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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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DeterminedSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Determined, I've got some lilies on the way, but they're not quite up to flowering yet. 🙂
I uncovered the tamarillo plant that I encased in fibreglass sheet and shadecloth over winter. It has heaps of new shoots on it. Maybe fruit this year! 😄
Hubby did a great job of keeping up the water while I was away. I came home to flowers everywhere. They're my living "birthday pressie", because I bought them with last year's birthday and Christmas pressie money.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Great to hear you are back @Smc have been thinking of.you and family. Still waiting on pics.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Here are some more from Darlings garden.
It has really come alive in the past week.
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Loving your pictures @Determined @Smc
Our lilliums have buds too, still a little way off flowering.
Mr Darcy mowed today.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
I intended to enter this into a photo comp but when I was looking at all of the entries yesterday realised that I uploaded the wrong pic, same flower but wrong version 
Love the lighting and water in this pic. I have it as the backdrop on my PC screes as I find it calming 
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Ooh you've got an Alstromeria (Princess Lilly) @Determined The 4th picture (of 4).
My favourite.
Mine died out...
Adge
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
@Adge the garden is my darlings thing, I just like to take photos.
Darling knows what everything is but I'm a bit challenged when it comes to naming plants. Since we have had some rain her garden is really alive with colour which makes darling happy.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I'm glad @Determined My garden & flowers makes me happy too - when I actually spend time out in it.
My neighbours are so noisy (screaming, loud music, banging things) - that I don't feel comfortable in my own backyard.
It's as if the neighbours have taken over my own private space (with constant noise).
I jus did a re-check - I do have one Mauve/Purple flowered Alstromeria (Princess Lilly) left.
It's spread out to cover about one metre wide.
It was the lovely Orange-flowered one that I lost.
Adge
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