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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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AnastasiaSenior Contributor
Huge day spent pruning and weeding, green bin full plus two piles for next two empties. Secateurs won though, very sore but happy 🙂
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SmcSenior Contributor
Oooh yow @Anastasia! So I hope that's the last secateur work you'll need to do for a few days. Those will need to heal. (But well done.)
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Unknown userMember
Yikes @Anastasia , hope the blisters heal soon.
A girlfriend and I got out into the garden for about an hour and got a good lot of weeding done. Earlier we had stopped at a garden centre and we picked up 4x potted colour (2x zinnias, a white dianthus and white petunia) along with an advanced punnet (4 pack) of lime petunias. Got all of these planted as well as the yellow/orange cosmos seedlings which we raised from seed and a filipendula which has been in a pot for a while (brought with us when we moved)..
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Ouch my @Anastasia ❤❤
@Former-Member , @Smc , @Determined , @Adge , @Emelia8 , @Bunniekins
Trying hard to fit in mum's garden care in
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Unknown userMember
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Unknown userMember
Had the pleasure of picking a bowl of strawberries from our garden 😁.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Very few strawberries here @Former-Member, but I have been picking redcurrants and sour cherries for jam making. 🙂
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Unknown userMember
A wander around the plant section after coffee with friends at the garden centre cafe resulted in the purchase of some punnets of cosmos, snapdragons and lobelia as well as a lemon coloured dahlia. Our front cottage garden is starting to fill out nicely.
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Unknown userMember
Picked enough strawberries today to make a small batch of jam using the bread machine.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Oh, the Bread machine can also cook up Jam @Former-Member
I didn't know those machines were "Multi-Purpose".
How useful....
Adge
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