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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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Hi @Former-Member.
Carpet roses are good- unkillable colour.
Got back yesterday from my parents' place. I was right about the pumpkins having disappeared; there were fewer tomatoes than I expected, by the look of it because things have been very dry at their end. The contents of the two homemade self watering pots, which have stayed moist between visits previously, were totally dead and dry. I did get a small potato harvest, enjoyed eating some while there and brought the rest home.
The nice surprise was finding a rockmelon vine that had come up from seeds. When I'd buried the last batch of compostables back in November, I put the rockmelon seeds from one we bought at the supermarket aside, and "planted" them on top, "just in case". Well. there's now 3-4 small melons developing. No idea whether I'll manage to time my next trip to catch them ripe, but ooooh, that would be lovely.
Hubby and daughter were watering my pots in my absence. They were a bit dry when I got back, but that was because Hubby had been seriously knocked back by an ear infection while I was away. He's still sore, but seems to be in recovery.
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