes we want to make to the borders. Our new climate-resilient border has worked very well and so we will be planting up the opposite border to match this over the Autumn period.

As always, we are open all week to visitors so please do come and see the garden as it transitions into Autumn. It may not be as colourful as in the height of Summer, but there is always something to see and enjoy and we are happy to answer any questions you have.

The Gardens Team x