Flower Influence!

The garden gives us much happiness and enjoyment when we see the beauty of the trees, shrubs and exquisite flowers. These amazing flowers give more than just perfume and colour, the essences also give us help with our health.
The constant rush, the hustle and bustle, the traffic; they are all a part of day-to-day life for many of us. They are also a cause of our impatience, our reluctance to remain calm and in control. The essence of the impatiens plant is, naturally, to promote a patient and tolerant energy. Get through the day stress free, slow down, take some time to absorb the world around us and appreciate its beauty.
Self-confidence is something that many people lack. It's a disbelief in one's abilities to succeed and perform at a certain level of expectation. This can lead people to avoid trying, as they have already come to the conclusion that they will fail. Larch essence can help revive self-confidence and give people the boost they need to have a go at the things they would previously have avoided.

Mannatech Inc with founder Sam Caster, have introduced PhytoMatrix which does not contain any synthetic or chemically derived active ingredients. Instead, it contains vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that have been absorbed by a plant's roots and stored in its tissue. When harvested, these plants provide all-natural ingredients. Containing glyconutrients, these supplements give optimal health and wellness. Glyconutrients are now necessary for optimal health and well being.

Ants - A Common Garden Pest

Excerpt from 'Controlling Pests' by John Dengate - "Attracting Birds to the Garden"
Just a few food crumbs on the floor can bring hundred of ants into the home. In the garden you would think of them being more welcome. However that is not always true.
'Ants are rarely a problem in the garden- they can even be useful in eating insect pests and attacking termite mounds. However, they can also be garden villains - especially when they are scuttling up and down a plant stem. Even though they look innocent, those ants are up to mischief. They are protecting colonies of bugs which drill tiny holes into your plants to siphon the life-giving sap, and they are also spreading plant diseases. The bugs, in return for protection from their enemies, give the ants a sugary solution. It's a great system for the ants and bugs, but not for the plants, which often have wilted shoots and are stained with black mildew growing on the excess sugary residue.
The solution to this problem is to put the bugs off-limits to the ants by greasing their pathways. After blasting the bugs off with a hose, or alternatively, scrubbing them off with a nail brush, cover a few centimetres of the plant stem with petroleum jelly, lanolin or anything else that ants are unable to climb. Although this process allows some of the bugs to return, without their ant protectors, they mostly end up as dinner for other insects.
Ants in pot plants are easy to remove. You simply sink the pot into a bucket of water or a pond. After half an hour, your problems have swum away! The herbs tansy and peppermint are also reputed to repel ants.'

We do know that glyconutrients discovered by Mannatech Inc and Sam Caster, have overcome many problems. Glyconutrients support your body's natural ability to reach optimum nutritional levels and play a role in enhancing quality of life. Mannatech offer hope and assurance of nutritionally enhanced lives.

Technically Superior Dino Tails

This reflection taken from "Creation" Vol. 29 No. 1 Focus News
There is great and amazing design in the armour of early living creatures, namely the conch and abalone. 'New research shows that the backs and tails of ankylosaurs were protected by strong, lightweight 'armour' so sophisticated that it's been likened to the structure of a fibreglass surfboard or the Kevlar of bullet-proof vests.
Torsten Scheyer of the University of Bonn, Germany, found two complex arrangements within the 'armour'. In the bone calcium of the plates, interwoven collagen fibres formed mats that crisscross from layer to layer. Within each mat, parallel fibres were angled perpendicular to fibres in the mats above and below.
"The armour was thereby endowed with great strength in all directions," said Scheyer. He also pointed out that as the ankylosaur swung its tail in self-defence, the layering could absorb large amounts of stress. All creatures reflect the ingenious hand of the Designer - Creator God of the Bible'.

Can't get much better than that for our wonderful creatures in nature. However, scientists from Mannatech Inc. and Sam Caster, continually work at improving their products and have produced PhytoMatrix, a plant-sourced multivitamin and mineral supplement for delivery of glyconutrients and important phytochemicals.

Designer Label Clothing- in Nature

Excerpt from 'Creation' magazine, Vol. 29 No. 1 Morning Glory's Designer Label clothing- By Dr. David Catchpoole B.Ag.Sc(Hons.) Ph.D.
'..When researchers report their studies of animals, plants, Earth and starry skies, they implicitly give the glory to 'evolution'.
A recent genetic study of the 'morning glory' plant, for example, speaks of the 'evolutionary transition' from purple/blue flowers (Ipomoea purpurea) to red flowers (Ipomoea quamoclit).
A closer look though, shows it is not evolution at all. Evolution... requires an uphill change, an increase in genetic information. But the researchers describe how their claimed 'evolutionary transition' from blue to red flowers in morning glory is actually a downhill change; a decrease in information.
The ancestral (normal) blue/purple floral colour is due to pigments derived from a chemical called cyanidin. Researchers discovered that mutations in Ipomoea quamoclit block production of cyanidin. Therefore a different chemical called pelargonidin builds up, resulting in red pigments and flowers. The researchers readily acknowledge this has been a downhill change, using such phrases as 'pathway degeneration' and 'loss of the ability [to perform certain chemical processes]'.
Thus the researchers concluded, starkly: 'This degeneration makes it very unlikely that I. quamoclit would be able to re-evolve cyanidin-based blue/purple pigments ...'. Why? Because, the researchers say, it would require multiple simultaneous mutations. These mutations would have to add information, i.e. it would require an uphill change.
But this is the opposite direction to observed mutations today. ...... The Bible tells us that from studying plants it ought to be obvious that they must have had a Designer (Romans 1:20). How could you ever get something that grows from a seed, extracts its own construction and maintenance materials from its surroundings, all fuelled by solar energy, arising by chance?'

Glyconutrients also have been in existence all along, but only recently discovered by the scientists from Mannatech Inc. The Chairman, Sam Caster, gives time and energy to telling the world the potential great benefits to all mankind from glyconutrients. These saccharides - glyconutrients- are necessary in our bodies, but are missing from our modern diet.

Bulbuls in Harmony

At my home in Sydney Australia, my father was always annoyed when the Bulbuls appeared in our garden. I guess they ate from the mulberry tree in the backyard.
Actually the Red-whiskered Bulbul come from India and south-east Asia. At one time, scientists thought they might be a serious threat to our indigenous birds, but thankfully, this has not happened.
These bulbuls seem to have been released in Sydney in about 1880, but did not become common until about 40 years later. Although they are a very effective competitor in the rainforests of India and Asia, bulbuls have not been able to invade Australian rainforests to the extent of other introduced birds as many ecologists feared they might. They have a pleasant range of calls which are heard in spring and summer.
Bulbuls find dense shrubby areas are ideal as they need cover to hide from predators such as currawongs (larger birds). The nest is a neat cup of grasses and bark with a lining of softer material. The three eggs are brooded by both parents.
Their food is made up of plants with bite-sized fruits or berries like grapes or mulberries. Suitable Australian plants include the Blueberry Ash and Lilly Pillies. If you have them on your block of land, the Bush Cherry and leucopogons are very useful berry plants - but not easy to establish.

Planting the seeds of wellness with glyconutrients is PhytoMatrixtm from Mannatech. It offers a complete, food-sourced vitamin complex; standardised phytochemicals; and concentrated amounts of plant-sourced minerals, which provide the body with what it needs for maximum utilisation. PhytoMatrixtm contains glyconutrients working in harmony with other components of Mannatech's celebrated Optimal Health Products, which is changing lives across the globe.

High-Tech Insects

Excerpt from Burke's Backyard Insect Inventors by Densey Clyne 2001
Our amazing insects have thought of many inventions, way before the human intellect overcame the problems of food preservation and cold storage. Not until the twentieth century were we humans privileged to acquire such grand helps in the kitchen.
'....Sealing their egg chambers means that the mud dauber and other solitary wasps can't feed or attend to their offspring. But each egg is provided with enough fresh food to carry the hatchling through. The mud dauber uses spiders or caterpillars. The cicada wasp stocks its underground burrow with our biggest cicadas while another preys on huntsman spiders. When these wasps sting their victims, they inject them with a preservative that keeps them fresh but immobilised for several weeks, until the wasp grubs have totally consumed them.
Still on food, honeypot ants in the Australian desert use cold storage deep in their underground nests. Foraging ants returning home with crops full of nectar feed some of it mouth-to-mouth to specialised nest mates. These ants, called 'repletes', simply can't say no - they eat so much they swell up like balloons. All they can do is hang about - literally - from the roof of the nest chamber. In a hot, dry season all the ants can survive underground by mouth-to-mouth feeding from their bloated sisters (who must surely feel a degree of relief)'.

Mannatech's newest glyconutrient product PhytoMatrix uses a patented hydroponic cultivation technology which makes it possible for plants to absorb greater quantities of minerals. PhytoMatrix provides superior delivery of essential vitamin, mineral and important phytochemicals.

Out-Smarting the Fox

Taken from 'Burkes Backyard' 2001
'A fox can cause havoc in the farmyard, but there are some good ways to out-smart this wily predator,' says Megg Miller.
'The children's favourite rabbit, tiny lambs, nesting poultry - all are nutritional delicacies to the fox. His taste is unquestionable: only the very best will do. Rarely will he do you a favour by dispatching the aged or infirm.'
'The fox now enjoys the suburban life. 'Bushy cover along railway lines, banks of creeks and the foreshore, together with urban parkland - even golf courses - have provided suitable accommodation in our city areas. There's rubbish to scavenge and no shortage of poorly-built poultry sheds to provide easy take-away chicken nutrition. The fox is not only highly adaptable but cunning and capable of causing unimaginable carnage.
Stories abound as to what will or won't keep foxes away. Here are the most common ones:
A dog's presence keeps foxes away - only if it is not chained up. Sometimes foxes work in pairs; one will lead the dog away and the other fox seizes the prey.
Use a light - Old timers used a kerosene lantern in the paddock, and nowadays we have flashing lights or activity-triggered security lights. The key to success is to move the light frequently or it loses its power to deter.
Employ companion species - Goat bucks, pigs, donkeys and alpaca wethers have all been cited as effective. Donkeys shriek and chase the fox, the goat buck is capable of standing up to it, pigs have a strong smell believed to mask that of poultry if kept close by, and alpaca will keep foxes out of sheep flocks.
Anyway these are worth a try, but always keep lambing ewes under supervision and the henhouse locked up.'

Early research on glyconutrients (the necessary sugars) suggests that by adding glyconutrients to the human diet there is an increase in production in one's bone marrow stem cell production.
Mannatech Inc. products are at the cutting edge of nutritional science and are essential for optimal health.