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This is my first season of gardening (although, last year, I murdered a few plants!) so I am still at the garden bore stage of rambling on and on....and on. I have just given up full time work after 25 years of working in the voluntary sector, mainly in housing and resettlement. I got roped into a community gardening scheme - in fact, I guess I AM the community gardening scheme but it is early days yet. Even so, I found that I was doing a lot of gardening late at night with the use of a miners safety helmet (both hands free) so something had to give. Now, I am spending time gardening, for myself and in the neighbourhood. The huge advantage to this is that 'my' garden has now been extended far beyond the boundaries of my tiny back yard - I can indulge myself planting beautiful philadelphus 'virginal' for example - far too big foy my patch. My youngest child is coming up for 16 so gardening fill a sort of nurturing and creative urge now that being mum is redundant (thank god). Thanks to all advisors and suggestion offerers - truly grateful.