What to do within the garden this week: Gather leaves and dig up the daises
Continue gathering fallen leaves, adding them to the compost bin or bagging them up separately, dampening them and leaving them six to twelve months to make leaf mould.
Dig up and divide Michaelmas daisies and other late-flowering perennial asters once the entire flowers are over. Most other perennials are better divided in spring.
Tuck a generous mulch across the base of hardy fuchsias, phygelius and some other slightly tender shrubs regrow from the bottom if the tops are killed by severe frost.