If you are interested in planting native Australian trees, Trees R Us in Gympie have a huge range and the beautiful girls there know exactly what they are talking about. At the Environtech Expo organised by the Gympie Council next to the Pumped Hydro stall were two Gorgeous Gympie Girls from Natives R Us. They brightened everyone's day with their pink tops, gum boots nails, knowledge of native plants and their bag of goodies. As well as information about which plants attract bees and a little plant to keep, was a little bag of dried lemon myrtle and a recipe for Lemon Myrtle Biscuits. I love to bake so this was perfect for me. I made Lemon Myrtle Flower and Butterfly Biscuits for my work colleagues. Can we applaud the Pink Gympie Girls at Natives R Us, share and pay them a visit? Natives R Us Nursery

A reminder of the importance of planting trees!

Old pot, some old plastic toys and a bottle top for a pond and my 12yo made himself an animal garden!

My 12yo also loves to make creative stuff...he found some windscreen wipers on the side of the road and he made an arrow (as in a bow and arrow) then placed a can on my new bird feeder and he had his target!

I just love to recycle and re-purpose! It is road side collection in our neighbourhood. I found a little chair, sanded it back and gave it a light oil and now its a plant stand!

There is nothing more nourishing then soup...but even better when you've grown your own greens. I know its not possible for all of us to have veggie gardens but pots of herbs and spices can be so rewarding and wholesome!

Today I re-purposed a small portable work bench i found at a junk shop into a bird feeder...the birds are coming already!

I've been saving Native Bee's! When I moved from Tasmania 2 years ago I had never heard of Native Bees. Tasmania doesn't have them as Big Bumble Bees were introduced by the Europeans and were too big for the native bees to compete with and they died off! So I was so excited to learn about Native Bees up here that I did a workshop. Since then I have been telling people all about them. My Mum was devastated to learn that the have she found in a drain outside her house and destroyed was actually native bees...I found the evidence. Since then she has had native bee hives carefully removed by Bee Keepers. Recently I noticed a broad of native bees on my neighbours fence. He is American. I asked him if he knew they were Native Bees and he said he thought they were wasps and he had been destroying them. I showed him my Native Bee book and explained they were stingless. He no longer gets rid of them.

Hi there! This is my first post. I love to have fun recycling and turning trash into treasure! I am a Nurse and over the past 18 months I have been saving all the lids off the vaccine vials. The purple lids are from Pfizer vaccines. I then made a mosaic of the Walter Taylor Bridge in Indooroopilly which is opposite my work. To me it symbolises that we are protecting the people of Indooroopilly. However, i took it to a recent school fair and the kids thought it was a castle!