Plus you get flowers & veggies! Better than running around like a demented mouse on exercise machines. Plus gardeners are are such nice people! The physical and mental health benefits of gardening are huge and it is really good for your soul. Plus the fairies and the plants all make sure that you feel better…
Category: Gardening
Blossomtime, is a time of joyful anticipation of what’s to come!
The original aboriginal inhabitants of South Australia used to maintain that our state had 13 different seasonal parts to the year. I would have to concur spring here doesn’t suddenly start is eases through, late winter, and early spring, each new flower blooms in part of the procession in exactly the right time, for the…
Enjoying the pre-spring pansy spectacular at the moment!
They certainly look so bright and fresh at this time of year. Enjoying the pre-spring pansy spectacular at the moment! Pansies, pansies, everywhere. ♥`*•✿¸.• •♥`*•✿¸.• •*¨`*•✿¸.•✿*¨`*•✿¸.*•-:¦:-*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ Words and photo by Sarah Rajkotwala – writer & spiritual teacher at @Love In Action and Petals & Buds Spiritual Teaching and Nature Classes — at Petals & Buds…
The Fairies urge us to go Organic!
The fairies urge us to go organic! Learn more about what fairies have to say to us in my book “The Year of Talking to Plants” available online on Amazon and The Book Depository. – Sarah Rajkotwala writer and spiritual teacher #Spiritual #SouthAustalia #MyBarossa ♥`*•✿¸.• •♥`*•✿¸.• •*¨`*•✿¸.•✿*¨`*•✿¸.*•-:¦:-*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ Words and photo by Sarah Rajkotwala – writer…
So the daffodils told me…
I have been waiting for my daffodils to flower for over three years. Every spring I see the leaves come up but alas no flowers. I was beginning to despair of any having any daffodils flower again in my garden again, thinking it was a borderline probability that they will flower regularly in our warm…
I do love bulbs in spring, but bulbs in hot dry climates can be a challenge…
I do love bulbs in the spring. I love to mark each season with a change of flowers or foliage and leaf colour etc. I would love to have one of those gardens where you can grow swathes of bulbs under deciduous tree canopies but alas it can be too dry here, even daffodils can…
My Old Fashioned Rose Garden
I am in the middle of renovating, finishing and replanting my rose garden. This is an ongoing project that I do quietly plodding along on my own pace adding the odd plant here and there, dividing up perennials etc. A view across my garden a few years ago, the exquisite roses ‘Mme Isaac Perieire’ and…
Manna from Heaven…
Enjoying the parade of organic apple’s we’ve been harvesting from our autumn garden harvest this year… Jonathans, Granny Smith’s, Golden Delicious and Pink Ladies. Crisp juicy and delicious! Thanks you apple trees and tree fairies! – Sarah Rajkotwala writer and spiritual teacher ♥`*•✿¸.• •♥`*•✿¸.• •*¨`*•✿¸.•✿*¨`*•✿¸.*•-:¦:-*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ Words and photo by Sarah Rajkotwala – writer & spiritual…
It’s beginning to look a lot like spring!
Some bright rannunculus bulbs and a dutch iris in my garden this spring.
Sunset on my Favourite Salvia
Here is the sun setting behind my very favourite salvia, Saliva californica. I have many salvias in my garden but this variety, with its tough drought tolerant ways and masses of sky blue flowers on a very statuesque frame is such a delight. I enjoy its early spring show every year and look forward…
Beautiful Garden Vignettes
I quite like it every now and then when your garden provides a beautiful vignette. A little garden scene of colour and plant combinations that were either deliberate or accidental. Providing for one fleeting moment in garden time a picture of exquisite beauty and fragrance. Here we have some perennial wallflowers, a euryops daisy and…
A beautiful Monarch
A beautiful monarch butterfly visited our garden this week. It’s in the middle of winter here but still we have butterflies aplenty come a sunny winter’s day. Here he is enjoying the nectar from a perennial wallflower. I love his furry white spotted body too!
