Fiona’s patch

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

REAL readers' gardens!

Nurture existing plants and see if you can snaffle some bargains!

IF your garden is anything like mine, most of the borders and pots have peaked by this time, shifting from full-on florals to fading foliage. There are a few late-to-the-party dahlias, the cosmos are

Vibrant blooms for end-of-season splendour

If I could grow only one rose, this would be it. Fine, coppery foliage on thornless stems form a wiry, many-limbed shrub. Small, tapered buds are held in loose sprays and open into single flowers of s