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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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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Hi and welcome to the forums @jovial 👋
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SmcSenior Contributor
It's August... weed overtake time!
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
have to keep us updated @eudemonism 
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SmcSenior Contributor
Hi Peoples, I've just come inside from doing a few things between showers.
Living in an 1800s house that used to have a shop in front of it sometimes adds interesting quirks to my gardening tasks. I'm not big on grass, and we've got a wide (1800s shop footpath wide...) naturestrip out the front that doesn't get mowed often enough. However, it has 1800s/early 1900s bitumen under the grass, which grows in a thin layer of soil over the top. I figure that if I expose a bit more of the bitumen, then it's that much less grass to grow. So I'm pulling up a bucket or two every few days, and chucking it in our chook's pen. She's loving the worms and grubs she's finding in it, and scratching it over helps speed up turning it into composty soil. One guess what I'll be putting around my summer tomatoes. 😄
I've also put a couple of potfuls of plants into the ground. One had Stevia growing in it last year, along with Corsican Mint (tiny fiddly intensely minty leaves). The Stevia died in the frost, but a sweet pea came up in the pot, along with a Seaside Daisy and a Coconut Pelargonium. The other had another self sown sweet pea, and I'd planted an Asparagus Pea in it. They're meant to be a summer plant, but it's grown very happily right through winter. I've transplanted a bit of the Corsican Mint back into other pots as I'm not sure how it will go in the garden, but all the others should do much better in the ground.
The soil is a bit scary-dry though. With a hot summer predicted, we'll have to really look out for the plants.
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Looked up the asparagus pea, very interesting @Smc found it on a Johnsons seed site along with stir fry recipe. They also sold a few other Asian veg seeds such as the mini eggplants one sees in Thai curries.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
hello @Former-Member, @Smc, @eudemonism, @Faith-and-Hope, @jovial, @Bunniekins
my orchids are out 
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