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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
Yay @Former-Member. 🙂
Meanwhile, I've been known to ask for other people's green waste. I've never yet had "too much" mulch/compost, and eagerly accept anything that will work as one or the other.
Then there's this garden, where the owner started a garden maintenance business specifically to get access to large amounts of lawn clippings and other "wastes" to build up his soil.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Council has fortnightly organic waste collection --- cool @Former-Member 
hello @Smc , @Appleblossom , @Maggie , @Adge
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Hi @Shaz51 The Council Rates Bill arrived yesterday.
Not so cool...
Adge
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SmcSenior Contributor
Busy out in the garden today. Some prosaic stuff like weeding (and feeding it to the animals).
Cleared Jerusalem Artichokes out of a patch of not-great soil, some to replant elsewhere, some to eat. Put an old piece of corrugated over the spot to smother out the persistent weeds, and started stacking firewood on top of it. By the time that's seasoned and been used up, the persistent weeds should be history and that spot ripe for soil improvement.
Planted a couple of caulis, columbines and Primula obuntica in one spot, and some out of date seeds in another. (Rose pink Nigella, wallflowers and Flanders Poppies. Planted thickly so if they germinate well I'll be busy transplanting... if they germinate poorly, at least something's there.)
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Unknown userMember
Have a lot of tidying up to do before I can contemplate plantings @Smc although I do need to attend to the plant divisions that I brought with us.
@Shaz51 there are a few pots with succulents here.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Why not? 😄
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Hee hee, that's a Good One @Smc
Adge
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Unknown userMember
Windy with showers here too @Shaz51 but managed to fill the garden waste bin with prunings. Neighbour is out, was hoping to see if I could fill her bin too ...
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SmcSenior Contributor
Awwww, I wish I was your neighbour @Former-Member. I'd take the lot off your hands. 😄
Below... from a few years ago. I filled up this "besser block bed" with well packed down garden wastes and topped it off with soil. Got a very good crop of beans off it a few months later.
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Unknown userMember
Starting with the cotoneasters @Smc , wouldn't want to inflict those seeds on anyone.
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