Sarah Rajkotwala's Blog, page 42
March 17, 2023
You Don’t Need to Try to be Joyful You Just Need to Let it In
Joy is just below the surface waiting to be expressed. 
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My front garden looking scrumptious one year! What a flower-fest! 
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My real life Fairy Book ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’
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Also my new Spiritual Part Autobiographical/ Part Spiritual Life Manual book “Fairy Sparkles” is available from Amazon through this link:
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My website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/
My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/
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Six on Saturday – Bathed in the Light 18-3-23
Both my garden and my life has been bathed in the light of positivity and sunlight this week. The summer’s last weeks and cool nights have been comfortable and enjoyable and weather-wise. The garden is showing signs of getting out of its high summer dormancy. So things are looking up.
I have started my autumn cuttings collection of more plant production from my garden. A fun task of walking around my garden and taking cuttings of my favourite plants. So far I have salvias, a pink daisy and a lovely Euryops daisy. Made possible by the cooler evenings but still warm days. The cuttings take off and root at light speed!
The morning sun shining through Fire and Ice rose.
Jolly petunias 
Was looking around my local nursery for calbrichoas to fill the front verandah hanging baskets. Couldn’t find any and then I saw this hanging basket full of them for half price on the discount table! So I bought them, as I can enjoy this basket and fill some of the other baskets with these plants too.
My washing basket table has been taken over by my new garden finds!
Pretty plum verbenas and a fly! Also a good pollinator.
This year because of all the rain we have some lovely tomatoes as weeds on the gravel paths. Which I left so that I can enjoy this wild form of food production. Much less work! This one is growing up a bike, with Tommy Toe tomatoes! I accidentally grew too many plants of these last year and the fall out is Tommy Toe weeds! The low ones were eaten by free-range chickens but the high ones are mine!Sorry about some of the blurry photos. They looked fine on my phone and then when I put them on the computer I could see some are a little blurry!
That’s all from me. Happy Gardening! ⚘
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Happy Gardening – Sarah 
Flowers Exude Happiness.
Shining in the morning sun. Flowers make everything better! They bless everyone who sees them. ⚘
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March 13, 2023
New Book Review of my Book ‘Conversations With My Vegetable Garden’
Thanks to Rosie Amber for her wonderful review of my book “Conversations With My Vegetable Garden ” available from Amazon and all good booksellers. 
The Review
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Conversations With My Vegetable Garden is a non-fiction spirituality book which is set in the author’s South Australia garden.
The book continues on from discoveries that Rajkotwala has made
The book continues on from discoveries that Rajkotwala has made and also written about in her other works: The Year Of Talking To Plants and Fairy Sparkles. She uses her psychic abilities to converse with plants and fairies who tend her gardens; it’s an interesting concept to consider.
In this book the plants and fairies offer wise words about planting and how to look after the plants as well as discussing the long-term issues on our planet caused by over-use of chemicals and factory-made fertilisers.
The book certainly makes you think about the benefits of being out in Mother Nature and the changes we can all make to restore plants and trees to help re-balance our world. I particularly liked the last section that included a list of vegetables and their spiritual and nutritional values.
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Book description
What would you do if you could talk psychically to plants? What would they say? What would you do if you could talk to the plants? Psychic author Sarah Rajkotwala can do just that and in this, her third spiritual book, decides to explore the internal spiritual world of her vegetable garden. What do the vegetables say when they are conversed with? Can they talk back? What does a vegetable fairy do? Find out these fascinating spiritual discoveries in this unique look into the spiritual life of your vegetable garden. How does being able to talk to your vegetable garden, affect the way you garden in it? Would it change the way you garden or approach nature? Would nature change its approach to you? If the garden is indeed conscious, how will it affect the whole of society to know that their garden knows them, observes them, and has an opinion about their life? What do vegetable garden fairies think on different subjects such as organic gardening and self-sufficiency? In the back of the book there is an alphabetical list of common garden vegetables, here Sarah writes about their energetic qualities and some of their key features, as dictated by the vegetable fairies themselves. Is there a fairy in your vegetable garden? Yes, there is, and it helps your garden every day.
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Thanks so much Rosie xx
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My real life Fairy Book ‘The Year of Talking to Plants’
is available on Amazon :
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 website : https://petalsandbuds.wordpress.com/
My writing blog : https://rosegardenconversation.wordpress.com/
Zazzle – some of my art designs for sale – https://www.zazzle.com.au/romance_and_flowers…
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March 11, 2023
Being Awake
Yes I’m awake. What does this even mean? Spiritual awakening or enlightenment is like moving to a sunny day when you have been living in the fog. It does not change anything, but at the same time it changes everything. You feel like yelling it from the rooftops at first, but it would mean nothing to those not on their spiritual journey. Although we all are to some extent on our own spiritual journeys anyway. To say I’m awake to those fully asleep would be like taking to a fish about the TV show you watched last night, not much point. But those already on their spiritual journey or even starting to ask questions, will understand.
You do not achieve enlightenment by meditation or achieving funny yoga poses or going on wacky pilgrimages. Although some people might do it like that. It is more a personal search for higher meaning and truth and a pilgrimage to you. Or the higher God self part of you.
For me it happened gradually over 3 or so years plus my whole life and probably lots of past lives too. For others it can be instant but that would be a shock and not a desirable way to oneness.
It gives you faith and hope and inspiration for greater things for all. You realize how joined together we all are. You love mother earth more and honour her in all the things you do as best you can.
You use you spiritual guidance more and realize what it is and use it and heed it more.
It does not make you rich but it gives you resources. It does not make you happy but it gives you the keys. It does not make you popular, but you become your own best friend. As you love and honour yourself more you become more radiant and attractive to other people. It does not make you more intelligent, but it’s not intelligence that got you there in the first place. It is spiritual intelligence that gets you there but you have to go through many life lessons and hoops before the keys are given to you. You do become more emotionally intelligent because that goes with the territory. You come more into alignment. That does not sound that exciting, but it is a deeply peaceful and satisfying thing to do.
It does not stop you making mistakes but you realize what they are quicker and self correct faster. It does not change your personality, it enhances the good bits. It does not stop self doubt but you realize what that is and don’t buy into that from of negative broadcast as much.
However it changes everything in a big slide for the positive. It is a big paradigm shift towards the Divine. You become more Divine because you discover and honour the God within. You start to co-create with God in a more smooth less clunky manner, because you now have the keys to a whole new world. And a whole new world it is. A whole new world of possibility and grace.
You still enjoy a good laugh and all the fun things. Maybe even a little more. You have a deep compassion for those still asleep and don’t judge where people are at. You become more harmless, harmonious and gentle. You are not drawn to violent crime TV drama movies and films and realize we create what we think about. So you only watch positive life affirming movies TV books and almost never watch the TV news. I read important stories on the internet written news instead where you are not creating what you are seeing via overly dramatic or violent tv visions.
Can people see it as you walk down the street? No, but they know there is something different about you and they probably can’t figure what. You become more positive because positivity got you there.
Kryon (an angelic teaching group) who I follow, likened it to a bird being let out of a cage. When it thought it was happy in the cage. Now the bird is free it can create a whole world of positivity and change. It’s free! Your world goes from black and white to colour.
You start to create small miracles and paradigm shifts in your own life and it flows positively to others lives too. Your life will be more on an even keel as the drama etc. floats away. You will have more control of everything as you learn the ropes in a more effective way. You don’t know everything, but you know something. More somethings than you did before!
The biggest realisation that changed for ne was that I have Gid within.. All the situations in my life has been created but me with the help of the Divine. So there are bits you can uncreate quick smart that you don’t like. And the bits you already like you can enhance and refine and beautify.
Do you start to be a different person? No, you become a better, more genuine version of you. You become more the greater part of you as you move more closer to your Higher God Self. And you are a beautiful jewel from God.
Before enlightenment, chop wood and make the food. After enlightenment chop wood and make the food. You will still watch junk on TV have to wait in supermarket queues and have to deal with ignorant people who think they are right. People may not still be nice to you but you will realize on some level you created it and will find it more interesting than anything.
You will be wiser than you have ever been. Some people may even be in denial of your wisdom and think you are wrong anyway, which is fine. Others secretly acknowledge it and honour you in lovely ways. You won’t much care about wrong and right anyway but seek to find the golden middle way. Your sweet spot in every situation as best you can. You start to do a little better with what you’ve got, and that’s a glorious thing.
Much love Sarah
Hold High Visions of The Life You’d Like – Your Life Will Meet You There
Good things that you intend, allow and believe will happen… if you let them.
Your imagination is where you set your intentions and feelings of happiness, joy and faith will make them come true.
Words & Photo by Sarah Rajkotwala spiritual author & teacher
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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…
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
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March 10, 2023
Six on Saturday – Garage Sale and Early Autumn Goodies 11-4-23
It has been an enjoyably warm week with cool evenings. Just right for bringing the flowers back to the garden! I have been replanting my hanging and window baskets with flowers. They will establish well now the weather has cooled somewhat but with still nice warm days. So the back of the house baskets have been done, now for the front baskets that all died in the heatus neglectus!
Can’t really go past the home grown vegetables to put a smile upon your face. Here we have our assorted tomato harvest and Lebanese cucumbers, beetroot and capsicum growing in the vegepod bed.
The table where I put my peg bucket when putting the washing on the line is unusually decorative this year.
Replanted my having baskets into with dry hardy perennials rather than annuals this year. The annuals don’t go the distance in the heat of summer and only last one season. Whereas these perennials will hopefully flower longer and cope with the dry. I have an ivy pelargonium, variegated pelargonium, fleabane and Cineraria here for foliage interest.
I went to a whole town Garage Sale (car boot sale) this morning. So of course I bought more goodies for the garden! More pelargoniums to add to my collection and a really nice purple ivy leafed pelargonium that a lady gave me as cuttings! Plus a nice floral makeup bag that I might use for my sewing.
Roses staring to rebloom – oldie Dainty Bess, Queen Adelaide, Radox Bouquet and Cherry Bonica.
My first native hibiscus Alyogyne bloom for the year and the Nepeta Walkers Blue that I plant as a rose garden edging has started to re- bloom too yipee!That’s all from me thanks for visiting!
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Happy Gardening – Sarah
March 7, 2023
The Trees in Your Life Excert a Calming Influence Over Your Life
The tree fairies exert a powerful and calming influence over your life . They love to clear your aura of any stress and strain. 
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To Love the Earth, to Love Your Garden is to Love God
God is in the leaves God is in the trees. God is in the land. Pollute these and you pollute God.
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February 26, 2023
My Garden
Our beautiful organic country flower garden plays host to all my Fairy Workshops and often I hold the weekly spiritual development classes there too. It is loaded full of flowers, fairies, butterflies, free range bantams and native birds. An ideal and peaceful place to learn more about the spiritual aspects of nature. The Spring months of October and November are particularly beautiful ideal and flower-filled time to come to one of our workshops.
I am also garden writer and write about my garden and garden adventures in all my spiritual gardening books.
I love colour and I love flowers and old fashioned fragrant flowers in particular, like vintage roses, lilac, iris, carnations, sweet peas, freesias etc. I also love pets and animals and wildlife and have lots of bees and butterflies and unusual and pretty Australian birds frequent our garden. It is gardening really in the cottage garden style because I love all things romantic and cottagey. I am part Welsh so perhaps that explain my love for pretty cottage style things. So I suppose my garden could be described as an Australian cottage garden.
I use lots of Mediterranean climate flowering plants and attractive flowering Australian natives, like purple flowered emu bushes and Alyogyne purple hibiscuses. I have collections of bearded irises that flower all October. Old fashioned vintage and modern shrub roses that flower in November along with a lovely collection of flowering garden pelargoniums and salvias. Our climate is typically Mediterranean with cold wet winter and spring rains and hot dry summers and autumns. I live in country South Australia, where the climate is quite temperate and is comfortable to garden in all year long. The garden flowers profusely when it rains so from the start of the rains in say late autumn and when the day temperatures cool down a little the flowers come back en-masse from May to December, Late autumn to Summer we have continuous flowers. Then it has a brief respite in January, Feb in the high summer when it is quite hot and dry, I garden here in the cool mornings and evenings and stay out of the midday sun.
I started the garden more or less from scratch. There were some previous fruit trees and driveway native trees and a woodlot planted by previous owners. There were no nice garden plants apart from a few lavenders, an oleander and a Persian lilac and a flowering quince shrub. So I had to start everything from scratch, I have enjoyed immensely creating a garden here that suits our climate. Working with an empty but good area to grow lots of my favourite garden plants.
I like to grow lots of edibles with tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, pumpkins, watermelon lettuce and parsley and herbs in summer depending on how well I set it up in early spring. I also like to grow lots of organic fruit and we are lucky enough to be warm enough to grow all the citrus varieties as we ll as ll the pomes and stone fruits, peaches, pears, apples and plums. Plus we are cold enough in winter to allow a good fruit set of fruit such as apricots and cherries, providing seasonal treats. I have set up a new garden area in the last 3 years that includes many of these fruit treats.
Our vegetable garden a few years ago with zucchinis, tomatoes, leeks, rocket and carrots.Also sadly it is quite an environmentally degraded area. I live in typical sheep and grain farming country. This particular area was stripped of almost every, last tree, shrub and groundcover by over judicious clearing and clearing trees to make a crust (sold for firewood to the local copper mines) in the 1890s when there was a drought for farmers. So this degraded and sullied land has given me a unique insight into the problems regarding bringing the land and the wildlife back from the brink of extinction.
I have planted lots of native trees and shrubs back on my small acreage to bring back some of the balance of nature. To provide a wildlife corridor for visiting birds, butterflies and kangaroos etc. Also to stop wind and water erosion of the precious yet thin topsoils typical in Australia.
Beautiful bearded irises in October
Bearded irises, Mediterranean garden flowering shrubs and perennials are joined by the roses in November.
As a painter, I use my flowers as my paint palette. I thank the fairies, Mother Earth and God too for making this garden possible. I thank our land also for being such a lovely place to garden.
I enjoy growing Asiatic lillies in pots that flower in December along with my hanging baskets full of colourful annuals.
I grow lots of Regal, ivy leafed and zonal pelargoniums in pots and in the dry shade under gum trees and other trees where there are away from the frost.Sarah
