The bulk of the native flowers in my Flower Essence range were unknown to me ( I was given the information from spirit) so I needed an expert to identify them for me. By using the wonderful Google, I found that the bulk of them were growing in the Tin Can Bay region. This led me to the very obliging and delightful Susie Pickin who was at that stage in charge of the Cooloola City Farm Nursery in the Tin Can Bay Cooloola region.
Back in January 2008 I made contact, got all of the required approvals from the City Council and made the first of many trips to the region. One of the flowers in the group is Hibiscus Tiliaceus or Cotton Tree Hibiscus. Susie told me of a lovely old tree located in a zone that was permissible for collection. When I arrived it had been a blustery day and the tree looked bare of flowers. So I stood under it and asked its permission to collect flowers when it next flowered. I heard the tree say just look down, and durr there was a carpet of flowers all around the tree. I have since then purchased and planted a tree on my property for future collection.
