Well done Verdun - you are such a kind (and sensible) man As you say, depression is a bu$$er CBT is the best therapy I know, but you have to be in the right place to be prepared to try it and keep using it.
I dug my white dicentra up at the end of last summer and popped it in a pot - it looks much happier than it did on the Shady Bank - not sure where it's going to live permanently but for now it can flower where it is
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Think I may have to give some plants away. All of the Borage I sowed has come up strongly and I still have 50 border plugs from t&m arriving within the month. Either that or carve another border somewhere. And I have a pile of shrub whips to find a home for. Anyone near Dundee fancy a few trees?
Dove, does your dicentra not like shade? I was planning to buy a white one for a pretty shady spot, but you've made me think again...
Am currently trying to find a way to make a beautiful lilac produce flowers. It's a Syringa protolaciniata 'Kabul', with really attractive divided leaves, said to be very hardy and only growing to 4-5ft. I feed it and mulch it and it looks healthy enough, but 3 years on and no flowers - a lilac 'Miss Kim' in the same border flowers its socks off. Anyone got any ideas, please?
The Countryfile forecast predicts a warm, dry few days...
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Hi Hosta - glad the Old Speckled Hen medicine worked
50 cannas!!!!!!!!!!! Where are you going to put them all!!!!!!!!!!
The wind's dropped a bit here, but not before we had a really sharp downpour!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just finished re-doing the strawberry bed. Getting gloomy outside. Midges.
I like Old Speckled Hen too, but have to wait until we go to England. Should be going on Thursday, but there may be a strike
no idea Dove. I sent some seeds to Lyn and her's looked lovely the last time she sent me a pic.
These are the seeds I brought back from The Gambia.
I split 5, 2 year old clumps a couple of weeks back and ended up with 64 plants.
I have visions of a Canna Hedge
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well done Verdun - you are such a kind (and sensible) man
As you say, depression is a bu$$er 
CBT is the best therapy I know, but you have to be in the right place to be prepared to try it and keep using it.
I dug my white dicentra up at the end of last summer and popped it in a pot - it looks much happier than it did on the Shady Bank - not sure where it's going to live permanently but for now it can flower where it is
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, does your dicentra not like shade? I was planning to buy a white one for a pretty shady spot, but you've made me think again...
Am currently trying to find a way to make a beautiful lilac produce flowers. It's a Syringa protolaciniata 'Kabul', with really attractive divided leaves, said to be very hardy and only growing to 4-5ft. I feed it and mulch it and it looks healthy enough, but 3 years on and no flowers - a lilac 'Miss Kim' in the same border flowers its socks off. Anyone got any ideas, please?
The Countryfile forecast predicts a warm, dry few days...
I thought it would so I'm not sure what went wrong - maybe it needed to be a bit bigger before I planted it out ...... we shall see
According to the DM website we're in for a three month heatwave
I'm not going to put money on it 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.