Think of your autumn gardening as kind of a redecorating project – only with plants rather than furnishings Article content

Most gardeners – city or otherwise – carry within them an internal vision of the perfectly planned garden, where everything blooms profusely and in perfectly timed succession, day after day, from the first snowdrops peeking through the snow to the last brilliantly coloured, elegantly dying foliage in late October. Article content

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In these idealized, exquisite Elysian fields, there are no bare spots, no plants struggling to hang on for one more spindly day, and no giant monsters bullying the neighbours into submission.

In real life, the only gardeners I know who have come even close to that ideal are able (and inclined) to spe

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