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Let Life Help You Smile

The universe always strives to make you smile, and to take it easy to lighten up and to love life more. It is constantly giving you gifts and special moments to lighten your load and ease you way through your day. Such as a kind word from a friend, a funny thing your child does, a beautiful butterfly in your garden, a lovely customer at your work. A patch of amazing flowers in your garden. Life is never as serious as you make it out to be. The more you appreciate theses little beauties, the more will be given to you!

Find out more about the power of gratitude in my spiritual book ‘Fairy Sparkles ‘, available from Amazon and all good bookstores.

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/

Listen To Your Guidance It’s From Beyond The Mind

Where your guides, angels, higher-self and God gently and lovingly guide you.

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

You have the power within to change everything.

Be the love that is you.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Beauty #Love #Spirit #spiritualawakening #love #awakened #Kindnessloveinaction #sarahrajkotwala #theyearoftalkingtoplants #fairysparkles #conversationswithmyvegetablegarden #joy #joyfulliving #peace #peacefulliving #selfcare

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/

When You Are Happy, You Are Right!

The decision to be happy, affects everything for the better! It attacts more to you to be happy about, via the law of attraction.

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

You have the power within to change everything.

Be the love that is you.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Beauty #Love #Spirit #spiritualawakening #love #awakened #Kindnessloveinaction #sarahrajkotwala #theyearoftalkingtoplants #fairysparkles #conversationswithmyvegetablegarden #joy #joyfulliving #peace #peacefulliving #selfcare

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 Patchwork of Happiness 5🌸8🌸23

We have entered that delicious time of year when it’s the last month of winter but we get little glimpses of spring! With the advantages of still wet soil, to plants things in, and dark skies that highlight the whites, yellows and blush pinks of my daisies. The number of shrubs and trees that begin to flower, increases every week now. I call this period pre-spring and it encompasses the whole month of August and into September. I deliberately plant lots of plants that flower in this year segment, to ramp up the colour at this time. It is easy to look after these plants as they mainly exist on our natural rainfall, with a gentle occasional hand water from me. This year, the plants that I grew by cutting are starting to reach a mature height. A lot of plants are starting to flower and my favourite plants in this flowering time are the Euryops daisies, Perennial Wallflowers, Daisies, Lavenders, Rosemaries, Eremophila Emu bushes and native hibiscuses and the start of the spring blossom trees.

I have a small row of pink spring blossoms trees at the back of my new rose garden, which should improve as the years progress. The delicious white tree lucerne, has started to flower too and I have planted a collection of them of about ten trees, at the back of my front garden which should look pretty and kind of spectacular in years to come! I grew them by seed, well actually the fairies grew them by seed and I redistributed them! They have turned out to be my favourite blossom tree by far here and flower for weeks with their romantic weeping white racemes of sweetly fragrant bloom. My first favourite blossom tree is the Tree Lucerne, the second is the Crabapples, third the Manchurian Pear blossoms, then the flowering Prunus trees with their pretty pink blossoms. However all of my trees are young, and I suspect as they grow in girth and flower-power the Flowering Peaches and Plums will surpass some of the other trees in beauty and rise up my favourites list!

Lots of purples, whites and yellows and blush pinks in my garden at the moment. We get the occasional warm day now, a portent of things to come (I had to take my jumper off yesterday, when shopping when it reached 23 degrees). Today it is 12 degrees and rain, a delightful cosy day to stay inside and look out at the spectacle! The skies are dark, but the colour comforting and exciting.

Viola, my favourite pink daisy, white Butterfly Pelargonium, purple Eremophila, Dianthus Mrs Sinkins, incense scented Pelargonium, pretty zonal Pelargonium that colours up in winter and grey leafed daisy. Perennial wallflower with its purple flowers in this slot between late winter and early spring, Alyogyne, Lavatera maritima, a favourite shrub of mine. The first flowering plum, Prunus blireana , Eremophila Pink Panther. The SA Blue gum tree that shades a bit of my new rose garden, but this is an advantage here, as the roses in its shade stay moister longer and flower more, believe it or not! This tree is very popular, with the native birds, one year we counted 14 different birds nests in it of different species! It is flowering with its cute little yellow flowers, that will provide nectar for the native honeyeater birds.Purple Alyogyne huegelii native hibiscus just starting to hit it’s stride and a peak of the hill and the Barossa Ranges in the distance. A patchwork of Euryops, Marguerite daisies and Ostepemum daisies in the front garden.One can’t help but feel happy with all the jolly yellow flowering shrubs in this pre-spring period, the colour is exacerbated in the dark cloudy skies. An effect I deliberately capitalize on, by planting more of the jolly Euryops daisy bushes and Marguerite daisies. Making a patchwork of happiness!

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

Let Your Life Be A State Of Grace

Let life flow, relax and enjoy the beauty that was created just for you. Enjoy more, strive less and grace will be your inheritance *¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

Sarah Rajkotwala –  spiritual & gardening author

#Love #Spirit #awakening #awakeningconsciousness #PeacefulWarrior  #Grace

Just What Do The Vegetables Have To Say To Us?

My book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ books2read.com/u/3R8A0v

Is a fascinating read. Learn about the secret life of your vegetable garden, written by a plant psychic.

#fairiesarereal #GardeningTwitter #vegetablegarden #BooksWorthReading  #fairies #psychic

Six on Saturday – The Scent of Roses 29🌸7🌸23

The past few weeks I have started my winter rose pruning. It has also been the winter school holidays and I took some time off from my normal routines, to spend time with my children. I have been pruning one to five bushes a day, depending on my mood and the difficulty of the rose. I pruned Playboy a floribunda with smooth stems and a few well-behaved thorns, and dark purple new growth. That was fun and easy to prune, my Leonardo da Vinci shrub rose doesn’t need pruning, just pruning to shape, I cut three branches on him, easy. Then there was Aquarius rose, tall fat branches intersecting with each other with prickles upon prickles, hard! I even try to avoid pruning that one, but it is one of those older breed of modern roses that needs pruning. The new breed of modern shrub roses and Vintage roses don’t need much pruning, at all,  just to shape. Which saves a lot of time. You spend more time enjoying them.

I have also been thinking about what roses to buy, this year filling up my new rose garden area. With the emphasis more on hardy shrub roses, hardy Kordes bred roses that seem to well in my garden. As do David Austin’s, but I am more wary of them because a many of his roses have an unpleasant myrrh scent, (a smell a bit like Vicks vapour rub mixed with hot plastic). This unpleasant waft is exacerbated in our hot weather!

I am not sure why he decided that this was a good scent, when all his roses could have smelt of true old roses, as that was in their breeding? Or whether he didn’t have a good sense of smell. In all the old vintage roses I grew, all of them smelt beautiful however they had varying scents. Some smelt like a heavenly damask rose perfume, others had a perfume of warm peaches (Tea General Shablikine), and others smelt like ladles face powder (Souvenir de la Malmaison). Tea roses actually smell a bit like tea mixed with tobacco and others like Albertine smell of apples. Some old Gallicas smell a bit peppery, even their branches emit a scent and some have a fragrance reminiscent of warm summer berries (Hybrid Perpetual Madam Isaac Pereire).

A few of my modern single roses have little scent, but they usually have other redeeming qualities such as amazing floral display and good cut flowers. Plus good repeat flowering is high on my list of good rose qualities. Plus good mass flowering on the bush like a lot of the Hybrid Musks, such as Buff Beauty and the sweet floribunda Bonica. Easy to prune, less prickles and plenty of charm. Some of my roses are such bloom machines like Mutabilis an old China species rose that is practically in bloom all year if you put it in a sheltered spot in the garden. Hybrid musk Cornelia, is still flowering as we speak, in winter, in a sheltered spot next my house, she smells Divine. So that is the fun and the glory of roses .

A Mutabilis rose has just started and my winter blooming Lorraine Lee is still blooming too. This is because here winter is not our worst garden season, our hot and dry summer is.

So the roses breathe a bit of a sigh of relief when the weather gets milder, cooler and wetter in autumn and winter. Looking around our country town there are still a few roses flowering in many people’s front gardens. A row of mixed roses lining the front fence is a very South Australian way of growing the flowers. You might be able to steal a smell of them as you walk by, and wonder at the owner’s rose grower’s prowess!

Winter Miracle Iris Double Shot is still in full flowers, statice, Alyogyne native hibiscus West Coast Gem, Euryops daisies have started and the Calendulas just keep on keeping on.Hybris Musk Cornelia rose in a sheltered bed still flowering with the odd flower here and there. She smells quite delcious too, perhaps even more so in the middle of winter. Pretty Euryops Virginia’s flowering in tandem in my front garden. I have also discovered recently that these little beauties smell sweetly of warm honey, and must be highly attractive to pollinators.Pretty purple Eremophila Silky Lavender, a new emu bush introduced from the wild. We have a group of people called the Eremophila Study Group who work to bring rare and garden worthy emu bushes into garden commerce, spreading their delights with the average gardener. These beauties once watered in once, don’t need any water nor fertilizer, so make ideal garden subjects.If I asked you what this bloom was, you’d probably not guess it! It is the blossoms on my Loquat fruit tree, these blossoms spread a delcious scent all around this tree. A delight in the middle of winter!More winter jollyness, Euryops pectinatus just starting their lovely blooms. A jolly sight in winter and they attract bees and butterflies too closer to spring, when the weather starts to warm a little.

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 – The Scent of Roses 29⚘7⚘23

The past few weeks I have started my winter rose pruning. It has also been the winter school holidays and I took some time off from my normal routines, to spend time with my children. I have been pruning one to five bushes a day, depending on my mood and the difficulty of the rose. I pruned Playboy a floribunda with smooth stems and a few well-behaved thorns, and dark purple new growth. That was fun and easy to prune, my Leonardo da Vinci shrub rose doesn’t need pruning, just pruning to shape, I cut three branches on him, easy. Then there was Aquarius rose, tall fat branches intersecting with each other with prickles upon prickles, hard! I even try to avoid pruning that one, but it is one of those older breed of modern roses that needs pruning. The new breed of modern shrub roses and Vintage roses don’t need much pruning, at all,  just to shape. Which saves a lot of time. You spend more time enjoying them.

I have also been thinking about what roses to buy, this year filling up my new rose garden area. With the emphasis more on hardy shrub roses, hardy Kordes bred roses that seem to well in my garden. As do David Austin’s, but I am more wary of them because a many of his roses have an unpleasant myrrh scent, (a smell a bit like Vicks vapour rub mixed with hot plastic). This unpleasant waft is exacerbated in our hot weather!

I am not sure why he decided that this was a good scent, when all his roses could have smellt of true old roses, as that was in their breeding? Or whether he didn’t have a good sense of smell. In all the old vintage roses I grew, all of them smelt beautiful however they had varying scents. Some smelt like a heavenly damask rose perfume, others had a perfume of warm peaches (Tea General Shablikine), and others smelt like ladles face powder (Souvenir de la Maimaison). Tea roses actually smell a bit like tea mixed with tobacco and others like Albertine smell of apples. Some old Gallicas smell a bit peppery, even their branches emit a scent and some have a fragrance reminiscent of warm summer berries (Hybrid Perpetual Madam Isaac Pereire).

A few of my modern single roses have little scent, but they usually have other redeeming qualities such as amazing floral display and good cut flowers. Plus good repeat flowering is high on my list of good rose qualities. Plus good mass flowering on the bush like a lot of the Hybrid Musks, such as Buff Beauty and the sweet floribunda Bonica. Easy to prune, less prickles and plenty of charm. Some of my roses are such bloom machines like Mutabilis an old China species rose that is practically in bloom all year if you put it in a sheltered spot in the garden. Hybrid musk Cornelia, is still flowering as we speak, in winter, in a sheltered spot next my house, she smells Divine. So that is the fun and the glory of roses .

A Mutabilis rose has just started and my winter blooming Lorraine Lee is still blooming too. This is because here winter is not our worst garden season, our hot and dry summer is.

So the roses breathe a bit of a sigh of relief when the weather gets milder, cooler and wetter in autumn and winter. Looking around our country town there are still a few roses flowering in many people’s front gardens. A row of mixed roses lining the front fence is a very South Australian way of growing the flowers. You might be able to steal a smell of them as you walk by, and wonder at the owner’s rose grower’s prowess! ⚘

Winter Miracle Iris Double Shot is still in full flowers, statice, Alyogyne native hibiscus West Coast Gem, Euryops daisies have started and the Calendulas just keep on keeping on.Hybris Musk Cornelia rose in a sheltered bed still flowering with the odd flower here and there. She smells quite delcious too, perhaps even more so in the middle of winter. Pretty Euryops Virginia’s flowering in tandem in my front garden. I have also discovered recently that these little beauties smell sweetly of warm honey, and must be highly attractive to pollinators.Pretty purple Eremophila Silky Lavender, a new emu bush introduced from the wild. We have a group of people called the Eremophila Study Group who work to bring rare and garden worthy emu bushes into garden commerce, spreading their delights with the average gardener. These beauties once watered in once, don’t need any water nor fertiliser, so make ideal garden subjects.If I asked you what this bloom was, you’d probably not guess it! It is the blossoms on my Loquat fruit tree, these blossoms spread a delcious scent all around this tree. A delight in the middle of winter!More winter jollyness, Euryops pectinatus just starting their lovely blooms. A jolly sight in winter and they arract bees and butterflies too closer to spring, when the weather starts to warm a little.

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 ⚘

When A Rainbow Appears for You, Believe It!

The next time a rainbow appears for you, trust that it is a true sign from you from God and the Universe, letting you know that everything is going to be alright. In fact it is going to be better, than alright it will completely tun around in your favour. You can assist the rainbow by being as positive as you can, and only speaking positive words about your current situation and everything else and thinking only positive thoughts about it. Imagine the situation resolved in the highest and best way possible for all involved, it it will.

¨`*•✿¸.• •✿

#Beauty #Love #Spirit #spiritualawakening #love #awakened #Kindness

#loveinaction #sarahrajkotwala #theyearoftalkingtoplants #fairysparkles #conversationswithmyvegetablegarden #joy #joyfulliving #peace #peacefulliving #rainbows

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.

✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~

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

My real life Fairy Book ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’ is available on Amazon :– http://a.co/cKiKZdg

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/

Still Time To Grab a Book Bargain in Smashwords July Sale!

Still time to enjoy mega book discounts in Smashwords July Summer Winter Sale!

Be sure to check out great deals on loads of indie ebooks.

Grab something new to read today!

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SWSale2023 #Smashwords #BookRecommendations

All my Books are on Smashwords ‘The Year of Talking to Plants, Fairy Sparkles and ‘Conversations with My Vegetable Garden ‘ by Sarah Rajkotwala and are on sale.