Sustainability Starts With Love

I want to show you a few foods and flowers that are growing in our biodiverse, fairly wild, organic garden. It really is a blessing to be able to grow your own and in the almost thirteen years that we have lived here, we have not imported any soils for raised beds etc … all … Continue reading Sustainability Starts With Love

The Prettiness Of Erigeron

The beautiful erigeron is starting to make itself at home in our organic country. I introduced it a few years ago.. This fairy tale plant always reminds me of beautiful gardens in England and of the talented British ‘plantswoman’, Edna Walling, who influenced and designed so many noted and beautiful gardens in Australia, where I … Continue reading The Prettiness Of Erigeron

Recording ~ The Truth Isn’t Always Beautiful

This is the recording of the blog article "The Truth Is Not Always Beautiful", written in 2015 ... https://www.clubhouse.com/room/PYQ301Lv?utm_source=clubhouse&utm_medium=share_room&utm_campaign=sQnHQnbkR9lOizfv1vhy7g-27770 Recorded during a session on Clubhouse in 2021, the recording is accessible to listen to on any device: https://www.clubhouse.com/room/PYQ301Lv?utm_source=clubhouse&utm_medium=share_room&utm_campaign=sQnHQnbkR9lOizfv1vhy7g-27770 Thank you for helping to spread awareness of the need for a more sustainably stewarded planet. Mindfully, … Continue reading Recording ~ The Truth Isn’t Always Beautiful

The Whites Of The Garden

The whites are coming … There are two types of white-flowering rambling rose in our garden and they’re popping open this week. For the glorious purity and grace of the moment, we also have white “mock orange” and some other white plants in bloom at the moment. The white lupins and white viola are amongst … Continue reading The Whites Of The Garden

Catching Up And A Mention For The Bees

Dear Readers, It has been a little while since I last sat down to focus on the blog and I must start by apologising for being scarce! We are now into June 2021 and the year, even in isolation / lockdown has been very ‘busy’ for me. I have been doing a juggling act of … Continue reading Catching Up And A Mention For The Bees

Vegetable Garden Musings on Earth Day 2021

Organic is best! Today is Earth Day. Yesterday I planted out the roots of parsley, from a supermarket pot of many stems, into the bed that my son had spread compost onto, before he returned to University a couple of weeks ago. The lupin nearby will be making the soil rich with nitrogen. The rhubarb … Continue reading Vegetable Garden Musings on Earth Day 2021

Why Toss When You Can Recycle?

Did you know that I believe in recycling so much that this has extended to moving things that others would love to buy onto Ebay? We have very little that is wasted in our home and save lots of time, energy and money by reducing our need for purchases, as a household, even going so … Continue reading Why Toss When You Can Recycle?

Elevate Your Thinking

  About mindset in a troubled time ...   Elevate Your Thinking This is the perfect time for the world to learn the power of faith and elevated thinking. It behoves us all to stop spreading the F.E.A.R and instead to practise L.O.V.E. We plant a seed and we expect it to grow; the seed … Continue reading Elevate Your Thinking

Evening In The Heather Hills

  We sat way up in the heather hills, nibbling our daughter's deliciously crisp ginger biscuits, chatting as a foursome while the sun went down, marvelling at the rainbow that had only moments before arched in magnificence over us. Alone in the hills, we four and our hound, the powerful, full, rainbow seemed a promise … Continue reading Evening In The Heather Hills