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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
sounds good @Former-Member , really need todo mum`s gardens
hello and hugs @Smc , @Determined , @Adge , @Former-Member
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Unknown userMember
Will be a slow process @Shaz51
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SmcSenior Contributor
Got some gardening time in today- yay! 🙂
Three of my "belated" tomato plants out. They're "Sweet Bite" cherry toms. I checked, and they bear in about 70 days, so with the growth that they've already got on them, I'll hopefully be picking them in March. That's late, but not too late.
Planted a bunch of pea seeds around the base of each one. They're to use as salad greens in 5-6 weeks time.
Still got to water the pot plants, they're looking a bit parched, but having a breather first.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Sweet Bite Cherry tomatoes @Smc Yum, very tasty they are...
I just hosed the aviary roofs (it's hot) - birds were very happy about that, they lined up for a light shower....
Adge
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
very hard to get gardeners up here @Former-Member
cut out a dead tree from or yard today , sooo sad
it was heathly for 10 years and then that was it @Adge , @Smc , @Determined , @Former-Member
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yep @Shaz51 I'm so sad to see my Almond tree gone (cut down 1 week ago).
It died a few months ago, 45 years old it was (healthy until then).
The termites ate it from inside the trunk.
Now there will be no Black Cockatoos anymore (not ever) - they only came once a year (to my back yard), specifically to the almond tree (for the almonds).
Then they sat up high in the almond tree, tweeted & had a big party.
They splatted chewed almonds all over the ground - I loved seeing & hearing them.
Now the black cockies wont come anymore, because there is no almond tree to come for....
Adge
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
yes @Adge , we had a very big umbella tree which the parrotts loves the berries on it , but it got blown down in the last cyclone and mr shaz had to cut it all up and put it on the footpath for the council to take away
@Former-Member, @Smc , @Determined , @Former-Member
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Unknown userMember
@Smc lovely you got in a bit of gardening today.
@Shaz51 @Adge
Trees dying = ☹️
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
yes @Former-Member , mum`s and my 10 year old tree just starting dying for some reason
they say it is a southern growing tree and up here they have a lifescan
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SmcSenior Contributor
We had one of our apricot trees die this year. Last year the Very Hungry Possums srtipped its leaves until it was almost bare. It started regrowing this year, but was too depleted to make it.
I've got another one growing in a different spot. It's only been in a few years, so only had a few fruit this year, but it looks healthy. I won't replant where the dead one is. What with this fire season, I've decided it's possibly best keeping the trees a little further from the house. I'm not so concerned that I'd cut down a healthy one, but if one dies, its replacement can go somewhere further out.
A flowering cherry nearby is looking sickly too. It may just be reaching "end of life" or perhaps a hard prune might bring out fresh growth.
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