Blooms for birds (as well as bees)

With expert broadcaster, author and long-standing AG columnist, Anne Swithinbank

When their beautiful blooms are over, these plants keep on giving all the way through winter

Mimic their natural behaviour and get them going now to flower in spring

Plenty of autumn bloomers are ideal food and shelter for those left on the wing

It’s a simple and effective way to grow more of your favourite flowers for free next year

In September the garden is brimming with seeds – poppies, eryngiums, geraniums, lunarias, sanguisorbas, salvias, corydalis, sanguisorbas, gillenias and most of the grasses. Everything is there, just w