A symbol of sunshine. Calendula spends the season following the sun with its incandescent blossoms with each petal being a gentle flame charged by the sun. In Egypt, this flower is used for beauty and the care of the skin. Because it almost feels like you are rubbing solar radiance captured by the sun into your skin. The skin is a vessel and canvas for emotions and expression. It's a mirror of your inner workings of the soul. The skin is also the largest organ, often overlook
A sweet blossom that blankets every green meadow, this flower holds a essential place for pollinators and animals alike. Red clover is packed with antioxidants and nutrients that supports the ecosystem. To me this flower exemplifies grace and stability. This flower is a tamed flame that nurtures and soothes aches of the heart and body. Red clover sweetens the spirit with radiance, beauty, and vitality. Medicinally this flower eases inflammation as it tones and purifies th
Passiflora Incarnata, also known as Maypop. This is my favorite flower and plant medicine to use for healing. It is always an honor to just be in the presence of this flower of Passion. I tell you that one can learn the lesson of a plant just by watching it. The vine blankets and climbs the scene around it, there is no heights out of reach to the passionflower. Spiral tendrils cling together with the grasp of lost lovers. The flower itself has five petals, with a hypnotizing
I first learned about Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) through herbalists I deeply admire. It is an incredibly rare plant, one that asks for reverence and restraint. If you are fortunate enough to find it, you must harvest with great care and moderation. Ghost Pipe is delicate, difficult to reproduce in the wild, and profoundly sensitive. It is a plant ally I never imagined I would encounter in my lifetime. So when I did, I was stunned. I sat with this otherworldly flower in q
Day Lily( Hemerocallis fulva) is o ften found in meadows, I stumbled upon a lily too exotic to be from here. Native to Asia, if you let this plant run free it will blanket the entire scene with its delicate radiance. My great-grandmother planted them here on ancestral land to protect the shoreline from erosion! Every part of this plant is edible...something I wish that I knew when it was blooming. In addition, every part of the plant is also medicinal. Day Lilies are used as
