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Spot on Myra I no longer garden because of severe arthritis, but thoroughly enjoy reading other's posts....I feel as though I am in their Potting sheds/greenhouses with them

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Well you can give me a hand then Wishbone!

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Mups, where do you get all your lovely smilies???

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I wish I could Mups

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AS i am not as mobile as I would wish at the moment I am spending time doing a garden walk in our back garden to strengthen the legs. Walking slowly and actually spending more time looking at the plants I am amazed and the different colours and flower shapes, big and small, nature has given us the privilage of seeing.

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Glad you're getting about a bit Bazza, albeit slowly.

I also never tire of looking at my flowers, and I also say a little silent 'Thankyou' to God for giving me the eyes to see them. Some poor souls miss so much.

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I do the same! I take my first "cuppa" out and walk around the garden and just look at what is happening. There's always something new, something just coming into flower, something to smell or some insect or bird activity.

Isn't there some poem about being nearer to Heaven in a garden than anywhere else on earth?

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Anzac, just for you....

God's Garden

THE Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,
And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled.

So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,
For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.

And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod
And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

For He broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.

Dorothy Frances Gurney

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Finally managed to get my Aloe Vera's repotted this afternoon.
I've got loads of seedling Dianthus to prick out next, then sow some more lettuce leaves, and quickly get a few Dwarf French Bean in before its too late.
I've just bought some of that patch stuff for lawns to try. Never used it before, but with 5 dogs weeing, even when I water it down copiously if I catch them squatting, my lawn still don't look very clever!

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I'm glad you posted that, Ruthio, and thankyou, because spookily, I was thinking exactly the same thing as Anzac just yesterday, but couldn't remember it properly.