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Love Makes Everything Better

When you choose love as your first response, everyone wins.⚘

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Six on Saturday – Spring Awakening and Climbing Roses 9🌸9🌸23

We have been enjoying some quite mild and I think colder than usual weather for the start of spring. We had 2 days of cold stormy rain, and 12 degrees, a few days ago where I insisted on planting some new climbing roses for my New Rose Garden area. I got quite cold and had to rush in and wash my hands in warm water and sit in front of the heater. I have lots of verandah posts from the old nursery area, to cover with climbing roses, which is a delight that I am savouring. I am planting some of the classic old fashioned ones such as apricot Crepescule and blush pink New Dawn, white Lamarque, Climbing Pinkie, Climbing Souvenir De La Malmaison and Noisette Madam Alfred Carriere which I have already planted. I also have new varieties such as pink Pierre de Ronsard, yellow Moonlight, pink Kiss Me Kate (love the name!) and which are modern classics with their glossy foliage and precocious flowering but less rampant growth (some of the old roses climb to 6 metres, but these only to 2.5 metres).

I have been after a few nice red roses. More a brighter red rather than a burgundy one. I would prefer one that has more rambler-like smaller flowers, but is fully recurrent in flowering. I have finally chosen the Red Pierre de Ronsard roses (not rambler-like with big fatty fatty blooms!), I knew I would probably get that one as it has the same very full old fashioned form of the pink version. They had a 20% percent off bagged roses at my local nursery which hastened my purchases. Plus, I was annoyed that I missed out on getting a second rose order in from the specialist rose nurseries as they closed of their orders in September.

Pretty tufty Italian stoechas lavender (in front of the trampoline), looks pretty at this time of year. I bought 3 of this plants on the nursery discount trolley and they have now grown to full size and are a lovely splash of pink in spring.I have tried to get this little Silene to grow in my garden beds to no avail ( although it will grow in pots full of potting mix quite happily), there is something they don’t like about my garden beds, probably the fact that I crowd them full of plants! But it is quite happy to grow in a crack in the concrete, go figure!I have been trying to get a yellow Marguerite daisy back into my garden. I found this hybrid variety in the garden, centre that starts out yellow then turns pink then red. It died in my garden last year, so I am growing one in a pot instead so that I can multiply it by cuttings and spread it around the garden. It not precisely yellow but it is very nice anyway. I think some of those more expensive hybrid daisies are weaker in constitution than some of the old fashioned varieties.I moved my bulb pots back to the verandah of the old cottage. It is great for staging a pot display because you can water and water them because they are on a concrete verandah that is stepped which is a perfect stage for bulbs in pots! Sometimes ugly things have their uses! I have covered a third of the verandah but I think I will cover the entire verandah edge in the next few years.The pinky red Freesia, Tulip heaven, white freesia and Dutch iris just starting.A long view of my bulb pots, I am enjoying the Silene plants underplanting the bulbs, adding a spray of happy pink to the proceedings! I transplanted the red freesias from one pot to be spread around all my pots, it is a lovely fragrant variety and low for the fronts of pots. The Silene is the right shade of pink to contrast with the other bulb colours and fill in the foliage gaps.

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

“It Is Nature’s Dearest Wish For All Of Life On Earth To Understand Each Other” – gum tree fairy

“It’s Natures’s dearest wish for all of life on earth to understand each other, and have compassion for everyone’s point of view.”- gum tree fairy

Nature is alive and conscious and knows you well.. •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

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/

Make Each Day A Work Of Love Made By You

What can you do to love yourself more? What can you do to love your life more?

Let your heart clear out the the debris of false beliefs ¨`•✿¸.• •✿

One way or the other, all things in life and bring you to, balance, enjoy, savour, forgive, forget, release, love, and accept things, people and situations in order to bring you to a greater way of being you ¨`•✿¸.• •✿

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 – 2🌸9🌸23 The Comfort of Nature

It has been an exciting week. Finally got my long-awaited rose order from a favourite rose nursery. The roses were a little small again. Since the covid lockdown, some of the mail order roses have gone down in size to one year old roses, instead of two year’s old bushes because more people decided to grow roses in lockdown! More people also, bought a pet and the price of dogs went up too. It’s funny what people think of when they have some more time at home away from work. Apparently it’s roses, dogs and baking! Oh and toilet paper, mustn’t forget that one! Hopefully more people read books too, they must have, with more time on their hands!  One can’t deny that these things are comforting activities and being in nature and your garden is a comforting activity, soothing for your soul! A great place to find respite in a changing world.

The sky larks have been singing their sweet song, a uniquely springtime tune. My garden has looked like spring for a few weeks now. But this week the flowering went up a notch with the second lot of the spring bulbs to flower in pots we have this lovely tulip make an appearance. Plus my green leaf daisies starting to bloom.

The first day of Spring was beautifully warm and sunny. I often find that on the first day of Spring,  it’s as though the bulk of people’s expectations order a fine day! The power of positive thinking en-masse!

This tulip didn’t take long to flower, once it had decided to come up. This year in my bulb pots, I have a few tulips, Dutch iris, lots of rannunculus  and the odd daffodil. I finally decided to underplant the bulbs with this little low Silene plant that I got from a beloved neighbour. It is gentle enough to allow the bulbs through and hopefully extends the bulb pots flowering a little with violas, alyssum and Johnny Jump Ups. Plus pink enough to contrast prettily with the strident rannunculus colours!

I seem to have every colour of stocks this year and rightly so! I planted 3 punnets to get enough stocks spread around the garden in the next few years, after a few years without them. You miss some of your favourites when you miss a season or two of them. This year I planted them at exactly the right time, early autumn to fully get them established and growing for spring.A side view of the spectacular Tree lucerne Tree.

Our back garden flowering has gone up a notch, with felicias, Cineraria, snapdragons, calendulas, Nemesia foetens, Alyogyne and daisies. Pussycat decided to follow me round this morning. Plus badminton rackets due for the bin, that have been well loved!The Amazing Alyogyne huegelii.A double weeping flowering peach tree in my front garden. The flowering peaches and plums flowered really well this year due to the drier spring and no wind!

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

Make the Time to Enjoy Yourself

You deserve to enjoy yourself. The high energy of your enjoyment blesses the whole of your life with good!

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.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

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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/

It is Possible to Speak to a Plant via it’s Fairy

It is Possible to Speak to a Plant via it’s Fairy,  the spiritual side of the plant.

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Find out more about the amazing world of your garden, via my channelled Fairy communication book. They are available in paperback and E book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many other sellers through these links.

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Six On Saturday – Wattle I Do? 26🌸8🌸23

Hello loves! I have a tree-filled Six on Saturday this week. This week I have finally decided where to plant some lovely big wattle trees of Acacia saligna plants. They had self-sown in my new rose garden area, under where I had put the dead branches of an old wattle, that has since been disposed of. This wattle the Willow Leaf Wattle or Golden wattle, is my favourite of the wattles I grow. It is truly spectacular, with is bright golden blooms arranged in a weeping form down the branches. It grows to 10 metres. It is a sight to behold in full bloom. I had one from a previous owner, growing in my front garden, so I have become well acquainted with it’s golden racemes in spring, that smell like sweet egg custard!

An Acacia saligna outside my previous rose garden, a number of years ago.

Unfortunately, like many wattles it is quite short lived. When it dies it falls down in a heap, with these big branches, some needing a chainsaw remove them. Consequently, I have banned it from my tended garden areas because it is a big job to dispose of it when it dies! They live from 10 to 20 years, depending in how much the like the growing conditions. They are a pioneer plant in Australia, and fix nitrogen from their roots, so they leave the landscape better off for being there. An environmental reconstruction plant. I had six 6 of these beauties to redistribute. I decided to plant them around the outside perimeter of my garden, in the pony paddock, but where we could still enjoy their statuesque wattle beauty in late winter. And when they eventually die, they can fall down in-situ and I don’t have to pick them up, because they are in a wild area of the garden. They can just rot down and form a wildlife habitat. Win-win!

Prunus nigra and a row of flowering plums. The grass below is a lovely green in winter.The delicious Prunus wrightii, one of my favourites flowering today. They have a delicate Japanese look about them!I planted a row of fruiting pears but most reverted to the rootsocks of Manchurian pear, during a few droughts, in an unirrigated area of the garden. I love them just as much.Tree wattle, Acaicia fimbriata and The gold dust wattle, Acacia accinacea, which does look likes its covered in gold dust!I wait all year for this beauty to flower in late winter. The lovely mauve pink blooms of Felicia echinata. I have put in lot of cuttings of this beauty, but they are quite slow to grow. She is very hardy and drought tolerant.

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

Your Garden Loves You!

The fairies love nature lovers! Your garden is conscious and aware of you.

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Six on Saturday – Blossomtime 19🌸8🌸23

Lovely Alyogyne huegelii folds, flanked by Flowering Prunus blossom and sweet Almond Blossom.

This week I have been busy putting together the large arch, that is in my front garden. It has been in pieces for months, after a piece of it broke off of it while I was putting it together. Making it a more challenging proposition to erect. However one quiet Sunday afternoon, with all the family out shopping, I decided to quietly put it together like a little puzzle. Determined to have it operational for spring! I used wire to fix the broken bit. We had a windy day a few days later, and it has since developed a lurch that a few tent pegs will put to rights (when I figure out where I have safely stored them)!

The big news, I have put a few rose arches in the front garden. The big one I just use as an armature, to attract the birds to the birdbath. They often wait on the arch to see if the coast is clear, before having a drink or a fluttery bath. It has since developed a lurch, we had a strong windy day a few days later. I need to search around for my packet of tent pegs, to put in to rights.The deliciously fragrant Tree Lucerne trees are starting to flower with their heavily laden racemes of blossom that attracts much attention for our native Honey-eater birds. They are a sure sign, that spring is just around the corner.Lilac eremophila is hitting its stride [image error]The pretty Prunus blierianna provides a frame, for the native Alyogyne Hibiscus plants, grey emu bushes and daisies.Rosemary Tuscan Blue, Marguerite Daisy, Alyogyne huegelii, Pink Osteospermum, pretty bamtam rooster stands still long enough for a photo.

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