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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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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I just looked up Egyptian Walking Onions.
Yes they do look like fun (funny)...
The Elephant garlic looks like ordinary garlic to me, maybe it's just extra big...
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Good luck with your seeds @eudemonism I hope they come up for you.
I don't plant seeds much anymore, because most of them never germinated.
I have a far better success rate with seedlings, because they're already started (& have a root system).
I have several trees in my backyard that I grew from tiny seedlings - the Red Flowering Gum, the Bull Banksia, Wattles, & other things...
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
@eudemonism, interested to know what seeds you've planted? 
At two extremes, the seeds I'm watching to come up at the moment are assorted beans, and lychees. The lychees are really just as a fun experiment. I don't think they'll grow here in Central Vic, being a large tropical tree, but no harm trying them.
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SmcSenior Contributor
Ha ha- you beat me to it!
Loquats will grow from seeds. Like most seedling trees, they can take up to 10 years to start fruiting, and may be a bit different to the tree they came from.
Stone fruit will certainly grow from seed. You may not get all of it coming up, and when they fruit, you may get brilliant, useless or anything in between. We're currently eating heaps of white peaches that are from a tree I grew from seed, and they are beautiful, juicy and sweet. I got the first single fruit from a seedling apricot tree this year, but I was afraid the birds would beat me to it and picked it too early, so maybe I'll get a better idea of its flavour next year.
I've also got seedling plums that fruit well. Some sweet-sour yellow cherry plums, a slightly undersized blood plum and assorted other cherry plums. I think plums may have a tendency to revert to smaller fruit, but they still taste fine. Except for a couple of the cherry plum sorts, which I may cut down for firewood and tool handles instead. (Fruit trees often have lovely fine grained hard timber.)
Do you get frosts in your area? Stone fruits grow better if they get a few below zero nights, but may grow anyway.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Loquats are easy to germinate from seed @eudemonism I've grown quite a few of them.
Yes, it's about 7 to 10 years until the plants fruit.
Very hard to keep fruit flies out of loquats though, they nearly always get full of grubs.
It was the same with my Red-Flowering Gum & several others - it was over 7 years (from seedling), before I got to see any of those gorgeous red flowers.
Which is a long time to wait, when you don't know what colour the flowers will turn out to be - they can be white, cream, or pink, not always red (at all).
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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