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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
I married a good 'un... 🙂
I was out with our town garden club today. Hubby walked me down to the meeting point, and I commented on the way that I'd be missing out on salvaging the loose straw left over from the straw bales used for seating at the weekend's event.
Came home just now with a restrained bagful of purchases (a delphinium, an anthemis daisy and a bergamot plant) and he took me out the back door to show me our small trailer filled up with straw he'd collected for me. 
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yes flowers are cheerful bright, & definitely are a source of joy @Former-Member
I've always been a big fan of flowers...
Long before I did my Grad Dip in environmental management, & worked as a horticulturist.
I was striking cuttings & germinating seeds (eg palm trees) when I was 10 or so.
I love Heritage (Old World) Roses, I still have one (Lamarque).
Liliums, orchids, Hibiscus, Carnations - you name it, I like it...
Theyre even better, when (if) I've grown them myself.
There's hardly a flower that I don't like - though the big ones do seem to catch my eye more, they're more noticeable...
Adge
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, I'm not much of a tea drinker, but bergamot has uses beyond it's most famous one. 🙂 And the flowers are lovely, both visually as colourful pompoms, and as a sweet "edible flower" treat.
@Adge The only "old" rose I've got in our garden is a huge vigorous spring flowering pink one. I think I've remembered correctly that it's Anais Segales. I love the very fragrant ones. Oddly, I Iost my sense of smell some years ago, but can still taste everything normally, which is most unusual- so nowadays I enjoy my fragrant roses as a flavouring instead, in cordials, jams, icecream and suchlike. We've got a beautiful fragrant deep red one that was in the garden when we moved here, possibly Papa Meilland. I'm not sure the flower formation is exactly right, but definitely a similarly intense perfume. There's also a pink one that I'm pretty sure is Queen Elizabeth. Not as fragrant/flavoursome but not bad. A nice unnnamed scarlet rose, a Bloomfields Abundance, and a few more modern varieties- Just Joey, Camille Pissaro (a stripey rose) and Eye of the Tiger, a single yellow with a red eye... but these last few are not much for fragrance; just pretty.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Those sound like lovely roses @Smc I remember & like them all, especially Just Joey...
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SmcSenior Contributor
Checked the weather forecast last night... we're not a big enough town to get our very own forecast, but usually forecasts for nearby places are close enough, and it was single digits but not frosty... this morning our max/min thermometer says it got down to 1 deg. Ah... ooops.
Despite living in a frost zone, I'm crazy enough to have a few plants which really belong in much warmer places. They seem to be OK, but I'll take this morning as a "you have been warned" and try to get them into shelter before we hit zero or minus-something.
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Your frost warning is a reminder for me to attend to my spring flowering bulbs @Smc, found a collection of anemone bulbs whilst decluttering, don't know if they will take but worth a try.
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