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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
@Faith-and-Hope... pretty. There's a little bit of everything there.
Garden has survived the heat of the day- yay. Even the freshly planted sunflower seedlings seem to be OK. I'd watered pot plants and a few young plants yesterday, and went around this evening to refresh anything that looked a bit heatstruck. A persimmon I planted last year was a bit wilty. They really don't like hot wind. But I think it will pull through.
One of the bunnies had tipped over her water bowl at some point. She was over in a flash for a long drink the moment I refilled it.
Fruit trees are starting to ripen. Not really heavy crops this year, and the birds and possums are racing me for what's there, but we've had some apricots and cherry plums, a few blood plums (more coming of all those) and the first peaches are nearly ripe. We had redcurrants at Christmastime (I still have some in the fridge waiting for me to turn them into jelly or something). Elderberries are getting there, and there's half grown apples on the trees- also being sampled by possums who have no idea about waiting until they're ripe. Grrr!
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Sounds beautiful @Smc ......
Wild rabbits all over the place at my Dad’s .... digging up the lawn looking for moisture from heavy dew.
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Just thought I'd drop by here and mention my own pride at growing tomatoes! I was able to add them to a salad and everything!
Loving the healing effect of a garden at any size, shape or level of green thumb here 
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'S'funny... I've got a fairly substantial amount of space available. We're on a 1/3 acre town block, and buildings take up maybe 1/3 of that, the rest I consider fair game. But finding time to prepare planting areas is another question, so this year I'm trying growing a lot of things in pots that I'd usually put in the ground. I've just come in from planting another one with a Stevia cutting, a red leaved Heuchera, some Corsican Mint (tiny leaves and intense peppermint scent and flavour), and a native celery that doesn't look really healthy. I'm hoping it'll pick up with a bit of space to put its roots out.
I've got other pots with the big Stevia plant that the cutting came from, basil, angelica, lovage, strawberries, pineapple sage, celery and more... most seem to be doing well.
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