Sunflower Project

Have you heard of the Great Sunflower Project? It's an amazingly beautiful and fun project that I would like for you to be apart of. It's all about the simple task of planting a few sunflower seeds and growing some lovely lovely sunflowers then watching nature take its course.

The main purpose behind the project is about sustaining the ecosystem and you can read the full details over at www.greatsunflower.org/en/about-project . But if you're too tired to read the entire page, let me give you a few points that should put you for this project - simple ones that you can easily identify with.

Sunflowers are amazingly beautiful flowers. They are a big burst of sunshine ...

Evening Primrose

Every woman knows about Evening Primrose Oil (EPO). It’s an aged old secret brought down from generation to generations as mothers share with their daughters the about the ‘gifts’ blooming about in Mother Nature’s very own healing garden.

Now it’s very common that every woman knows that when:
she’s got spots and troubled skin that just never go away – she takes EPO she’s got nasty monthly cramps from PMS or she’s dealing with menopause/peri-menopause – she takes EPO she’s ...

Natural Scent by nature - Agarwood

Some know it as Aloeswood, some as Agarwood, while others know it as Oud. But by whichever name anyone knows it, they’ll know that this wood is a prized commodity that is possibly even the most expensive wood in the world.

Cited as the “Wood of the Gods”, this resinous wood is has been valued for thousands of years by various cultures for its rich and wonderful fragrance. The resins of the Agarwood poses cultural and religious significance across the globe. Amongst its many uses, Agarwood is ...

Seed Balls- the Green Bombs

Personally I feel one of the greatest joys in life, is being able to enjoy the refreshing sight and soul regenerating experience of a beautiful well tendered garden. It just one of those few experiences that words can simple do no justice describing- something you just have to feel for yourself in order to truly appreciate the magic about it.

Now I can’t say that I have the best/most effective green thumb but I can get the plants to grow/live and flowers to blossom. And I’ll admit that I am a bit biased ...

Strays in your garden

Have you ever come across this problem with strays, and when I say strays I’m making a particular reference to stray cats.

You know how they come uninvited into your garden and then
leave one too many smelly ‘presents’ whilst digging up your favourite rose bush (for the strangest reasons, they strongly believe it makes a lovely natural litter box space), scare/kill the little birds nesting or bathing in the bird bath, sneakily inch closer and closer to your opened window with each unwelcomed repeating visit (presumably to try to make their ...

Bouquets of eco-dreams

Bouquets and weddings go hand in hand- whether it’s for the brides and bridesmaids ornate handheld or ostentatious centrepieces to adorn the halls of the grand event, bouquet of flowers are ever present and in abundance too.

Factually weddings are one of the largest consumers and indirectly drivers of cut flowers industry.  Depending on the grandeur of event, flowers can be consumed as decor of the event by the tonnes; which end up costing the happy couple thousands of dollars at a time and at the same time, irreversible damage through the flower farming use of toxic pesticides and ...

Minis on your plate

Infancy has always been associated with the ideals of vitality, innocence and tenderness. Regardless of race, gender or even species, the world feels the same about the young ones – we are all compassionate, forgiving and overly protective over them.

Babies, lambs, piglets, little baby fishes (fingerling), puppies, kittens, cubs, cherry tomatoes, baby pumpkins, baby carrots (do you see the pattern and where this is all leading?) and all other young ones (flora and fauna included) melt our hearts with their undeniable adorability. Perhaps it is something about their built ...

Lulu Bug Jewellery

I love handmade products. Perhaps it’s the way they are made- by a crafters own hands thus flawed and unique from another that makes it feel so much more special. For some reason when everything is uniform it looks great and disciplined but at the same time it looks mechanically lifeless. With handmade products, each one is an exclusive- that unintended bend, that extra stroke of white on a painted petal, all masterpieces that can never be replicated.

Furthermore from a green girl’s point of view, handmade ...

Floral Feast

Flowers have long made and imprinted their marks into the cultures of civilizations around the world. And perhaps it is due to the nativity of their origin that you will find some flowers hold above others, greater significance to a particular country or culture. I mean it is simple to think of Orchids and hibiscuses to be associated with tropical paradises, the rose with England, the thistle with Scotland, Chrysanthemums and Cherry Blossoms with Japan and the eucalyptus flowers with Australia.  

From fragrance to pleasing eye delights, contrary to popular belief; flowers ...

Dandelions

I love dandelions. Growing up, I always thought they were magical and absolutely breathtaking- of course back then to me dandelions were the white puff balls and not so much the yellow flowers.  Perhaps it had everything to do with the stories my mother read to me, because somehow I always associated them with faeries and wishes – who could forget this: ’When you see the first dandelion of the season, make a wish; Blow on a dandelion puff and make your wish then say, “Dandelion, puffs away, make my wish come true some day.” If all the soft white hairs are gone after your third puff, ...