As autumn gathers momentum, it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Monty Don has some timely advice on what to do. Carol Klein meets a nurseryman in Herefordshire and together they indulge in the seasonal beauty of the Japanese maple. And there's the next instalment of Rachel de Thame's cut flower garden diary as we join her back in April when she plants up Verbena bonariensis and takes inspiration from a glorious cutting garden at Parham House in West Sussex.