Plant Cheer.

It's a lot different doing the garden stuff one year on. So clumsy with simple tie ins etc. Yer! I'm an ageing youth club/ wild child/hippy, fantasist! But! This illness clobbers painfully differently! Great to have this forum to express the unexpressable! Ta.

[Purplecrow]

Gotcha on the difference in how we garden! Used to plow thru the weeding, planting and mulching in a day or two...now its a week or two..with help.

Just happy to still be out there...slow though I be...

Beautiful little blooms.

[Hidden in reply to Purplecrow]

Thanks. Pot of Ipheon bulbs. All credit to themselves. Our garden is great mood lifter & distraction. As with yourself it's a lot different doing with this illness. Still worth every effort though. Hard to give up the old vanities that I haven't the energy for but the body is telling me!! Happy gardening.ATB

[Purplecrow in reply to Hidden]

Back atcha😁

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

So correct, although mine’s arthritis not GCA. Can’t kneel without a lot of effort and a fair bit of swearing, so most of my weeding is done from a garden chair! Fortunately the ground is still quite damp so they come out easily enough!

Talk about ‘take up thy bed and walk” - or not! Still it gets me outside and that’s the main thing. 🌺

[Hidden in reply to DorsetLady]

Never thought ladies from Dorset swore!! There's another fantasy gone! DL you are a splendid example of dogged determination in getting on with it. Quite right now is the perfect time to lift those weeds. Wonder if there is a horticultural grabber/weeder on the market which you can use one handed while still retaining your glass of wine in the other. Sorry I just have this image of Dorset!! It's pies,prams & mobiles here!! ATB

[Purplecrow in reply to Hidden]

🤣🤣🤣🍷🌸🌸

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hahahahaha!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to Hidden]

Hi,

What a brilliant idea! Sorry to disappoint you, but we have mobiles here too, although maybe a few more quiches and strollers! Have to say Crab and Prawn sandwiches go down a storm! 🍕🥗🍤🦀

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to DorsetLady]

You said you garden from a chair - hope you have one of those with the glass holder built into the armrest...

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to PMRpro]

Now there’s a thought! Although I might spill it when I move the chair, and that would never do!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to DorsetLady]

Just need a side table to place the glass on while moving the empty chair...

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to PMRpro]

Gardening looks better all the time...🥂just need the weather today!

[Hidden]

Beautiful!

[SheffieldJane]

What a heavenly picture, perhaps the compensation is that we really notice more and look at nature like a child does.

[Hidden]

Yes Jane. And I have the advantage of still being like a big kid anyway!! Not a good night for yourself judging by your posting time. Hope your headache has improved.

[Grants148]

Lovely flowers Pepperdoggie,l love my garden but find it hard to keep the weeds under control,especially as the winter

[Grants148]

Sorry was cut off then,the winter seemed very long this year and has made everything much harder to sort out and l have far too many Spanish bluebells which seem to have spread more than ever despite my digging a lot of them out last year.l certainly like the idea of a glass of wine ,to lift my mood as l tackle the bluebells and dreadful creeping alderberry that keeps on spreading in spite of liners and stones. The garden is very therapeautic though and l always look forward to spring and the lovely spring flowers.

[Hidden in reply to Grants148]

Got me on alderberry Grants! Elderberry maybe! Flowers/fruits certainly make a fine wine though it is a tree. Ahh! Bluebells! Spread by seed & bulb. If you don't want them hoe off the green growth from their start. Works eventually. Resilient they are! Just trying to think what this ground spreader can be! Is it on top of the liner or beyond where it ends! A good liner stops most but not all. Does it have flowers? ATB Monty

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Grants148]

Is alderberry what I know as ground elder? Our predecessors in one house had obviously considered it acceptable ground cover! (The house wasn't much better). I sat on the lawn and painted the leaves individually! Spanish bluebells - equally vile but at least they are briefly pretty...

[Hidden]

You could be right there .So many different local names. IT's a thug usually needing a few treatments of Glyphosate. Most of the worst blighters spread by runners/stolons & put down roots quickly. It's a sea of Dandelion in parks round here this year though. The seeds will be sailing everywhere soon. Yes you can't beat the dark blue English bluebell. Looking great in the woods at the moment.

[Grants148]

Thankyou for your reply Pepper,you certainly cannot beat the lovely English bluebells.lt was ground elder that l am finding a real nuisance,however much you try to dig out all the roots it just keeps coming back,and if it flowers it can spread via the seeds to other flower beds. I will try Glyposate .All the best,Patricia.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Grants148]

You really do have to be as persistent as it is! I kept painting the leaves in the lawn and spraying larger plants where I could save other plants from it. You can't dig out the roots - even the tiniest bit regenerates. You have to use something that kills to the root first.

[Grants148]

Thanks PMRPro,l shall try and destroy the roots,but as you well know,it is not going to be easy.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Grants148]

I think it took me about a couple of years!!!! OTOH - it was in the early days of PMR so sitting and dealing with individual leaves was about the peak of my ability in the garden!!!!