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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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@Adge
I love liliums and phalenopsis orchids. I have an orchid an old neighbour gave me which has kept going for 4 years, it and others I bought need repotting in spagnum moss, will need to check YouTube or the like as to how to go about this. I got told an easterly window position was best, so far so good.
Have a few different liliums which I put in ground and am hoping they will come up again.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Adge, we got a Phaelenopsis as a present, but it died out. When it started looking sickly, I passed it over to my sister for TLC (she's the orchid enthusiast/expert) but it was already too far gone.
Had Crucifix Orchids in pink, purple and orange when we moved here, but they died in the frost.
I do have some liliums in pots. Two pots of orange ones bought as markdown plants, and a white Madonna Lily. Both are doing well at present. When they die down again I'm hoping to divide them and try half of each in the garden.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, I splurged some unspent Christmas present money on three packs of tulips last week. They'll be part of this year's garden-brightening material. 🙂
I'm trying to add a few different varieties of tulips and other bulbs every year. Tulips in particular are one of the sweeteners of living in a frosty area.
The "Fringed Duet" pack doesn't name the varieties, but the most likely candidates are "Honeymoon" for the white one, and "Fabio" for the red and yellow.
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Very nice @Smc 🌷🌷🌷
The fringed tulips are very pretty.
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Lovely to hear your veggie patch is up and running @Determined
Our garden was looking better than when we left to go to the big smoke for Mr Darcy's surgery thanks to some weeding and watering done by a few friends , another blessing was a punnet of snow peas that I was given yesterday.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Nice that friends were able.to tend the garden for you @Former-Member .
Darling has something eating her seedlings. I'm thinking rats by the bite marks. On tomorrow's agenda is some cages made from bird wire.
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@Sheila wondering how you a and your patch are coming along.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
The Snails (very large, in large numbers) have been enjoying my Garden very much.
Far more than I have - seen by the amount of munching they've been doing.
The weather is cooler, these past few day - & it's rained lightly today.
So the snails have come out of hiding, in droves - probaby 100 or more (no exaggeration).
I've just spent quite a while, finding & squishing more than 50 snails - before it got too dark to see anything.
They were on their way, up my pots & shrubs - to munch everything.
Yuk, what a mess. I'm all covered in snail Goo (shoes & hands).
Adge
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AdgeSenior Contributor
My Ogre Ears (Crassula) grew too big & heavy, for itself.
1m high, with a 10cm thick main stem - it collapsed (at base), & broke off.
Most of the plant (not connected to roots) is shrivelling up.
So I've planted several broken pieces, in the hope of striking new
Crassula plants.
That has worked in the past....
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