Garden and Outdoors
Tips For a More Eco-Friendly Road Trip
What is your favourite way to see the world? Mine is undoubtedly via a road trip. We are about to embark on our first 2 week road trip without our other 2 boys. We have had a smaller trip as a trio, but this one will take us across to Daylesford, Melbourne and back via…
Read More5 Ways To Keep Indoor Plants Healthy
Whether you have recently discovered a passion for potted plants in your home, or like me, have always been a lover of the indoor plant, there are some tips that can help keep them healthy and alive. So many people tell us that they struggle to keep potted plants happy! Often there are basic things…
Read MoreTips on Creating a Zoned Backyard
Around the streets in many suburbs across Australia, you can see solid old homes being bulldozed to make way for the ever growing trend to squeeze as much property as possible onto a block in our cities. Whilst smaller footprint homes can be very sustainable and important in management of population growth and urban sprawl,…
Read MoreHow to Make a DIY Chicken Coop with Recycled Materials
Guest Post: By Nikki Dudley from nooks & cranny Chooks are loved by so many of us and keeping them safe and happy, should be the first thing you consider when planning to bring them into your life. We have been wanting them for a very long time, but want to really be sure we…
Read MoreWhy You Don’t Have a Black Thumb
Do you love potted plants but feel like every time you try to bring some indoors, they die? Worse still do you then think you have a “black thumb” and just can’t grow plants? The idea that some people have a natural green thumb and others, a black one, is a long held one. I…
Read MoreWhy You Need Potted Plants & How to Care Them
If you had not noticed, my home and my life, are filled with plants. Plants make you happy. They lift your mood immediately when you see them. They give you joy and a sense of achievement when you grow them. They enable you to stay present and mindful as you tend to them. As they…
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