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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
Ah... maybe I should restate that for the faint of heart...
Later this year, I'll be 21 years and 10590 days old. Give or take a day. 😛
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I'm turning 50 in March next year @Smc
So I'm not far behind you at all...
It sounds so much more impressive when you say I'm 21 plus 10,590 days old...
Adge
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Unknown userMember
Just as well we are not counting dog years @Smc you would be pawsitively geriatric.
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Woke up this morning at 6am to some fool unloading an excavator on our footpath.
Asked nicely if he could unload it at his jobsite because we have open house tomorrow and I dont want the foot path messed up. Told me he would unload where ever he wanted and nothing I could do about it.
Rude man. 😡🤯🤐
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DeterminedSenior Contributor
Love it @Smc
I will have to remember that next one asks me my age lol
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
You may have forgotton to attach the picture @eudemonism? I wait with anticipation. 😄
Your garden sounds lovely and full. Except perhaps for unplanned visitors like the thistles. I get those coming up, but right down the back in the area near the creek bank. If you let them get to the point where they've just barely started sending up a flower stalk, then cut through the root just under the leaf crown with a shovel, they don't regrow. They've already invested too much of their energy in the flower stalk to send up another.
Yeah, I've had trouble with soil drifing away from hillock planted trees too. It is a good way to grow them, but you have to watch out until the soil stabilises.
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
@SmcI feeling for hour frustration regarding the loader incident.
I've only got a really small back yard. An half of hour of weeding and they'll all be gone. I'm enjoying them for what they are. I believe they have medicinal uses.
Eude
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