• Tidy the garden of fallen leaves.
• Remove fireworks from bushes and lawn and repair holes in turf.
• Check for hibernating hedgehogs before having bonfires.
• Feed wild birds from now till spring.
  

Lawns

• If it keeps growing due to mild conditions, then keep mowing until first frosts.
• Last chance to top dress.
• Do not leave fallen leaves on the lawn.
  

Containers

• Plant winter pansies, primulas and variegated ivy.
• Remove fading flowers regularly.
• Reduce the length of hanging basket chains to prevent damage from blowing about.

Annuals and biennials

Perennials

• Plant bulbs now.

Roses

• Plant new rose bushes now. These are available as bare root from mail order companies.
• See are rose guide for some ideas.
• Mulch roses after leaf fall.

• Consider adding some trees.
• Arrange to have oversize trees reduced.
• Best time to plant is now for bushes, shrubs and hedging.

Vegetables

• Fix netting over brassicas to fend off pigeons.
• Sow broad beans, Aquadulce Claudia, outside.
• Finish earthing up celery.
• Protect cauliflower heads from frost by tying leaves over curds.

Herbs

• Parsley, try sowing a crop of flat leaf parsley in the greenhouse and transfer it to open ground in early spring.
• Juniper; the seeds are always best planted about now or even December.
  

• In more southern latitudes an unheated green house can be effective in winter allowing over wintering of pelargoniums, storage of dahlias and the housing of many pot plants that are not fully hardy like some fusias and primulars. You can also store and grow half-hardy bedding plants. In more northerly situations the cold greenhouse can be virtually useless except in the mildest winters.
• Lining with bubble wrap can help reduce heat loss.

• Plant new trees, both container-grown and with bare rootstock.
• Prune trained trees ready for spring, tying the branches well.
• Prune apple and pear trees, gooseberry, red and white currant bushes anytime from now till early spring.
• Check greasebands remain sticky.
• Take Blackcurrant cuttings. Cutting should be 10' long - the size of a pencil. Plant upright in a 'V' shaped trench with sharp sand in the bottom, then back fill with soil.