Healing from grief in the garden

REAL readers' gardens!

After summer’s golden show, gardener Poppy Okotcha surrenders to the slumbering wind-down of autumn in the second of our seasonal celebrations

It may be September but there’s plenty of life in the garden yet!

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

FOR JOHN KEATS, AUTUMN WAS THE SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS. HERE, THE COUNTRY LIVING TEAM AND FRIENDS HIGHLIGHT WHAT THIS TIME OF YEAR MEANS TO THEM – FROM CRAFTING WREATHS TO BOTTLING SLOE GIN

EVERY time I smell the sweet scent of September air, I am transported back to Alderley Cottage. I am walking up the garden path strewn with grass and twigs towards a faded blue painted door with a bro