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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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SmcSenior Contributor
Ok, I'm favourably impressed at how well Mum and Dad's front garden has handled my severe cutting back 🙂 A couple of fairly inconsequential and common things have died, but the correa, thryptomene and buddleia have put out fresh shoots, as had the big Bird of Paradise plant. Some self seeded weedy shrubs that I cut right back have done so too. Oh well.
It's still odd seeing it so relatively bare. If I lived anywhere even slightly close by, I'd be planting some neglect-tolerant but neat-ish plants to fill it in. Things like sedums (which are already in other parts of the garden). But given the block will probably be bulldozed bare for redevelopment.... not much point. 😞
Arrived home here as it was getting dark. Will get to check our garden tomorrow.
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That is one thing I love about gardening @Smc . You do a bit of work and the results last a long time. Unlike housework where you tidy a room and a couple of days later .... yikes.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Ummm... sort of, @Former-Member. This morning's wander around the garden reveals that some of the "late planted" tomatoes have been bitten off, possibly by the wallabies. Whew, they must have been hungry to bother eating those! But there's other untouched ones that are in flower, and hopefully have baby cherry toms forming.
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Mr Darcy's brother is helping dig in some tubs which I am hoping will help restrict root spread of some proposed brambleberry plantings.
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@alwaysangry
Come and meet some other gardeners in this social discussion thread.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Liliums - one of my favourite flowers/ plants.
I used to grow them, for many years (in pots).
Eventually my Liliums all died out.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Phalenopsis (or Moth) Orchids.
One of my all-time favourite Orchids.
I had a succession of them in pots.
They're touchy, didn't keep them going for long.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Crucifix Orchids (Epidendron).
I should get some more of these.
I used to grow them (had them for years).
Unlike many other Orchids - they can happily grown in your garden bed (ordinary soil), in almost full-sun.
Other orchid types mostly need a bark mix (not soil) to grow in - & only tolerate shade, not full sun.
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