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2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
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I am Lorraine, originally from Leeds but now living in southern Italy. I am a keen but not very knowledgeable gardener but hope I can contribute in some small way. Whilst I usually follow gardening "guidelines", I also have a tendency to "wing it" - sometimes even successfully!  ;) Gardening here is very different, most specifically climate-wise, so I am on a learning curve. 

Please bear with me whilst I familiarise myself with navigating the site etc. 

Thank you.  
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Welcome Lorraine😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Thank you. 
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    welcome x
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hello Lorraine and welcome.

    How lovely to live in Puglia .... we spent 3 weeks there about 10 years ago .... loved it.

    Bee x
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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Welcome. 
    One or two live in Spain and France, so might have similar conditions to cope with.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hello.  There are a few of us in France - so gardening with heat and drought - but no regulars in Italy.   There is a Forkers chat thread where the French contingency hang out but we also contribute as and when we can to plenty of other posts about all sorts of gardening topics.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Ciao Lorraine.  Welcome.  You live in a beautiful part of the country.  I live in the South of France.  Different climates - different ideas - different solutions but it all comes down to getting results.
    Hope our different suggestions can help you.
    Tui
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Yes, we had visited some of the usual tourist places in Italy then a waiter in my favourite restaurant in Leeds said he was from Puglia and we should visit - we did and the rest is history. I owe that man a big "thank you".   
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Eek, thank you everyone for the warm welcome and advice. I am very much looking forward to spending more time here and a thank you in anticipation to anyone else who welcomes me. I tend to go to bed at, or before, 21.00 Italian time, as I have some health issues but I will try and catch up with everyone as and when.  
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Welcome @2000GTV Lorraine ... lovely to meet you. I’m not familiar with Puglia but I’ve spent happy times in the Tuscan hills and looking at art in Florence ❤️ 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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