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G.O.C.D.
bulkerb
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Help needed or perhaps advice I think I am suffering from GOCD that's Gardening Obsessive compulsive Disorder
even on my day off what to I do yep go to my shed and reach for my strimmer then my mower them my blower and finally my wheel barrow and cut my lawn then I spend in between times watching video after video about gardening then I even start thinking about tomorrow and how I am going to deal with different plants.
I know i'm living alone this weekend but I feel the need for more input a bit like that darn movie even my supper is likely to be vegetables or at least rice gosh I have to laugh Lester
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Or even wander round a shopping centre philippa - hell on earth....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well on phone googling plants and growing habits in particular skimmia plants they are like Holly you need a male to help produce the berries also beware if your looking to by cyclamen plants make sure you buy the right variety to go all through the winter and not what the garden centre are flogging right now which will have finished in a few weeks p. S. I think my TV is on
I agree Fg. The hideous Malls that crop up everywhere are my idea of hell on earth too. I have to have a general anaesthetic to even think about entering one. Give me a high street where I can see the sky and not have to breathe in recycled air - and where I only have to visit once in a blue moon.
Yes, FG and Ladybird - me too! And preferably a high street with plenty of charity shops... I absolutely detest clothes shopping, & since I have to chop 6" off any trousers I buy, I'd rather chop up 2nd hand clothes than expensive new ones.
No anaesthetic needed for nurseries and garden centres, however...
Aym280.
What's a holiday?
Can never go on one of those,too much to do.who would look after our boys,bracken,barley and berry.But I don't mind,rather look after the garden and watch TV.
always thinking of gardening. I've already got most of my seeds for next year.I'm thinking of moving some of my gooseberry plants,can't do it until november.Got wallflowers to put in,but until next month and bulbs.Thinking of getting a damson tree to make jam.
Aym, I see you have a foot in both camps. The eyes of the GoS are upon you
Aym, loads of hardy perennials can be sown now, don't get withdrawal symptoms. Sow some astrantia, aquilegia, anything hardy.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Aym
tree paeonies, eryngiums, aconitums, lots of umbellifers (or whatever we call them now) and ranunculaceae, primula, the sooner and fresher the better. Arisaemas, roscoeas, roses, I've has rosa rugosa flowering a year after an autumn sowing
Some will germinate very quickly if they're fresh, others will germinate in spring. None of then need heat and some will be inhibited by heat.
In the sticks near Peterborough