A warm welcome. Fairy Wren Cottage is a 115+ yr old cottage, built on the side of a hill in Tasmania, an island off mainland Australia. My photography is only taken here at Fairy Wren Cottage, amongst a big old fashioned garden that my family and I have planted. Organic, bee friendly, and wildlife friendly. Favouring heirloom varieties, there are food hedges, small organic orchards with heritage fruit trees home to ducks and hens, wildlife areas that attract Tasmania's endangered marsupials and a now abundant birdlife population that visit or call the garden home. There are perennial borders, berry patches, food hedges, a kitchen garden, and lots of flowers. The Fairy Wren Cottage Postcards (my monthly newsletter), blog journal entries, and ebooks are all created by me - it's my way of documenting our country life guided by the seasons. My botanical photography is lovingly created to capture the beauty of nature.
Love from the garden, Jude x * All Home Renovations and Maintenance, Michael Van Heel's bespoke carpentry business, can be found HERE.
A warm welcome. Fairy Wren Cottage is a 115+ yr old cottage, built on the side of a hill in Tasmania, an island off mainland Australia. My photography is only taken here at Fairy Wren Cottage, amongst a big old fashioned garden that my family and I have planted. Organic, bee friendly, and wildlife friendly. Favouring heirloom varieties, there are food hedges, small organic orchards with heritage fruit trees home to ducks and hens, wildlife areas that attract Tasmania's endangered marsupials and a now abundant birdlife population that visit or call the garden home. There are perennial borders, berry patches, food hedges, a kitchen garden, and lots of flowers. The Fairy Wren Cottage Postcards (my monthly newsletter), blog journal entries, and ebooks are all created by me - it's my way of documenting our country life guided by the seasons. My botanical photography is lovingly created to capture the beauty of nature.
Love from the garden, Jude x
* All Home Renovations and Maintenance, Michael Van Heel's bespoke carpentry business, can be found HERE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
I ACKNOWLEDGE AND PAY MY RESPECTS TO ALL TRADITIONAL OWNERS OF COUNTRY THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND RECOGNISE THEIR CONTINUING CONNECTION TO LANDS, WATERS AND COMMUNITIES. I PAY MY RESPECTS TO ALL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CULTURES AND TO ALL ELDERS PAST, PRESENT AND EMERGING. SOVEREIGNTY WAS NEVER CEDED.
ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE ARE RESPECTFULLY CAUTIONED THAT THIS WEBSITE CONTAINS THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY.
My social media accounts are an inclusive space where everyone is welcome. Racism, sexism, intolerance, judgement, criticism of others, homophobia, transphobia, unsolicited 'advice' , bullying and inappropriate comments are not tolerated. Kindness to me is being respectful, not jumping to conclusions about someone, not listening to gossip or believing gossip, treating people how I want to be treated and treating all people equally. Kindness to me is standing up and defending someone who is being bullied or being misrepresented. Bullying is sickening, corrosive and destructive. That is why I have zero tolerance of bullying on my social media accounts, in my home and in my friendship circles. Kindness to me is doing something or giving something without the expectations of getting something back. Kindness to me does not include point scoring, holding back information purposely, gate keeping, setting someone up to fail. For me, kindness includes compassion, empathy, understanding, having a generous heart, tolerance, acceptance, trust and honesty. And don't we all want those things? All those things make us feel seen, heard, accepted, and loved. Kindness makes the world a better place.
"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."