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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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My Red-Flowering Gum (native to SW WA), that I planted as a tiny tubestock over 10 years ago - it's now 4 metres high. Won't get much bigger, it's a small tree.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Keen to get out with the wipper snipper and ckear the fence line @Former-Member.
Have quite a bit of work to do around our yard, has been too wet since I finished uni though. Next week is looking promising.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Lantana doing well, I will have to get on to that before council starts hassling me about it. So much to do it is hard to know where to start.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Like this @Former-Member ..... 😊
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SmcSenior Contributor
Still attempting to reboot my neglected veg garden. I put some pumpkin seeds in yesterday. Planted way too close, but Ill do the Chinese thing of picking the young shoots of any surplus ones to use as a green veg, and leave two or three to grow out into full sized vines.
Bought a pot of basil which has been divided into five clumps and planted into a bigger pot. I'm trying out a few edibles in pots this year, including some strawberries and herbs.
I've got some sunflower, cosmos and echinacea seeds soaking to hopefully pre-sprout them before putting into the garden, so that they've got a tiny head start.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yes there's been some carnage here too @Former-Member
My garden service people came on Tuesday, for the first time in over 4 months. They did a lot of whipper-snippering.
They also removed a big dead bottlebrush branch, which had fallen over the fence (from the neighbour's yard), & was lying on my clothesline. It was too heavy & big for me to remove.
Plus pruned spiny branches off the canary island date palm.
Pot plants not faring well, as I'm home too late too tired & don't water them.
Adge
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