A woman spends up to eight hours a day working on her "fairytale" garden - a stunning multi-coloured haven with around 60 different types of flowers.<br /><br />Petrina Burrill, 49, started gardening aged six after inheriting her green-fingered nature from her mother, Julie Burrill, 74. <br /><br />The florist spends every day tending to her garden, in Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Australia, alongside her "head gardeners" - her cats Buttons and Lavender. <br /><br />The garden has up to 10,000 bulbs in springtime and 60 different varieties of plants at any given time and takes lots of daily maintenance - but Petrina calls it her "passion" so she doesn't mind.<br /><br />She talks to the plants and sees each one as "a beautiful little soul" - even naming her daughter, Adelaide Rose, 11, after her favourite flower in the garden.<br /><br />Petrina, who posts on Instagram under the username @petrinablooms, has turned her passion into a career and she sells custom bouquets from her own garden.<br /><br />She said she does it to "bring joy" to others like her garden does to her.<br /><br />Mum-of-two Petrina said: "My garden, she is beautiful, and she is always giving.<br /><br />"I garden for at least a few hours every day - going up to eight hours a day in April when I have to get all my bulbs planted.<br /><br />"I love our beautiful mother Earth that allows us to grow flowers.<br /><br />"My garden is absolutely my passion - it's my heart, and my joy, and my everything.<br /><br />"I've travelled all over the world but I've learnt it's the small things in life where the real happiness is found."<br /><br />Petrina spends every day in her garden - rain or shine.<br /><br />Depending on the season, and what needs doing that day, she can spend the whole day in it to keep on top of everything.<br /><br />Ahead of spring she spends all day out there, planting around 10,000 bulbs ready for the warmer season.<br /><br />But she replants everything several times a year to ensure there are always flowers in bloom, no matter the time of year.<br /><br />Her favourite flowers are roses - and her garden features more than 80 rose bushes.<br /><br />She even named her daughter as a tribute to the blooms.<br /><br />She has a 43-year-old wisteria which looks like "a beautiful purple jungle".<br /><br />Her garden often features poppies, anenome, a selection of different types of tulips and daffodils, peonies, foxgloves, cosmos and freesia.<br /><br />She regularly pulls and replants everything to make sure the garden is always in stunning condition - and makes her own compost to give her flowers the best possible treatment.<br /><br />Petrina said: "I do plant a lot of flowers and let them fall where they fall.<br /><br />"It's crowded, but they all find their way through.<br /><br />"I even tell them how beautiful they are. If I bump into a flower I say I'm sorry to it."<br /><br />Petrina was taught how to tend to the garden by her mother, who learned it from Petrina's grandfather before that, and his parents had passed the knowledge down to him.<br /><br />Now she is teaching her green-fingered ways to Adelaide Rose, who has her own flower patch in the garden that she is responsible for.<br /><br />Petrina said: "She has planted 800 bulbs by herself and takes them to school to give to her friends and teachers."<br /><br />Despite her garden also being her career, Petrina's main reason for spending the time on it that she does is to make herself and others happy.<br /><br />She said: "My garden is like a fairytale, that's the best way to describe it. It's uplifting.<br /><br />"The more the world gets big and terrifying, the more I just want to plant flowers and create more beauty.<br /><br />"If I found out I only have a year left to live, all I'd want to do is plant flowers.<br /><br />"There is so much meaning in growing flowers and seeing them bringing people joy."
