Pot up strawberry runners and baby plants in containers storing them in the green house or a deep cold frame for an early spring start. Now is a good time to sow seeds of plants that are happy to over winter outdoors. Included in this group are annual poppies, larkspur, cosmos, cleome, nigella, annual baby's breath, alpine strawberries, pansies and others. Sow early flowering indoor plants under cover. In late fall collect and sow seed of hardy roses, shrubs, and perennials.
Early fall is a good time to divide fibrous rooted perennials and shrubs.
Divide mat growing rock garden plants and bog or water garden plants. Herbs that form rizomatis clumps should also be divided. You can increase your bulb supply by chipping the bulb to encourage growth of new plants the following year. In early to mid fall take semi ripe cuttings of trees, climbing plants and herbs. Take leaf bud cuttings of shrubs, and cuttings from the basal clump of mat forming rock garden plants.