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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
So wherabouts (in general terms) are you @Daughterdid? 🙂
Yes, lavender can be grown from seed, but theseedlings are tiny and fiddly, and so are a bit tricky to grow. Cuttings are the more usual way of propogating lavenders, if you can get hold of some.
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An aunt of mine many years ago grew a tamarilo from seed @Smc she lived in Adelaide suburbs at the time which is frost free. Do you grow edibles @Adge?
@Daughterdid do you preserve any of your produce?
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I'm certainly interested in edibles @Former-Member Especially fruit trees.
No, I haven't grown any for many years.
Except for my Lilly Pilly tree, which has tiny tasty pithy fruits on it.
It's just been cut down low, so I won't be getting any fruits on it for a long time.
I used to grow Cape Goosberries years ago, but they all died out.
They were one of my Grandmother's favourites, she used to make jam from the ones she grew (in Brisbane).
Adge
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I have one surviving Rosemary (I used to have 2), I love Rosemary & it's drought-hardy.
I don't eat it though.
I have 2 small Olive trees, but it will be many years before I see any olives. They take a lot of soaking, before you can eat them.
I have a small Lemon tree, maybe too small to fruit.
Lemons fall on my shed from the neighbour's tree, so sometimes I use those lemons.
My back neighbour grows lovely Blueberries, & sometimes she gives me a few.
Adge
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
@Adge, @Former-Member, @Smc, @Daughterdid
my parsley has not made it -- maybe too wet
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Oh that's a shame @Shaz51
You just reminded me - I grew parsley for many years (it kept self-seeding itself).
But it all died out, several years ago.
Adge
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
have not tried again yet @Adge, but I am going to plant my succulents
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Adge@Shaz51I have a forest of parsley... I brought seeds from the Italian Parsley I was growing at our previous address with me when we moved here, 18 years ago, and it has been very cheerfully self seeding all over the place since then. 🙂
It's quite pretty when it flowers. I use it in flower arrangements like a greenish gypsophlia.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
wow, @Smc, they love your climate
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Excellent @Smc That's what mine used to do, for years (before it all died out).
Mine was Italian Parsley too, not the crinkly-leaved one.
Adge
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