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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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JacquesSenior Contributor
this is my new rose, it bloomed about a week ago, it smells devine and looks amazing, i hope you all enjoy
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
ohh how lovely @Jacques, thank you for sharing my wonderful friend 
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Janiee, are those tuberous begonias? Very spectacular.
@Former-Member, I've got peony poppies here too. I mostly get pink pompom ones, meanwhile in my Mum's garden there's red fringed ones. My sister and I will be collecting seed from those to introduce to our gardens.
@Jacques, do you know the name of that rose? I've got a "Just Joey" rose that looks very similar.
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JanieeSenior Contributor
Why yes they are @Smc, they store them each winter and plant them again after the snow
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How did your delphinium and other horticultural delights go at the show @Smc?
The funny shaped veg section is always a favourite of mine.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@Former-Member I have an aunt who won at a show with a giant sized .... something or other ... maybe a zucchinni .... hmmm ... she made the newspaper.
@Smc I bought my three roses on the basis of names and traits. I have a lovely Chicago Peace rose with a delicate scent that has been helping ground me lately. I have had it 10 years but this is first years of bountiful flowering. I dead headed regularly and collected petals for MY therapy. 
There is also the newer Appleblossom and a Gallipoli memorial deep red.
@Jacques What a beautiful colour. Lovely to see you! It has been a while.
@Shaz51 @Janiee Hi
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JanieeSenior Contributor
Hi @Appleblossom, hope your Sunday is going well 😊
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SmcSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom, I think the "Peace" rose and it's variants are possibly some of the best non-red perfumed roses. "Papa Meilland" is one of the best perfumed reds, "Black Boy" is also pretty spectacular. Our lovely sweet red rose that was growing here when we moved in hasn't got a name attached. It may be "Papa Meilland", but I don't think the shape of the flowers is quite right.
@Former-Member, the judge did like my delphinium enough to give it a first prize, but only after getting a second opinion to confirm that it was a true delphinium. 
It isn't one of the familiar modern hybrids. It's a species variety that still grows wild in the U.S. The one in my garden is a dusty purplish colour. Different and pretty.
https://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Blue%20Purple%20Enlarged%20Photo%20Pages/delphinium%20barbeyi.htm
I also got a few firsts and seconds for other flowers and vegs. Sweet peas, potted herbs, a buttonhole posy were among the firsts, can't remember what the others were off the top of my head.
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@Smc 🙌
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Wow @Smc You are into your roses
I am a late comer to roses as I was having my anti middle class tanties for a while. When you were not a nice or superior or respectable person if you did not talk roses. I wanted to talk HABITAT, but eventually I succumbed ....
It has a scent. We have a wonderful rose garden close by, so one does not need to own the land and plant the bush to appreciate them, but I have now.
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