Gin Thyme Photography

Back into food photography, zucchini slice!

Empty your busyness with a mindful nature walk. 🌿

A habitat garden is a garden space where you can engage with nature and a variety of species on a whole new level.
Did you know that Australia is home to more than 1700 species of native bees? Australian bees, like the Blue Banded Bee, are important for the pollination of many fruits and vegetables.
You can create a habitat garden for these blue beauties in your backyard by planting some of their favourite plants like the Hillock Bush (Meleleuca hypericifolia), Purple Coral Pea (Hardenbergia violate), Tea Tree (L Leptospermum morrisonii) and Tick Bush (Kunzea ambigua).
Connect, respect, protect and reflect. 🌿
https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/guides/living-with-local-wildlife

Shown here is Centranthus ruber pink sometimes known as pink valerian. Taken Millthorpe NSW. 🌿

The orchard in full flower

Spring is nearly here 😁. Buds are starting in the orchard, Parsley’s looking great and my new bird bath arrived yesterday.

Weekend gardening, particularly during a lockdown, can only improve your mood. Prune roses and hydrangeas if you haven’t already, rake leaves, pull winter grass before it seeds, start sowing spring crops now for an early start, get out the paper and start designing a new garden space. 🌿

“Cure yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds.
Heal yourself with mint, with neem and eucalyptus.
Sweeten yourself with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile.
Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a touch of cinnamon.
Put love in tea instead of sugar, and take it looking at the stars.
Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain.
Get strong with bare feet on the ground and with everything that is born from it.
Get smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with the eye of your forehead.
Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier.
Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember…you are the medicine.“

Advice from Maria Sabina, Mexican medicine woman and poet -

“Gardening situates you in a different kind of time, the antithesis of the agitating present of social media. Time becomes circular, not chronological; minutes stretch into hours; some actions don’t bear fruit for decades. The gardener is not immune to attrition and loss, but is daily confronted by the ongoing good news of fecundity. A peony returns, alien pink shoots thrusting from bare soil. The fennel self-seeds; there is an abundance of cosmos out of nowhere.”
Quoted from Olivia Laing

Share if you agree 🌿🌷🌿🌷

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Little Terrarium I put together today 😍