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Every Time You Love Instead of Hate The World Wins

Every time you love instead of hate, care instead of judge, help instead of hinder, you are helping all of us become more loving, caring and helpful. Every time one person makes one decision to love, to turn the other cheek, to ignore a taunt, and to rise above corruption, to look at the world from a more positive viewpoint it makes it easier for the next person to do so and so on.

We are all joined at the spiritual level so one single gain in your life is a gain for us all. *¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more about the benefit of the plants in your garden in my fairy communication and Spiritual Teaching books ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’, ‘Fairy Sparkles’ and ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

My Books are available through these links –

The Year of Talking to Plants https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Fairy Sparkles https://books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Conversations With My Vegetable Garden https://books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/

My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/

Your Plants See What You Are Doing And Have Memories Of You

It’s amazing,  but the plants in your garden know what you did yesterday, via their plant fairies!  The consciousness of nature. ⚘

#fairiesarereal #gardening #BooksWorthReading

The Year of Talking to Plants books2read.com/u/bzoVzn

Fairy Sparkles books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Six on Saturday – 15🌸10🌸23 A Dancing Garden

This week the new garden areas gave started to look like a real garden after three years of establishing the garden beds. In go the roses and irises first and key native flowering shrubs at the back in the first year. In the next few years I have been slowly adding cutting grown plants and divisions of my hardy perennials and shrubs to fill in the garden beds in complimentary colours and textures. I add mulch and pony manure each year.As the plants grow a little more and the weeds grow a little less, until the rose under-plants start to merge and play together in a symbiotic dance.

For the first time these new beds in my new rose garden are starting to like like garden beds rather than a few plants planted in a paddock.The lovely Madam Isaac Pereire vintage shrub rose, I have decided to grow as a climber in this spot that gets a little more water from a verandah downpipe. I think she might reach the top too! Plus she will have way more flowers trained as a climber down her stems. The back garden spring spectacular in the background!My rotary clothesline being engulfed by a sea of perlargoniums!Being engulfed in these pretty regal pelargoniums makes washtime a treat!Roses Fire and Ice and Reine des Violettes, iris, statice, daisies and plum verbenaThis was a lucky find from our local museum that has trading table every week. I often find little garden plant finds here and this was a doozy! A Chinese Ground Orchid that apparently grows in pots or the ground in our town is quite outdoors hardy. I quite like its leaves too.Bearded iris Excite Me has very pretty blooms.

That’s all from me. See more beautiful Six on Saturday gardens from around the world, on the Six on the Saturday tag, our host is Jim you can find his blog here .
Thanks for visiting. Happy Gardening – Sarah

Do What You Love

The energy of loving whatever you do will infuse your life with more love.

The high God vibrations of a happy human, is very good for your good health. Happiness heals.

Spend time thinking and about the things and people you love and doing things you love
•´¨`•✿¸.• •✿ This love energy will permeate your whole life and change it for the better.

You are more beautiful than you realize and more powerful than you think. Your good thoughts and kind words change situations, warm hearts, and change the world one person at a time.

Words & photos by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

Let your heart lead you where it will, it will never lead you astray.

Allow the love that is you, spread far and wide. •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more in my book “The Year of Talking to Plants’ available from Amazon and all good book stores.

Use your imagination to imagine a better present moment, combined with feelings of happiness and faith, and you will be on the successful path.

The decision to be happy, affects everything for the better!

Words & Photo by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

You have the power within to change everything.

Be the love that is you.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more about the benefit of the plants in your garden in my fairy communication and Spiritual Teaching books ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’, ‘Fairy Sparkles’ and ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

My Books are available through these links –

The Year of Talking to Plants https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Fairy Sparkles https://books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Conversations With My Vegetable Garden https://books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/

My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/

Your Plants Have Lots To Say To You

As a psychic, I can talk to the plant fairies and they have lots and lots of interesting things to say about gardening and the world around them! Find out more in my book ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

Words & photos by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

Find out more in my book “The Year of Talking to Plants’ available from Amazon and all good book stores.

Find out more about the benefit of the plants in your garden in my fairy communication and Spiritual Teaching books ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’, ‘Fairy Sparkles’ and ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

My Books are available through these links –

The Year of Talking to Plants https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Fairy Sparkles https://books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Conversations With My Vegetable Garden https://books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/

My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/

Simple Moments Of Pure Joy

Sometimes it doesn’t take much for something to make your heart sing with joy. A flower, a child playing, looking at a person you love, a sunset. Seek out and fully enjoy the beauty that surrounds us all every day. Its good for your soul. •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

Spend time thinking and about the things and people you love and doing things you love
•´¨`•✿¸.• •✿ This love energy will permeate your whole life and change it for the better.

You are more beautiful than you realize and more powerful than you think. Your good thoughts and kind words change situations, warm hearts, and change the world one person at a time.

Words & photos by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

Let your heart lead you where it will, it will never lead you astray.

Allow the love that is you, spread far and wide. •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more in my book “The Year of Talking to Plants’ available from Amazon and all good book stores.

Use your imagination to imagine a better present moment, combined with feelings of happiness and faith, and you will be on the successful path.

The decision to be happy, affects everything for the better!

Words & Photo by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

You have the power within to change everything.

Be the love that is you.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more about the benefit of the plants in your garden in my fairy communication and Spiritual Teaching books ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’, ‘Fairy Sparkles’ and ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

My Books are available through these links –

The Year of Talking to Plants https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Fairy Sparkles https://books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Conversations With My Vegetable Garden https://books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/

My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/

Six on Saturday – I Really Dig Irises and Popping Gum Nuts! 7🌸10🌸23

After commiserating or congratulating with some of you, from missing out on the severity of the Agnes storm. A few days later we had an unexpected storm ourselves! I did not hear anything about it beforehand from the weatherman. We were surprised when an unusual and vigorous storm hit our state about 4 pm in the afternoon. It seem to be wind from a different angle and like it was going around like a whirlpool. The next day, a TV aerial from the cottage next door was dangling from the roof by its wires. So many branches were on our 200 metre long driveway, the most I’d ever seen. My husband picked the worst ones up and it was still bad. Then one of our daughters had a big stick picking up session while listening to music, which was excellent. I have been picking up the rest, when I go to drop the recycling down the drive.

Things that I had not secured were liberated around the garden like pots, cardboard boxes and cat baskets. The rannunculus display was badly whipped about but is still blooming in a less spectacular way. Then the next day I was walking in my rose garden area and I felt this popping sensation under my feet, like I was treading on tiny snails. But when I looked down I realized it was not snails I was popping, but little gum nuts underfoot from a nearby gum tree. A quite enjoyable sensation, a bit like popping bubble wrap underfoot! Now I’m going around to areas I haven’t walked in order to feel some more enjoyable popping!

Our house and garden were fine, and at least we got some much needed rain, in a fashion. Most of my bearded irises which are about to flower, seem to be OK, and all upright, which is a blessing! Then the next day lots of irises bloomed for the first time. Over the last three years I have been moving the bearded irises from the old now unwatered rose garden they were in, to a new watered and tended one, around our new house. The irises have thrived in the greater attention they get, from a garden that surrounds our house. With the roses, I moved a few that were small enough to dig up, and others I have taken cuttings of. Others that died in the drought, are on a list of ones I want to buy again for the new rose garden area.

The bearded irises bloom all October for me and encompass early, mid and late season blooming varieties that extend the iris bloom time. They are a bit of a mid spring treat! They flower after the spring bulbs and blossom trees but before the roses and the high spring blooms. There are a few iris nurseries, with display gardens around me and of course, it is my duty to support them, being small local businesses! It is only being a good citizen after all! It is also an indicator of how well the bearded irises are suited to our climate.

The Exquisite blooms of bearded iris ‘Champagne Journey’ with the pink stoechas Lavender in the background. What I love about iris, is the clumps get a little bigger each year with increased blooms. They seem to be able to cope with our temperate Mediterranean climate and bloom in the still (somewhat) moist ground from the spring rains.Iris Silk and Honey seems to be sitting in her own bouquet of Marguerite daisies, and Statice.A lovely concoction of Felicia, Salvia Bee Happy and plum Verbenas in the foreground. Bishop’s Lace and daisies in the middle and Alyogyne huegelii at the back.This pretty iris is called Entangled and look like she had had her colours painted on.The really old roses seem to be the very first to flower in my garden first. This one is L’Ouche (1901) that looks like a a way older Victorian Bourbon rose but as a found rose, she is listed as a China, which she does not look like. She is a precocious flowerer and is blooming for the first time in her new position in my new rose garden. I dug her up from the old garden unceremoniously this year, and she seem to have survived and thrived in the move! I could not live without her any longer, in my new watered rose garden area.One of the first iris to bloom, the fragrant Lemon Custard that actually smells like lemon custard! The irises are great partners to roses, not demanding too much space nor light from them and enjoy the same growing conditions. Lemon Custard is also on the Cover Picture.

That’s all from me. See more beautiful Six on Saturday gardens from around the world, on the Six on the Saturday tag, our host is Jim you can find his blog here .
Thanks for visiting. Happy Gardening – Sarah

Six on Saturday – I Really Dig Irises! 7🌸10🌸23

After commiserating or congratulating with some of you, from missing out on the severity of the Agnes storm. A few days later we had an unexpected storm ourselves! I did not hear anything about it beforehand from the weatherman. We were surprised when an unusual and vigorous storm hit our state about 4 pm in the afternoon. It seem to be wind from a different angle and like it was going around like a whirlpool. The next day, a TV aerial from the cottage next door was dangling from the roof by its wires. So many branches were on our 200 metre long driveway, the most I’d ever seen. My husband picked the worst ones up and it was still bad. Then one of our daughters had a big stick picking up session while listening to music, which was excellent. I have been picking up the rest, when I go to drop the recycling down the drive.

Things that I had not secured were liberated around the garden like pots, cardboard boxes and cat baskets. The rannunculus display was badly whipped about but is still blooming in a less spectacular way. Then the next day I was walking in my rose garden area and I felt this popping sensation under my feet, like I was treading on tiny snails. But when I looked down I realized it was not snails I was popping, but little gum nuts underfoot from a nearby gum tree. A quite enjoyable sensation, a bit like popping bubble wrap underfoot! Now I’m going around to areas I haven’t walked in order to feel some more enjoyable popping!

Our house and garden were fine, and at least we got some much needed rain, in a fashion. Most of my bearded irises which are about to flower, seem to be OK, and all upright, which is a blessing! Then the next day lots of irises bloomed for the first time. Over the last three years I have been moving the bearded irises from the old now unwatered rose garden they were in, to a new watered and tended one, around our new house. The irises have thrived in the greater attention they get, from a garden that surrounds our house. With the roses, I moved a few that were small enough to dig up, and others I have taken cuttings of. Others that died in the drought, are on a list of ones I want to buy again for the new rose garden area.

The bearded irises bloom all October for me and encompass early, mid and late season blooming varieties that extend the iris bloom time. They are a bit of a mid spring treat! They flower after the spring bulbs and blossom trees but before the roses and the high spring blooms. There are a few iris nurseries, with display gardens around me and of course, it is my duty to support them, being small local businesses! It is only being a good citizen after all! It is also an indicator of how well the bearded irises are suited to our climate.

The Exquisite blooms of bearded iris ‘Champagne Journey’ with the pink stoechas Lavender in the background. What I love about iris, is the clumps get a little bigger each year with increased blooms. They seem to be able to cope with our temperate Mediterranean climate and bloom in the still (somewhat) moist ground from the spring rains.Iris Silk and Honey seems to be sitting in her own bouquet of Marguerite daisies, and Statice.A lovely concoction of Felicia, Salvia Bee Happy and plum Verbenas in the foreground. Bishop’s Lace and daisies in the middle and Alyogyne huegelii at the back.This pretty iris is called Entangled and look like she had had her colours painted on.The really old roses seem to be the very first to flower in my garden first. This one is L’Ouche (1901) that looks like a a way older Victorian Bourbon rose but as a found rose, she is listed as a China, which she does not look like. She is a precocious flowerer and is blooming for the first time in her new position in my new rose garden. I dug her up from the old garden unceremoniously this year, and she seem to have survived and thrived in the move! I could not live without her any longer, in my new watered rose garden area.One of the first irises to bloom the lovely and fragrant Lemon Custard, that actually smell a bit like lemon custard too! There are loads of them this year! Irises seem to be great partners to roses, and do not really demand too much space and light from them and they enjoy the same growing conditions. Lemon Custard iris is also on the cover picture.

That’s all from me. See more beautiful Six on Saturday gardens from around the world, on the Six on the Saturday tag, our host is Jim you can find his blog here .
Thanks for visiting. Happy Gardening – Sarah

Every Flower Leaves You Better Off After Seeing It

There is no flower that does not leave you better off for having seen it! It leaves a footprint of love.

Words & photos by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher ✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ

Let your heart lead you where it will, it will never lead you astray.

Allow the love that is you, spread far and wide. •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more in my book “The Year of Talking to Plants’ available from Amazon and all good book stores.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Find out more about the benefit of the plants in your garden in my fairy communication and Spiritual Teaching books ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’, ‘Fairy Sparkles’ and ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

My Books are available through these links –

The Year of Talking to Plants https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Fairy Sparkles https://books2read.com/u/3nvB2B

Conversations With My Vegetable Garden https://books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/

My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/

Six on Saturday – A Confluence of Loveliness 30🌸9🌸23

This year looks like its going to be a dry one. After three successive years of La Ninia wet, it has moved into a different pattern and I’m going to make the most of it! The weeds are way smaller and easy to pull out and don’t swamp the plants. The need for mowing is not so urgent and the wild rye grass in the undeveloped garden areas is waist high, rather than as tall as me, like it was last year when I was mowing it. Which was a little daunting using a hand lawnmower! Also the flowering of the irises looks to be way earlier and the roses in some cases are two months earlier than last year. Hopefully making the iris and rose blooming dovetail into each other, making a confluence of loveliness! The front photo on this blog post is a photo of the lovely Sparaxis in my garden at the moment.

A sea of mauve purple pigface creeping down a dry bank. A treat that only happens at this time of year.The sumptuous vintage climbing Souvenir de la Malmaison, is one of the first roses to flower this year, she was last year too! The oldies are showing the modern roses how to do it! She has a few dirt splatters on her because I just dug an irrigation trench/bowl around her, making the water I give her, linger a little longer. So her skirts are a little muddy!Waking down a secret nook in my garden these huge red pelargoniums are staring to naturalize under a gum tree. Turning a negative into a positive and really rocking this dry shade spot! They would not be able to grow out in the open garden because of frost, but this little nook is shaded from such an eventuality. In the background are a Golden Gleditsia tree and a lovely Purple Native Alyogyne Hibiscus.We’ve been enjoying these fresh cut-and-come-again lettuces in our salads.Quite a vigorous Ivy leafed climbing/scrambling pelargonium, I got cuttings from from a girlfriend’s fairy garden a few years ago, is starting to fill in the gaps in a garden bed and I love it.The Rannunculus spectacular this week.

That’s all from me. See more beautiful Six on Saturday gardens from around the world, on the Six on the Saturday tag, our host is Jim you can find his blog here .
Thanks for visiting. Happy Gardening – Sarah