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It is Fascinating to Know that Plants Have Thoughts and Things to Say to You Via It’s Fairies

Every plant has a consciousnesses and an opinion via its fairies! ⚘ Find out more in my real life fairy garden books.

‘The Year of Talking to Plants’
is here – a.co/cKiKZdg
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Every Day Leads You Closer to Your Good

Things are better than you think. A solution is around the corner. All things are put into alignment by the Divine, long before we see it in form.
Have faith, you good has now come. ¨`•✿¸.

Find out more in my spiritual book ‘Fairy Sparkles ‘ available from Amazon and other bookstores through my links.

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

Links to my other E book sellers:
https://books2read.com/u/brveYA
https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical/ Part Spiritual Life Manual book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:

My other sellers – https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

My new book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ on Amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Conver…/dp/B08RB2HRGB/ref=sr_1_1…

Plus book depository and other good online book stores & Gawler Books SA.

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

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

Zazzle – some of my nature watercolour art designs for sale –
https://www.zazzle.com.au/store/romance_and_flowers…

Red Bubble my nature watercolour art
https://www.redbubble.com/people/sarahrajkotwala

You Are Beautiful Just as You Are

Heaven smiles every time you do. Be your own beautiful self!

You are Divine inside, what’s not to love!

Find out more in my spiritual book ‘Fairy Sparkles ‘ available from Amazon and other bookstores through my links.

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

Links to my other E book sellers:
https://books2read.com/u/brveYA
https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical/ Part Spiritual Life Manual book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:

My other sellers – https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

My new book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ on Amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Conver…/dp/B08RB2HRGB/ref=sr_1_1…

Plus book depository and other good online book stores & Gawler Books SA.

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

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

Zazzle – some of my nature watercolour art designs for sale –
https://www.zazzle.com.au/store/romance_and_flowers…

Red Bubble my nature watercolour art
https://www.redbubble.com/people/sarahrajkotwala

Six on Saturday – Victor Harbor and Indian Summer Days 29🌸4🌸23

This week we had a stay in the picturesque South Australian beach-side town of Victor Harbor. A much loved town, is also a place where many people had honeymoons in early days, including my grandparents. It is spelled ‘harbor’ rather than the normal ‘harbour’ because of a spelling mistake by one of the early officials, so Victor Harbor it stayed! The weather we have been experiencing this week has been around 23 and 26 degrees, we call it an Indian Summer, when the summer weather slides delightfully right into autumn. Which is quite lovely and very nice for a holiday at the beach!

Seaside holidays are very rejuvenating, because of the ions emitted from the sea which is very healing for the senses. The sea salt in the sea also cleanses your aura, so after a dip in the sea you feel so light and refreshed. You can see why many health resorts were based by the sea in the past.

Roses in my garden on my Birthday. One flowered for the first time ever in my garden on that day! Others flowered starting the day before. I find plants in my garden flower for special occasions, thank you fairies!Tecomas and the lovely view from our holiday house of the Inman Valley, Haysborough near Victor Harbor.The beach at Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot a cute beachside town.View of the beach at Victor Harbor, with the iconic Norfolk Island Pines, not native to this area, or country. The pines instead hail from Norfolk Island, (near Australia is an Australian territory, many people here are descendants from the crew from the Mutiny on the Bounty!). The pines obviously love the exposed windy conditions at the South Australian seaside and can be found in many coastal towns.Beautiful Clydesdale horse pulling the tram to Granite Island.Horse-pulled tram to Granite Island, using Clydesdale horses (I spied 3 helping pull the tram for the day). The tramway is one of the very few horse-drawn tram routes remaining in public transit service anywhere in the world. The horse-pulled tram here dates to the 1890’s where they used horses pull goods to granite Island. They became popular with the tourists to the island. They also used horse-pulled trams as transport, in the early days, to the towns of Port Elliot and Goolwa via horses rather than steam because it was cheaper!The backyard of the holiday home with banana plant and yuccas.Flowers in the park, roses, salvias and petunias at Victor Harbor with the Norfolk Island Pines.We rode on the Cockle Train, a steam train that traverses the coastal towns of Victor Harbor, Port Elliot and Goolwa. It travels along a scenic coastal route and is much beloved of town-folk and tourists alike. People waved at the train from the beaches, waiting cars at the crossings and small children hiding in bushes awaiting its passing! The cockle train was also depicted in a watercolour painting on the holiday home walls.Seaside view from the Cockle Train!Seamist sunset.

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

PS. I don’t know about you but I have had to write the same sentence and photo descriptions two times today. WordPress is playing hide and seek with my words!

Luck is Created

We manufacture our own luck. The luckier you feel the more lucky you get!

The more you concentrate on how lucky we all are, and have gratitude, the more you magnetize good things into your life, via the law of attraction.

Every positive thought you have alters everything for the better.
¨`•✿¸.• •✿

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

Links to my other E book sellers:
https://books2read.com/u/brveYA
https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical/ Part Spiritual Life Manual book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:

My other sellers – https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

My new book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ on Amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Conver…/dp/B08RB2HRGB/ref=sr_1_1…

Plus book depository and other good online book stores & Gawler Books SA.

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

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

Zazzle – some of my nature watercolour art designs for sale –
https://www.zazzle.com.au/store/romance_and_flowers…

Red Bubble my nature watercolour art
https://www.redbubble.com/people/sarahrajkotwala

Six on Saturday – Second Spring 22🌸4🌸23

We have had a gently warm week and quite excellent gardening weather, you can comfortably garden in all day. I have a couple of gardening sessions in the morning and the evenings. I have been busily beavering away in the garden, planting cutting grown perennials and shrubs like lavender and rock roses. Then taking more cuttings of my Mediterranean climate perennials and salvias, and taking hopeful cuttings of emu bushes (they are a little more tricky, but not impossible to cultivate from cuttings).

Plus I have transplanted two roses that I planted in a too shady and dry spot next to a golden ash tree. So I had to transplant them, they weren’t looking too good. But one is putting on new growth already, so I am living in hope!

I also moved a variegated cumquat (I have no idea what to do with cumquats but I liked the variegated leaves!) tree that was also in a spot that was dry and in a bit of rain shadow. I have transplanted young citrus before that were only a few years old if they were in not good positions in the garden. I successfully moved a navel orange and another orange called Cara Cara because they were too far away from my hose watering regime earlier this year. They transplanted successfully, so I hope the cumquat will too.

The Salvias in my front garden have perked up and started to flower en-masse. It is now at this time of the year that I remember why I planted so many of them here. They really do make a pretty show come the autumn months, and they ask for very little, just the occasional sprinkle of water. Here we have Salvias Christine Yeo (the purple one), Raspberry Royal, chameadryoidesI still can’t get enough of this jolly calendula show, I’m trying to make a border of them right the way around the back garden, just because I can and they are so easy to grow! I love their happy yellow/orange flowers in my winter /spring garden. I’m half way there! The lovely single vintage rose Sparrieshoop. This was growing in the garden on an arch (she climbs to about 3 meters) but alas, the dog picked it up on her thick fur and pulled it out minus its roots! In a panic I shoved it in an available pot that had potting mix in it, that I was likely to water and miracle of miracles, she survived!The lovely Vintage rose Mutabilis with its typically butterfly-like blooms. Once it gets going it flowers for months and months! I finally took a photo of my dark blue felicia that was not blurry! I love the easy gong felicias for their autumn/winter/spring blooms. Plus I loooooove blue flowers and so do the bees and butterflies and probably the fairies!The lovely dusky pink Queen Adelaide rose and another vintage Australian rose the famous Lorraine Lee, an Alister Clark bred rose that actually flowers in winter can you believe!The plumbago has had a second flush in the cooler autumn weather. More felicia and alyssum loveliness. One of the hanging baskets that I mentioned in an earlier post are finally flowering and the cuttings I took look successful, yay!The back garden has coloured up nicely with some roses, Cineraria saxifraga (the yellow groundcover), Salvia marine blue and pelergonium blooms and a wayward hollyhock that I am keeping for seed.

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

The Garden Fairies Remember What You Do in the Garden Because They See You!

It is quite amazing to realize, as a psychic, that your garden knows and sees you and comprehends what you do out in the garden. It is awake and aware and intelligent because of it’s garden fairies, the spiritual part of nature. ⚘

Six on Saturday – Back to the Future 15🌸4🌸23

My Front Garden Re-imagined

I came across a lovely photo of my garden I took over a decade ago on a poster I made for Facebook which came up on Facebook memories. I was surprised how pretty it all looked. I am now in the process of replanting lots of the dead plants in the said garden. We had a numbers of years between this beautiful photo, which was taken 13 years ago. A few drought years and another baby came along that shifted focus for a while, while life was lived.

Plus because many of the plants I used here have shorter lifespans. They are mainly shorter lived sub-shrubs such as daisies. They do not have an indefinite lifespan. They typically live about for 6 years. Euryops daisies live a little longer, maybe 10 years before they replace themselves if the spot they were growing in was conducive to growing.

Also the area is in a dry shade area under gum trees that, use a lot of water and create a rain-shadow and you will see that the area while not impossible to grow in, has its challenges.

While we have a lovely four seasons in our garden. It basically has two growing times, months with a wet and damp soil and months when it is dry. Plus this garden while not frequented by us as much, is overlooked by our new house from our front windows on the side. So I want it to look as nice as possible for most of the year.

The inspiration photo is here:

This photo was taken in high spring over 13 years ago. None of the plants featured in the foreground still exist here. The Marguerite daisies all reached their full life span. The yellow Euryops daisies died and did not replace themselves here because it is close to the dry soil of the gum trees. So this is my garden challenge picture, can I get it back to the way it was?I hunted around in my garden photos and found this which was taken around the same time. With my camera at the time the date was left on the photos because I did not know how to take it off, but I decided to keep it after a while because it is a very handy dating tool both for garden photo and for family photos when you look back on them. A close-up photos taken around the same time, lets me know exactly what plants were there. Plus some silkie chickens! I can see annual stock plants, fern-leaf lavender, daisies and a hardy spring flowering salivia, Salvia disermas.

Plus all the plants are mainly winter spring flowering here when the ground is at its moistest. Also featured here in the foreground are osteospermum daisies as ground cover that have since been replaced by a large summer flowering plumbago and agapanthus.

So here there are white and pink daisies, yellow euryops daisies and I can also see the colours of an abundance stocks I grew one year.

So I using this as a rough template for replanting for more spring magnificence in this particular spot. I made a map of the old probable plants and what new ones I have since planted here that are spring flowering.

The garden is a moving feast and the spring display is never exactly the same every year anyway. I have planted new native hibiscus shrubs that are quite large and will fill out the area in a different way in time and some crepe myrtle trees also.

This particular garden area has three main flowering periods the winter spring fairyland phase, the summer agapanthus and plumbago phase and the autumn salvia spectacular! So I plant with these 3 key times in mind. Not everything flowers in spring nor does it need to.

I took a photo of the same spot now, a few days ago as a point of comparison. It is autumn now and doesn’t flower as much here in such a spectacular way. That happens in spring. Plus the lawn needs to be replanted with something hardier, that was lost in some drought years, baby rearing and tardy watering.

Elsewhere in the garden quite a lot is happening because the rain has started and the temperatures have cooled so cottage garden colour is possible again.

I just liked the sculptural quality of this blush pink felicia with an attendant garden spider. The strange blooms of haemanthus look like they come from another planet as they rise out of the ground well before the foliage. This is one of the few garden plants I inherited from a previous owner of the garden. I am not sure whether I like them that much but there is a lot of them! Autumn bulbs do seem quite miraculous.The pretty effects of blue sky against my avian cherry autumn foliage, one of the prettier trees to colour up this year.Summer Romance a modern Kordes rose with old style blooms. I like growing Kordes roses (well known German rose breeders), because of their hardy constitutions and willingness bloom.The calendulas have started their jolly blooms, now the weather has cooled.

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

Hope is Reality in Seed Form…

Where there is hope, there is a way •´¨`•✿¸.• •✿

Words and photo by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author and teacher.

✿¸.• •.•-:¦:–~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐღ*~ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒஐ ღஐƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

My real life Fairy Book ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’ :

is available on Amazon :
– http://a.co/cKiKZdg

Draft to Digital link to my other E book sellers:
https://books2read.com/u/brveYA

Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:

Plus book depository and other good online book stores & Gawler Books SA.

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

Some of my nature watercolour paintings for sale: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/RomanceandRoses

Zazzle – some of my art designs for sale – https://www.zazzle.com.au/romance_and_flowers?rf=238385437391504114

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Believe There is Good in This World and There Will Be

Your belief creates your reality in minute and exquisite detail. If you don’t like what you see, you can choose new a new belief…and so on.

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

Links to my other E book sellers:
https://books2read.com/u/brveYA
https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical/ Part Spiritual Life Manual book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:

My other sellers – https://books2read.com/u/4Az2X0

My new book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’ on Amazon :
https://www.amazon.com/Conver…/dp/B08RB2HRGB/ref=sr_1_1…

Plus book depository and other good online book stores & Gawler Books SA.

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

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

Zazzle – some of my nature watercolour art designs for sale –
https://www.zazzle.com.au/store/romance_and_flowers…

Red Bubble my nature watercolour art
https://www.redbubble.com/people/sarahrajkotwala