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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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Shaz51Senior Contributor
will have a look my @Former-Member 
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I have started doing a garden journal for the new home.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Lovely @Former-Member xxxx
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Adge, our soil here is clay loam, but not really fertile. "Goldfields" soil. Black reactive clay in the valleys, yellow-red clay up the top of the hills. But the good thing is, the same leaf mould that helps sandy soil hold moisture and nutrients improves the texture and drainage of clay, and the humic acid unlocks the minerals in it. 😄 It's a long term job improving the soil, but nearly 20 years down the track, I'm getting the hang of what works here, and starting to see a difference.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yep, organic matter is good stuff @Smc Both for clay & sandy soils.
It's all grey sand here, actually "water repellent".
Until you improve the soil here with lots of compost etc - the water just pools, & runs off the sand.
Adge
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SmcSenior Contributor
I believe the term is "hydrophobic" @Adge? I've found that sometimes parts of ours goes that way if it gets very dry.
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Got in a short weeding session today but nearly filled the green bin with prunings from a branch that had been caught in a tree from a previous tidy up.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Fed the chooks and guinea pigs some more of our weeds today. Excavated out the crummy soil from a spot where I want to grow a pear tree, and added lots of good soil and manure/bedding to the site. The tree's one I got bare rooted from a mail order nursery, but I'm a bit concerned. The trunk below the graft looks alive, but above the graft it looks dried out, possibly dead? Will be watching it hopefully to see if it proves me wrong. Hope so.
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Needed some thyme for a recipe today. 1st stop garden centre, mission successful, a nice bushy specimen purchased.
Plant will be added to potted collection after its hair cut 😀.
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Filled the neighbours green bin today with running bamboo prunings - liberated the lemon tree in the process 🍋🍋🍋.
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