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Gardener’s Calendar We’re largely getting to the stage of making things ready for next year’s garden, while still looking forward to some over-winter colour and looking after the most vulnerable areas.

If you have parts of the lawn which get waterlogged during winter you can spike the area properly now and brush grit or sharp sand into the holes to help improve drainage. You’ll also help the lawn by raking up fallen leaves which block out light and harm grass growth. As much as possible also take piles of leaves away from bushes and shrubs otherwise slugs and snails might use them for overwintering. Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t create wildlife habitats around the garden, just maybe not round your prize perennials.

If you’re wanting to divide and replant perennials which flower before next July – the likes of oriental poppies or lungwort – it’s best to do them now. Replant the same day if you can so they don’t suffer too much shock.

Roses planted in exposed spots, should be pruned now to stop windrock over the winter. Cut off most of this year’s growth and if there’s any sign of blackspot, don’t put cuttings in the compost as it will transmit the disease.

Tulip bulbs should be planted by the end of November. And hopefully there will be a good bit of colour this winter if you plant outdoor cyclamen, Top Tip (not the big showy ones, they’re not usually hardy enough to survive the cold), hellebores and winter pansies.

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The Peak District Eastern Moors especially Big Moor have become well known for their feral populations of red deer – our largest and most magnificent British land mammal. Numbers have grown since the 1980s and with management culling on the core site of Big Moor there are probably somewhere between 200 and 300 animals across the estate. However, in the wider region beyond Big Moor, animals have dispersed over a considerable area; probably in part due to disturbance through the cull, which naturally makes the animals very nervous. Overall, the numbers are still rising and the area over which the red deer now roam has increased eastwards into Sheffield and Dronfield, northwards too, and west towards Eyam. Of course, there is a further western Peak population around the Roaches and the Staffordshire Moors. Historically the other main deer species you might see in and around the Peak was the back (melanistic) herd from Stanton deer park, and down into Matlock and Darley Dale. This is a medieval herd and well documented. However, things are changing and there is another deer now spreading and increasingly commonly reported. This is the roe deer. Occurring mostly in smaller groups than the other two and considerably smaller, roe can be mistaken for young or female red deer and so wherever possible, records are best supported by a photograph. Twenty years ago, roe deer were very uncommon in the Peak but increasingly seen in the eastern lowlands both north and south of the area. Nevertheless, since then the roe deer have spread often unnoticed but to a point where they are now rather common. Tending to feed in fields and to hide away in woodland and scrub, the roe can be around but not detected. They are quite frequently observed around woodland

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