All gardeners urged to plant these flowers in October to see beautiful spring blooms

Gardeners are being urged to plant a specific flower now to see beautiful blooms come spring.

Making your garden a beautiful place through spring comes through hard work now as a gardening expert shares what you should be doing through the autumn to prepare your plants for next year.

While it may be a little too early to plant tulips, it is the perfect time to prepare the borders of your garden or pots too.

Planting the flower three times deeper than the bulb will make for a perfect bloom come spring, with October deemed the perfect time to begin preparing the garden.

Gardener Michael Griffiths has since shared the tasks which you should be carrying out in your outdoor space now.

He took to TikTok and shared which plants you should be planting, including when to begin preparing herbs and how to get your garden in perfect condition for winter.

Griffiths wrote: "You don't want to plant tulips yet but hyacinth, crocus, daffodils, and alliums will look fantastic in your borders or pots. You just need to plant them 3x the depth of the bulb.

"This is the last month you want to aerate, scarify and reseed your lawn. You can start collecting seeds from hardy perennials for next year. Get your herb ready for winter by cutting them back now.

"Raise pots up onto feet to prevent them from waterlogging over winter."

Further instructions were offered on house plants, with Griffiths suggesting they need watering less frequently over the next few months.

He added: "You can start watering house plants less frequently, give them a clean and you might want to move them away from cold windowsills.

"Clean out the greenhouse to get rid of debris and let in the weaker autumn daylight. Install a water butt, to make good use of autumn rain."

One final note from Griffiths confirmed the need to move potted citrus plants inside over winter, but maintaining a coolness. He wrote: "Finally, move potted citrus plants inside over winter, keeping them cool but frost free."

A gardener has asked why it is not the right time to plant tulips in the garden, to which Griffiths has responded with a terrifying reason.

But a reason not to plant tulips now was because they could develop "tulip fire," which is a fungal disease in plants which makes leaves brown and brings rot to the stem.

Griffiths wrote: "If they're planted when it's too warm they can get a disease called tulip fire. Best to wait until late October or early November."