Flowers by Janie.WA

30/08/2024

Around Smedstorpe, Sweden. Clouds, and sign writers/straight lines in the sky; round bales of hay, wind turbines…. These are things I like!

22/08/2024

I Just shared a beautiful long weekend with family altogether at Georgie’s in Queensland…!!! Hubby back to work and I leave with Ben tomorrow night for Sweden to see his daughter. So excited to start off with charades before she switches to English!!! 🤩😁🌸💕🌿

12/08/2024

A soft evening photo of grevillea, acacia bayleyana purpura, protea and leucadendron for someone very special to my hubby and I. Then bunch in situ and beautiful comments from recipient. 🥰 Flowers are definitely so joyful.

04/08/2024

Sunset 27.7.24 from City Beach ovals… ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

03/08/2024

Creation of last post’s ingredients!
Beautifully displayed in home of against her magnificent artwork by Thanks Sarah for your photos, flowers look right at home! 🩷🧡🩵💚🌸🌿

30/07/2024

Some very Special Ingredients… for (next post)
Almost all homegrown from our SW garden. All ours except this beautiful banksia from and some locally foraged wax!

29/07/2024

Special homegrown goodies for .wellness.medicine

18/07/2024

Happy 40th Birthday for a fun, funny guy. Pic 1… Delivered to a work site 🤩 This bunch had a relax before delivery, pic 2. Check out the beautiful blossom still in its cap pic 3. Love this business card, with its’ eaten leaves, just a tiny snippet of incredible botanical art by 💚💚💚🌿More bunches available, foliages and flowers For Sale. Come buy some and arrange a treat for yourself at home!!!

16/07/2024

FOR SALE: Freshly picked from our sw garden. What a spectacular day in Perth to come and choose your own bunch.

12/07/2024

Up close and personal to the metal vases full of love to farewell .bigwood The first 3 and another are the beautiful work of who came to our Wembley veranda the day before to help. You were amazing Helen, looking at what I was doing, at the flowers and produced these stunning florals 🤩 So it was red flowering eucalyptus, other beautiful eucalyptus macrocarpa, rhodanthe, and more…banksias, strawflowers, wax flowers, proteas and roses from her Mum’s garden, to create this bush setting in the city for this country girl… burnt oranges and yellows were the request from her daughters… Anna and Kate, we nailed it for your precious Mamma 💚🧡❤️☀️💚🧡🌿 ps Sal’s morning coffee was even delivered from her favourite place. 🥲

10/07/2024

A special casket spray for .bigwood So hard for her loved family and friends. A beautiful and very special lady. A daughter, a sister, a very Special Mum.
Your big beaming smile, your zest for life and your love lives on in their hearts.

29/06/2024

Back veranda visitors always welcome 🐝🐝🐝 Beautiful products for a very special lady.

16/06/2024

Happiest 1st Anniversary to Maike and Simon in Fremantle. 2nd photo shows bouquet trailing best. Loved creating beautiful flowers and placing in situ, enhanced by this gorgeous evening.

14/06/2024

Very well said… man???

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:
***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.
-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.
-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.
-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.
-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.
-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.
-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.
-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.
I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

12/06/2024

Excellent training!!!
Excellent trading, Good Dog!!! Lots of 10c Containers For Change there!!! 🧡🧡🧡
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Smarty pup 🥰😍 and sustainable.

12/06/2024

Last night’s winter sunset in Perth, Western Australia.

04/06/2024

Wheelbarrow load of grey foliage…
On top is Eucalyptus rhodantha, commonly called rose mallee or rose gum.
At the bottom is budded Eucalyptus pleurocarpa, commonly known as tetragona. Both are Western Australian flora. From this hot dry summer and autumn that has just finished in W.A., 7 hot dry months, the eucalyptus trees have not stopped giving us the joy of their blossom!

28/05/2024

For bringing her love of native plants, flowers from creating and arranging with much love, at my home outdoor space, to Karrakatta’s Norfolk Chapel for the most incredible farewell of such a special person. Most of the flowers and foliages are from Vicki’s and our sw gardens. I also have much gratitude for my local wholesalers who have also supplied great beauty.

24/05/2024

Such an honour to create Jude’s casket spray flowers… now back at Daglish Street by the pool. To of course entice the honeyeaters and bees Jude so loved. Lots from Vicki’s and our sw gardens. Roses: cherry brandy, shimmer, twilight.

20/05/2024

Happiest 1st Anniversary (20.5.23) .banana.wtf and Dan, sharing with beautiful little Iris. 1st 2 photos taken by .biesse Rest taken by me using iPhone.

10/05/2024

Michael’s Groomsmen were having great fun.

10/05/2024

Michael’s groomsmen were having great fun!

08/05/2024

MND Walk 2024 with our beautiful school friend Jude you are amazing and so determined. The respect and love we all have for you is immense! Ditto for the crowd you had walking with you and for you…from school and Uni days, your botanical and Rottnest Island Guide friends, neighbours and wonderful family and family friends. Then your incredible carers, Sioux, Jane and others, all so dedicated to you. All at love and respect you too. 💙🧡💙 I was so proud to be there with you. ♥️

04/05/2024

Apologies for quiet from me here, getting over a flu! These beauties were used in a special wedding downsouth week before last… The foliage was so lovingly put into 44 irregular bunches for under table raisers, with help so gratefully received from a living Angel 💚💚💚🌿

15/04/2024

A special Get Well gift in situ with a beautiful view! Banksias from Foliage and leucadendrons homegrown from our sw garden. Arranged with much love. x5 varieties!

14/04/2024

☀️☀️☀️ Sunshine… Acacia is back! Actually is there ever time without you?? Photo 1,2 is local yesterday in Wembley. Photo 3 is in our SW garden, from a week ago. Always brightly uplifting and cheerful 🤩🤩🤩 #☀️

13/04/2024

Yipppppeeeee….🌧️🌧️🌧️ delivered…lots! Some poor people had way too much. Where I am you can see our wet wet path, that was 5 minutes only for us! Arrow on map shows our sw garden received none…. Scroll to see my earlier than normal dog walk views, I must admit I was hopeful … pink galahs wondering if they will be ok? News on tv…. There was even a lot of, I mean a L.o.t of hail for some…. Poor people whose cars are totalled… South Fremantle way had zero… for some!

12/04/2024

Plant a tree, Got It!!! Have you?

The air is bad....... Plant a tree. 🌳
It is too hot......... Plant a tree. 🌴
Our soils are damaged.. Plant a tree🌲
Too much wind..... Plant a tree.🌿
Protect our water.... Plant a tree.🌵
Shortage of food.... Plant a tree.🌾

You can never undermine a TREE

09/04/2024

A great elongated sideways arrangement having a loll on the chair that suits photos of flowers… and cannot be tipped over! 😂 It is for a 360 degree position in this lovely clients home. Also, a little arrangement for their visitor’s room, with special overseas visitors due. So great to showcase for them. All foliage is from our sw garden, mostly eucalyptus, and some hakea looking amazing having survived our extremely brutal summer temperatures in Western Australia, and still with no rain in 6 months. Well… under 1-2mm of rain only, dried instantly! Banksia purchased from

29/03/2024

Nearly a full moon in the smokey evening. Incredible gratitude to all the firies saving human lives and homes down Waroona way this week. Horrifying to think how many innocent animals have lost their lives and homes. Grateful also that the large tree was only 1/2 lopped back and tonight the evening chorus of lorikeets was back, almost as loud as normal.