You don't have to prune these plants in autumn

To protect the garden from snow and frost, many hobby gardeners want to make their little kingdom winterproof in autumn.

However, you can save yourself some work.

Before winter arrives, some gardens are once again busy: the lawn is mowed, vegetable patches dug up or fruit trees cut back.

However, you can safely postpone some of this to spring - not only will you save yourself tedious work, nature will also thank you if you take your garden care a little easier in autumn.

No pruning necessary in autumn: With these plants you can wait until spring

Many hobby gardeners use autumn to cut back shrubs and perennials.

One of the reasons for this is that the

allows strong interventions on old wood and radical cuts between October 1 and the end of February.

While pruning won't harm most plants, it's not necessarily a must either.

Klaus Diehl from the Hessian Garden Academy lists in a blog post which plants you don't need to prune back in autumn, for example:

• Fruit trees

• Roses

• Grasses

• Hedges

• Perennials (except short-lived perennials)

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Less work in the garden - more shelter for animals and insects

It is also optically worthwhile to leave some plants standing in autumn: especially evergreen perennials such as the bergenia, with their reddish leaf

offer a

in autumn

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do not have to be pruned either - they provide shelter for birds, mammals and insects.

The same applies to

: while the fallen leaves should be removed from grass to avoid harmful fungi, and sidewalks should be cleared due to the risk of slipping, they can safely remain under trees and hedges as a mulch layer, as the Bavarian Garden Academy on its website writes.

Here it ensures a lively soil life, supports humus formation and supplies nutrients.

Apart from that, piles of leaves provide winter quarters as well as food for soil organisms and microorganisms.

So if you want to do nature a favor, you can also just be lazy about gardening in the fall.