Keep nipping off impatiens seed pods to extend the flowering period.

Go shopping for spring bulbs or choose from mail order/ online bulb catalogues.

Cut back flowering stems of Ginger Lilies to the ground when flowering is complete.

Keep harvesting small zucchini regularly. If you allow the fruit to become large, the plant will cease production.

Insert plastic agricultural piping and drainage pits in areas that are poorly drained in winter.

Asters look wonderful in March. Resist the urge to tie them up and enjoy their natural lax shape instead.

Chrysanthemums and dahlias may need staking. Avoid sawn stakes which can look unsightly. Curled stakes, green bamboo stakes or rustic supports made from trimmed branchlets are all less intrusive.

Purchase windflowers (Anemone x hybrida) in flower and plant in a moist, semi-shaded place where you are happy for them to spread enthusiastically.

Disguise pruned hydrangea plants with a planting of bulbs such as jonquils, daffodils and species gladioli. By the time the hydrangeas are in bud the bulbs will be into their dormant phase.

Disbud chrysanthemum plants (ie reduce the number of buds) if you want larger flowers but fewer of them.

Sow lawn seed or lay turf.

Plant out a strawberry patch.

Fertilise natives such as grevilleas, banksias & hakeas with low phosphorus fertiliser for native gardens.

Repot cyclamen corms into fresh potting mix and fertilise when new growth appears.

Feed chrysanthemums with fortnightly applications of liquid fertiliser.

Add bulb fertiliser when planting spring-flowering bulbs, water and mulch well.

Plant seedlings of French Marigolds to compliment the autumn colours in your garden.

Feed azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias and daphne.

Cut back geraniums and pelargoniums hard and remove dead wood.

Treat water repellent soil with a soil wetting product .

Visit a rose garden where the roses are named and order varieties that you like for delivery in winter.

Purchase Sasanqua camellias in flower.

Feed and water the garden well to take full advantage of the great autumn gardening weather.

Plant out layered carnations.

Keep dead-heading cosmos to extend the flowering period.