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See you in the garden! 🦎🐸🦜🐛🪲🦋 Plants are humanity's oldest medicine. I can help you discover how essential oils can benefit your health and well being naturally.

Funky home remedies, futuristic and functional gardening - incorporating natives, bush tucker, fruit and ornamentals in an arty kind of way 💚
You'll fall in love with my wildlife friends too! Yet, in our modern world, many of these natural therapies have been replaced with mass-marketed, chemically engineered, man-made drugs that come with many serious side effects. Recently however, science has been rediscovering the numerous benefits found in natural aromatic plants, especially the essential oils contained in these plants. Pure, theraputic grade essential oils can offer a safe and effective alternative to conventional medicine. Perhaps you too have a passion for alternative therapies and natural healing? This could be an amazing opportunity for you to become a wellness advocate yourself and recieve all the benefits of free essential oils and making a living doing what you love, just by sharing your these beautiful oils with others. All training provided. Here's to healthy living!!

27/10/2026

Wood ear 👂 mushrooms!
They could be growing in your yard too!
Have you tried them?
You've probably seen them before? Maybe even eaten them when you eat out at your favourite Asian restaurant 😋

12/10/2026

Lets talk about stink bugs! 🪲

I noticed a few stink bugs in my mandarin tree last week but wasnt too worried.
But today when I walked around the garden, I was shocked to see the tree covered in them!!!
The little buggers must have told their relatives to come and join the party. There were hundreds of them! 🤮🤬

I knew they had to go... but how??
I'm an organic gardener. I don't want pesticides or anything that could harm my beautiful native bees or my frogs. Citrus trees are also host trees for some native butterflies 🦋
🚫So, absolutely NO pesticides!!

I looked up natural methods but I didn't like the sound of any of them. Even pyrethrum which sounds harmless, is non-selective, which means it can still kill all insects including bees.

There was only one right way to do it. Manually pick them off with tongs and emerse them in a large bottle of hot water. They die instantly.
And thankfully stink bugs are really slow and a bit dumb. They are easy targets.

It's funny that none of them squirted me either.
I'd come to realise that they only squirted their stink when I first initially approaced the tree. After that I guessed they knew I was just the gardener. They didn't see me as a threat.

They were wrong!! 😆
200+ stink bugs later

Also it wasn't as stinky as you'd think. It was sort of like over-ripe citrus and vinegar. No worse than some old lady perfumes I've smelled 🤭

04/10/2026

Bush tucker!! 💙

Planting edible natives in your garden makes a lot of sense. You don't have to look after them. They provide food for you and the native wildlife, especially our native bees!

This plant is a "Blue Flax Lily" or "Daniella Longifolia"
They are full of vitamins and antioxidants and make a gorgeous little addition to your garden as a space filler or ornamental plant.

18/09/2026

If you're looking to add more natives to your garden, give this little gem a go!!
I love Bush Tucker!
Like all natives, this lovely little shrub doesn't need much attention and will also attract lots of unique pollinators to the garden.
Bonus - you get berries!!!
Lots of berries! 😋

Pink Fruited Lime Berry
(Glycosmis trifoliata)

09/09/2026

When you feed native birds, they start to get a bit cocky! 😆

03/09/2026

My Pepinos are fruiting!! 💛
This is the perfect fruit for small gardens! Or even for a pot!
If you love rock melons 🍈
You'll love these!

25/08/2026

One of my favourite pass times is to watch the garden lizards hunt.
It's so cool!
Natures pest control.
Everything in balance 💚

24/08/2026

There's nothing better than fresh berries!
My experience - native berries are the best!
They grow like wildfire, hardly need any attention and they taste delicious 😋
They will even grow well in a pot.
I'm in Northern NSW.
This is the Atherton Rasberry "Rubus Probus"

15/08/2026

Have you tried these? 😋

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Tweed Heads, NSW
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