Life in a Cottage Garden 5 - Autumn
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Plantswoman Carol Klein shares with us a year in her garden at Glebe Cottage in North Devon.

With the onset of September and October, the atmosphere in the garden is rich with the smell of ripening fruit and wood smoke.

It's harvest time so there are seeds to collect, pricking out to be completed and tidying to be done. Carol's daughters, Annie and Alice, are home to help decide the fate of the cankered apple tree. And Carol has to prepare the garden for visitors to her Open Garden Scheme day.

As October comes to an end the leaves turn russet, amber and scarlet and the garden is visibly going to sleep. Winter is on its way