* Water bearded iris and feed with rose food.

* Spread compost over your garden to enrich soil.

* Sprinkle wood ash over the garden to promote flowering.

* Feed your garden with pelletised manure.

* Last opportunity to prune roses

* Liquid feed sweet peas, daffodils, tulips, pansies, poppies and primulas to prolong flowering.

* Prune and tidy up cannas, pokers, ornamental grasses, cotinus, hydrangea, daylilies. We pulled out and divided a large clump of flax that was getting beyong a joke!

* Dig and divide perennials …replant into reconditioned soil.

* Make sure fruit fly traps are in place by late August.

* Spread compost over your garden to enrich soil.

* Sprinkle wood ash over the garden to promote flowering.

* Rake up fallen camellia flowers and place them onto garden beds. They will inhibit the grown of the lawn if left.

* Feed your garden with pelletised manure.

* Last opportunity to prune roses, except for those in extreme cold (you know who you are!)

* Liquid feed sweet peas, daffodils, tulips, pansies, poppies and primulas to prolong flowering. Clivea could also do with a feed to encourage better blooms.

* Prune cannas, pokers, ornamental grasses - back to ground level - don't be shy. Lightly prune smoke buch, hydrangea and daylilies.

* Dig and divide perennials …replant into reconditioned soil.

* Water tall bearded iris and feed with rose food.

Q. What do you do after you’ve pruned your roses?

Spray with lime sulphur, Pestoil or Eco oil to smother insect eggs and fungal spores. That will mean less spraying in spring for pests. You can’t spray lime sulphur if new leaves have sprouted. Then water on Seamungus or Harvest to activate root growth. Don’t feed with Sudden Impact for Roses until early spring. Don’t mulch yet either, let any winter rains penetrate deep down then mulch with lucerne or sugar cane in spring when it warms up.

Don't remove frost affected leaves, wait until the frosts have finished and prune them off then.

Mulch frost sensitive plants well to protect them against frost. Protect frost senstive plants with a hessian wrap.

Keep on top of weeds by pulling them out manually or pouring boiling water over them.

Harvest fruit from citrus, make excess into jams and marmalades.