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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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BunniekinsSenior Contributor
@Shaz51 aren't you clever growing orchids!! 😮 cannot wait to see the rest of the flowers 🙂
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Unknown userMember
Beautiful @Shaz51
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SmcSenior Contributor
Lovely @Shaz51. My sister is keen on orchids, and has some beauties. Mostly Cymbidiums.
My only successful orchid is a native Greenhood that I've got in a pot. It was in flower when I bought it, and is coming up to its third flowering, so that means I've had it for a bit under two years. I repotted it last summer, carefully following instructions I found online for potting medium and other requirements, and I was delighted when they came up looking very healthy afterwards. 🙂 One of their requirements is that you re-use the old potting medium as at least half the volume of the new mix, because there's a mycorrhizal fungi which associates with their roots and feeds the plants. Once they die down again, my sister wants to use some of the soil to innoculate a mix for some native orchid seeds that she's got which also need the mycorrhiza.
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
what I wrote this morning -sorry @eudemonism, where did you write it this morning my friend
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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AdgeSenior Contributor
Yes your orchids are gorgeous @Shaz51
I gave up trying to grow orchids, since my last ones died years ago.
Crucifix orchids are lovely (in various colours) - even those died eventually.
Adge
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Unknown userMember
I have two phalaenopsis orchids that I have been able to keep alive.
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AdgeSenior Contributor
I love Phalenopsis (Moth) Orchids @Former-Member One of my favourites.
I had several in pots for years.
Adge
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