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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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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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Mr D got a bit of work done in the garden yesterday, I only helped a little. Finally planted the carpet roses, there are two left over so I will need to find a spot for then. Mr D mulched a couple of garden beds and a neighbour kindly mowed our front yard with her ride on (our mower in being serviced).
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Looked at ride on mowers yesterday. Hard to tell if Mr D is keen or not ... time will tell.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member@eudemonism, I haven't tried bamboo, but I believe it is fairly easy to grow the clumping ones. You'd want to get a piece with a few roots on the bottom if possible, and often clumping plants grow better if you plant a small clump rather than individual pieces.
Looking forward to unloading the plants I brought back from Mum and Dad's place. I grabbed a whole lot of bromeliads, which I'll probably keep in pots; some potted bulbs; some succulents and one cactus; and I found a pot of irises I'd overlooked last time so they've come back barerooted. I also brought home a potted protea that was a 50th Birthday etc. pressie from an old family friend up that way.
Gardens at both ends are full of weeds. Need to deal with ours before fire danger season kicks in. The peas and broad beans I planted in Mum and Dad's garden a couple of trips ago are growing well and should give us something to eat on the next trip, and I've put in Borlotti and Bush Beans plus sunflowers and nasturtiums for further down the track. There's also some healthy looking lettuces, but I suspect that they may bolt before we get to them. If so, I'll collect seeds for next time.
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@eudemonism Had a quick google myself - looks like your stem cuttings might be the best way of propogation clumping bamboo - hoping you have some success.
Took the hound for a run in our garden and noticed some liliums and gladioli bulbs poking through some weeds so liberated them, contemplating a spot that might be good for our left over carpet roses (garden bed at front of house done - could possibly do with one more rose but of a different colour). My session was interrupted as the chooks decided to come into garden to free range and I did not spot them before the dog did. We had another hound v chook incident, fortunately no casualties, but there were two close calls.
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eudemonismSenior Contributor
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Finding what is sustainably manageable has been a challenge for me @eudemonism.
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Always nice to come home with some new plants in tow @Smc.
Managed to get a bit of weeding done here and put some potted liliums in ground as well as canna lily and peony divisions, the latter picked up at a nursery when I took in a camelia leaf to see if a cause for it's failure to thrive could be ascertained.
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Former-Member, I'm particularly looking forwrd to seeing the bromeliads in flower. A lot of them have buds.
I've been getting out and doing weeding today and yesterday. Still lots to do, but at least a couple of my beds now have more flowers than cleavers growing in them.
Lily of the Valley is up and has buds... tulips still going but getting a bit flopsy... potted dahlia shooting... irises starting to flower. Boring white ones first, the more exciting named bearded irises will follow soon and give a lovely show. I've brought a fair few of Dad's irises back here over the past year. A lot of them have lost their names (no tag, or the name's faded off it) so as they flower I'll be trying to identify them. My sister will recognise a lot of them, so I'll have to take photos to check with her.
Wanting to kick off some veggies too.The potato peels and the pumpkin and capsicum seeds in the worm farm are sprouting, so that says it's the right time for them.
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