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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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SheilaSenior Contributor
Hi @Former-Member ,
Not too bad thanks. Unfortunately I overwatered a cucumber plant, so am back to sqare one with some seeds now. My spinach and asparagus are going great guns though.
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Unknown userMember
Been a quiet week in the garden. Quite a few more of our veg seeds have germinated.
Some previously heavily pruned plants have flowered confirming they are spirea.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Hello @Former-Member , @Sheila , @Smc , @Appleblossom , @eudemonism
have been getiing the plants through woolies for mum and me
BUT mr shaz did not get me anymore new ones today 
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Oh well @Shaz51
Can you divide and propagate from what you already own? I have not bought any plants for a few years. Setting up a range of things to take in and barter at a local market. Apple trees and iris etc ...
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
ah haaaa that is a great idea my @Appleblossom , i will do that 
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Honestly @Shaz51 I have so much green stuff on my tiny little block. Flowers galore and my stuff keeps spreading over all the verges in the court. Have a new nature strip I am taking over .... atm ... Ah ah ... thats is my dreadful wicked witch taking over the world by storm secret .... hee hee ... Cant help it.
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Unknown userMember
I tend to get plants that are dividable, I usually start with just one plant and gradually divvy off so I end up with a mass display @Appleblossom @Shaz51.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
i think mr shaz thinks i have enough plants @Former-Member , @Appleblossom
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AdgeSenior Contributor
One never has enough plants @Shaz51 It's a shame that Mr Shaz thinks so.
Inevitably some (or many in my case) die & need replacing.
Plus it's a matter of distributing them - you can always (or mostly) fit some more in somewhere....
Adge
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Unknown userMember
Perhaps we have not stayed in a place long enough to "finish" a garden @Shaz51 @Appleblossom, not that one ever does, they constantly evolve.
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