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A SOS to any green thumbs out there
I have always found gardening to be therapeutic and it has given me great joy. However, after a major crisis with Mr Darcy's health I have not had been able to get back into it. Have other gardeners suffered from a similar hiatus and how have you recovered and got going again?
Darcy
PS have a spot that needs filling any recommendations for a 1m high cool climate white flower plant?
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Maggie, the purple ones are Tibouchinas, and I've seen them growing in Victoria. They don't like really hard frost, but if you can give them a bit of winter shelter, they're fine. 🙂
I haven't seen them in my really frosty part of Victoria. We usually get a few-4s over winter, sometimes colder.
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Smc They probably wouldn’t grow where I am then, we can do a -6 and more, two -2 this week. I’m in tassie, not complaining, I prefer the cold to heat any day.
I’m hoping to have a garden when I move, I miss it. Love the dirt on my hands and elsewhere, then the blooms and smells.
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Unknown userMember
In situ in new home and there are a few plants with weed potential out there including a fair few cotoneasters ... yikes.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
A few hours pottering in garden and transplanted an Ausslie bush today. Hope it survives and thrives thru spring.
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SmcSenior Contributor
I "rescued" a couple of punnets of purple sprouting broccoli from a garden centre reductions table last night. 20c per punnet instead of $4.50, and a night sitting in a tray of water has them looking good. 🙂 Now to find space for 20 or so broccoli plants...??
I grew some a few years back, and had a bit of fun making a "bouquet" of assorted freshly picked veggies. 😛 Purple broccoli in the moddle, green broccoli shoots, cabbage side shoots, curly kale and a few fennel fronds.
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Unknown userMember
Had a super quick scout around the two garden centres, Mr Darcy suggested the garden could wait until house renovations done ... I don't think so ... even to get the shed repaired two or three cotoneasters will have to go.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
ohhh sorry @Maggie the purple ones are Tibouchinas,, thank you @Smc 
Hello @Former-Member , @Appleblossom , @Ali11
Thinking of buying some more succulents but mr shaz`z memery of going to the plant store has been blocked 
my Sil sent me a photo idea with a teapot
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, our place had several full grown cotoneasters when we moved here. We found goats to be a very effective method of erradication. 😛 They aren't suitable for all settings though, and are not good companions for fruit trees.
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MaggieSenior Contributor
I really like that idea @Shaz51 the teapot. Looks great.
I saw my first daffodil this year. @Former-Member @Smc @Appleblossom @Ali11
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
looks good aye @Maggie
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