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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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Have had wonderful gardener back in and some more cotoneasters have been removed. A bit more running bamboo needs to be attended to before I can put in any replacement plants.
Some more bulbs are flowering - think they might be sparaxis. The plants I initially thought were grape hyacinths are looking more like bluebells.
Picture is not overly clear but this is the bulb that is starting to flower that I think is a scilla.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
very nice @Former-Member 
my little corner is getting more plants in there
soon i will have to find some bigger pots to repot them in
all these are in bloom again in my yard @Smc , @Adge , @Determined , @Appleblossom , @Former-Member ,
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SmcSenior Contributor
Looking good @Shaz51. 🙂
Very much looks like a Scilla @Former-Member. S. peruviana, I'd say. Comes in shades from mid blue to white.
I've relocated the chook pen this morning leaving behind a massive pile of scratched over weeds to mulch the garden with. 🙂 Am currently pulling up more weeds so that they've got bedding to scratch through in their new spot. It's reached that time of year when I'm racing to get them out before they send up flower heads.... the weeds that is, not the chooks. 😉
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Unknown userMember
@Smc 😀🐓🐔
Some of the more suitable replacement trees and plants I am considering include deciduous magnolia, orange blossom (philadelphis sp. - not choysia), viburnum opulus sterile, kerria Japonica, might even try peonies.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
The fella next door ripped out a beautiful Magnolia as well as some roses. He was keen on his real estate and to make money and have it look clean and nice.
Today I planted out indigenous grasses at the zoo and replanted a carpet rose and lambs ears on my own property. Same thing if one gets one's hands dirty. Dirts dirt.
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Unknown userMember
I feel a bit bad getting the majority of the trees on our plot taken out @Appleblossom, most were likely self sown. There is a lovely big bottlebrush that will be staying 😀.
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SmcSenior Contributor
It's not as if you'll be leaving it empty @Former-Member. 🙂
Oooohh I'm aching.... the chooks had better appreciate the many bucketfuls of weed-bedding I gave them. 😛 And I'd better get on to getting plants into the spots I cleared. Bare soil starts to die...
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Unknown userMember
The old lumbago (or plumbago as I call it 😀) often strikes after I have a gardening session @Smc. Looking forward to raised veg beds.
Neighbour got given some strawberry plants which were passed on immediately to me - needed to get some more pots to put them.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, I'm considering the achy muscles as a sign that I am working towards regaining my fitness. 🙂 Gardening has to be one of the most pleasant forms of exercise around.
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