Graham Porter’s Gardening: Jobs for the week

Nov 14 2009 by Linzi Nicholson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

1 Non-invasive perennials – More plants for you to search out that are well behaved. Cortaderia selloana – choose the variegated form for a stunning architectural plant that stays where it is put. Corydalis flexuosa – the blue form of its more invasive wild relative. Crambe cordifolia – a mass of white foaming flowers in early summer that forms a sizeable clump but does no spread. Crocosmia – choose named cultivars to be sure that your garden is not taken over. Cynoglossum nervosum, with its azure-blue flowers will perform well in well-drained fertile soils.

2 Soft fruit for 2010 – ask at your local garden centre about soft fruit bushes and canes such as raspberries, blackberries, black red and white currants and of course gooseberries. It is good time of year to get these planted with some well-rotted compost or manure in the soil and then you and your family can look forward to a delicious summer pudding or raspberries and ice cream on the patio in mid July, in the warmth of the summer sun.