The Garden of Eaden: November 2025

Five Mistakes to Avoid Growing Hyacinths - Hyacinthus orientalis

Hyacinths are a fantastic choice for the home or garden due to their fantastic blooms and wonderfully fragrant scent. And while they are usually very reliable during their first year, they can perform poorly in subsequent years. So to avoid weak growth and poor flowering, English horticulturist Simon discusses his five mistakes to avoid when growing Hyacinths.

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Monty Don Shares his Essential Gardening Jobs to do in November

If you though that you could get away with not getting on with any gardening jobs in November then you would be wrong. Monty Don's has a list of garden tasks that are both time sensitive for these autumn months as well as helping prepare your plats to cope with the winter freeze and ensuring improved flowering displays come the spring. So in this video, English horticulturist Simon explains Monty Don Essential Gardening Jobs to do in November.

Cut these Plants Back Now in November, Before it's too Late Prune, Trim

For most people, gardening in November is more about enjoying the garden from the comfort of your back room rather than doing any actual work in it. However, there are a number of time sensitive cuts that will need to be made in order to improve the health or your plants and to ensure fantastic flowering displays in the following season. So in this video, English horticulturist Simon discusses which plants he regards needs to be cut during this months. Never forget to cut these plants in November.

Surviving the Chill: How to Overwinter Geraniums - Pelagoniums

Despite being a subtropical plant, bedding geraniums are surprisingly hardy. However, while they will not be able to cope with a hard frost, or wet, freezing roots, it is possible to overwinter geraniums with a certain amount of winter care management. In this video, English horticulturist Simon explains several ways in which you can protect your geraniums over the winter period to ensure that you have your plants survive ready for planting back outside in the spring.

Avoid these Gardening Mistakes in November

For many gardeners, November is the month they hang up their gardening clothes, clean and store their boots. Instead they make themselves a nice cup of tea and watch old episodes of Magnum PI in front of a roaring fire. However, nature does not stop and there is real work to be done which can make a real impact with regards to next years flowering displays. So in this video English horticulturist Simon discusses garden mistakes that should be avoided in November.

Never Cut these Trees in Autumn, Fall, Trim, Prune

When your ornamental or fruiting trees have dropped their leaves in the autumn, you can be forgiven for thinking that they are now dormant and ready for pruning , cutting or trimming. However, there are a number of tree species that you will need to hold off with that remedial work for a number of reasons such as increased risk from fungal and bacterial infection or weakening the tree from heavy sap loss. Don't forget, miss-times cuts can also remove flowering wood which will produce next years flowering displays!. So in this video, English horticulturist Simon discusses his list of trees that should never be cut in the autumn.

Five Mistakes to Avoid Growing Olive Trees - Olea europaea

If you are growing a Olive tree, but are concerned that it is not looking very healthy, don't worry as this happens a lot for those plants grown here in the UK. However, it is relatively easy to improve the health of these plants. In this video, English horticulturist Simon discusses his five mistakes to avoid when growing an Olive tree in either a pot, container or in the ground.

Top Five Flowering Plants for November

To be honest, there are not a huge amount of flowering plants in December, although if you have been up on your deadheading there will a number of species that will be having their last few blooms before the first hard frost of the seasons puts them fully to bed. So, in this video, English horticulturist Simon discusses his top five flowering plants for December.

Never Cut these Plants in November

November midway through the autumn and there is a distinct change in the air! Leaves turn colour and falling in abundance, flowering plants are running out of steam, and the temptation to get back into the garden for a tidy up is compelling. However, before your get to work with you secateurs and shears, take a moment to check both what needs and what does not need cutting now. Get this wrong and you could be removing a huge amount of next years flowering wood which could ruin next years ornamental displays! In this video, English horticulturist Simon hopes to point you in the right direction by discussing which plants should never be cut in November!