Little Cottage Blossom

21/08/2025

Heehee 😉 it’s so true! 🌸

Too funny not to share 🤣 have a great day!

14/08/2025

Hello everyone! The Mama Cottage Blossom is starting to emerge from hibernation 🤣 Starting with sharing this transformational local course. And Emily Rogers is a wonderful facilitator! ❤️ Highly recommend this for anyone around the Macedon Ranges. 👩‍🌾🪴🫜 See you all soon with some seedlings and bulbs and gardening goodness 🥰😘

Has this sunny weather got you thinking about your Spring Garden? Join us from August 30th for this short Permaculture course, held on four consecutive Saturdays.

Spend time in our amazing gardens, connect with like-minded others and learn about Permaculture. In this short course we explore a wide range of subjects from soil and seed raising to connecting with community and supporting diverse ecosystems in your backyard.

This is a subsidised course, offered in partnership with MRFEC at only $95 ($50 conc) for 20 hrs of training. There's even an option to trade volunteer time for your course fee!

Bookings Open Now: https://www.socialplanet.com.au/activity/view?id=39011

24/06/2025

Hello friends 🌿

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately—you’d be forgiven for thinking I’ve been hibernating from the cold 🐻❄️ But in truth, I’ve been travelling interstate for some lovely family reunions and a dose of sunshine ☀️

Now that I’m back and getting stuck into things again, I wanted to share a little project I’m involved in 🌱 I’ve been invited to help coordinate the volunteer gardening crew at Macedon & Mount Macedon Community House!

My first task? Organising the Working Bee this Sunday, 29th June 🧤🌼 If you’re local to the Macedon Ranges or even as far as Bendigo or Melbourne, come and lend a hand in the winter garden—even just for an hour or two. We’ll reward your efforts with hot drinks ☕ and a sausage or two 🌭

Please RSVP here so we know how many hungry tummies to feed: https://www.mmmcommunityhouse.org/event-details/working-bee-sun-29th-june

Thanks so much for your support—I can’t wait to see you there! 💚

23/05/2025

Hi friends of Woodend and Macedon Ranges,

I’m on the Woodend Playgroup Committee and we are asking the Macedon Ranges community for feedback on a new FREE program we’re seeking grant funding for this year. Many thanks if you could take the time to fill out our survey. 💕

x Erin

Woodend Playgroup are exploring starting an intergenerational playgroup where local families and community members from older generations can come together through facilitated sessions to enhance adult wellbeing, child development and foster community connections. We would really appreciate if you c...

18/05/2025

So sad for Thelma and everyone who enjoys the beauty of gardens and shady spaces. Verge planting should be encouraged more, not policed. A backward thinking council, that’s for sure. 😞 🌸🪴

Thelma Kilfeather isn’t happy, she’s had five visits from Camden Council staff, who want her to remove her Verge garden. They’ve had a complaint about her beautiful garden being a “Visual Hazard”. That really made me laugh.

Sadly it’s not a laughing matter. Thelma is a gardener and she lives in River road Elderslie, which just happens to have some of the best gardens in Macarthur. The tree lined street is known for its leafiness, it’s why people move into this area, the soil here is incredibly rich so trees and shrubs reach their full potential.

Thelma had a Bindi and w**d infested mess as a nature strip, due to shade, so she removed this and planted a garden. She was aware that residents would need to still have access to their cars, so she made three paths through her garden.

She planted a mixture of natives and cottage garden plants. She has planted Lavender and Catnip, because of their fragrant flowers and foliage. It’s become a sensory walk.

But Council staff have come out, they aren’t happy, “It’s Council land” they told her, so it has to go, they’ve had a complaint. How ridiculous.

In inner city suburbs like Paddington and Marrickville, Councils give out awards, for the best Verge Gardens.

They encourage gardeners to plant up the nature strips to attract Butterflies and Pollinators. They clap their hands when someone plants a street tree.

Surely a forward thinking Councillor will come to Thelma’s rescue. It’s plain to see that Thelma is a gardener, who keeps her garden looking neat and tidy.

Rules need to be bent, rules need to be rewritten for today’s homeowners who have tiny gardens, with no room for trees.

The nature strip needs to become the nature attraction, not a lawn that attracts nothing but Bindi. Nature strips should be nature strips.
What do you think?

18/05/2025

Still available! Pop on over to our website to purchase or share our page with your friends 🩷💜💛

https://www.littlecottageblossom.com.au/products/chrysanthemum-flower-arrangements

17/05/2025

🍂 Freshly Cut Chrysanthemums – Straight from Woodend! 🌸

Looking for a cheerful bunch of local blooms?
Our chrysanthemums were freshly harvested on 17 May 2025 and are available now in two beautiful options:

💐 Wrapped Spray Stems – Airy, multi-flowered stems full of sweet little blooms. Perfect for your own vase or as a thoughtful gift.

🌼 Disbuds in a Jar – Big, bold single blooms in a cute glass jar – ready to display and brighten your day.

Grown with care right here in Woodend. Seasonal, fresh, and full of charm.

📍 Limited stock available – send us a message or buy directly via the website
https://www.littlecottageblossom.com.au/products/chrysanthemum-flower-arrangements

15/05/2025

For an organic grower, this is not good! 😰

Chrysanthemum White Rust on a new variety I recently received from a supplier. And guess who didn’t quarantine before planting!!!! 🫣 This is what happens when you get complacent and skip essential steps.

Why am I sharing this? Because these are the constant challenges growers experience in our day to day operations. 🦠 🐛 🌱

14/05/2025

This is amazing news! Our little local RSL sub branch, which is 100% volunteer run, and have been without their dinner nights for well over a year. And now it’s back! They managed to partner with a caterer to serve affordable meals in a place buzzing with community vibes. It’s not fancy, but it’s true small town. The sort of place you walk into and know it’s a safe, welcoming space. Whenever we travel Australia by road, we love to find these little local gems in a town 💎

13/05/2025

Meadowscaping! Yes please. 🙏 Have a read of all the benefits meadow plants provide the earth. They also have deeper and stronger root systems than grass, which means they’re working more in tandem with the soil and its regeneration—creating all those beautiful mycelium networks beneath the surface. So, when you next go outside and look at your yard, start thinking about what’s going on underneath the ground. Because that’s where the magic happens! Are you providing any root networks in your yard space? Or just a root mat of grass on the surface? I know not everyone likes the idea of an untamed meadow in their front or backyard 😆 but maybe start thinking about how you can create meadow corridors in your space? Not only will that improve the microbiology of your soil but also attract beneficial pollinators. Imagine if we all did that? We’d create one huge pollinating insect corridor! 🐞 🐝 There is so much we can do to regenerate our earth just on our small patch of land we call home. 🏡 💕 Happy Wednesday everyone 🥰 🌸

Here's why "meadowscaping" has become the latest gardening craze: https://bbc.in/3GVVAIv

10/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day! 😘

To all the mums, with babies in arms or children fully grown, 👶
To those who have loved and lost, ❤️‍🩹
To those expecting, hoping, or dreaming, 💕
To those who mother in ways beyond biology,
To the mums at heart, in spirit, and in memory.
Today, we see you, and we thank you. 🙏 🌼

From all of us at Little Cottage Blossom 🌸 Erin, Cory & Oliver x

06/05/2025

If you’re looking for some local gifts for a special mum this Sunday, enjoy 20% off your order on all gifts and homewares.

Use code mothersday25 at checkout to receive your discount.

Pick up in Woodend for free or delivery in Macedon Ranges locations for $5. Gift wrapping included.
💝

www.littlecottageblossom.com.au