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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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outlanderSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member- rogue gladioli sound a lot more exciting than regular Dame Edna ones. 😉
I raided a garden department today. Came home with chives, thyme, kale, larkspurs, Iceland Poppies, a potted chrysanthemum and some ranunculus corms. I fumbled the poppy punnet and had to scoop the poor plants back into it, so I'll need to pot them on pronto.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member I used to have masses of ranunculas flowering in a front bed, but they gradually died out. At the moment, I'm growing most of my new arrivals in pots, and they're doing pretty well. I will move back to beds eventually, but like you, I got too flattened to do much out there for a while, and the beds are very neglected and weedy. Now that the weather's cooling down, I might have half a chance of getting some parts shipshape before winter hits.
I think the poppies will make it. They're a fairly sturdy family. 
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Oh wow, that's lovely @Former-Member
Very inventive & creative, I must say - having emus or ostriches as flower pots...
Adge
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I love Ranunculas @Smc I used to grow lots of them in pots (many years ago)...
Poppies are great too.
I have a crop of wild poppies that come up each year, in the front garden (a Salmon-pink colour).
I carefully collected the seed from them (each year), & planted it - until I had more of them...
Adge
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Adge, I'm guessing they may be this type? Papaver dubium. It's a common weed, but very pleasant. I get them coming up in our garden too.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yes it's probably technically a weed @Smc
But there is never more than a few of them here, so I wouldn't consider it very weedy.
I just think they're pretty, & any plant that's drought-tolerant & has nice flowers (apart from noxious weeds) is welcome...
Adge
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
oooooh @Former-Member Thanks for the metrognome!
I have been whizzing around the metro lately with a lady who is very tight with her time ... you must have known at some deep archetypal level ...
My son will be away for a week and I think I will head back to the garden then. It is looking a bit sad atm.
Love the saffron pics and background. @Smc @Adge
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