{"id":5380,"date":"2023-05-24T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:23:25","slug":"the-gardens-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=5380","title":{"rendered":"The Gardens in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We have had some really unusual weather here this month. A heavy frost of 24 degrees this week was a particularly extreme (and for a gardener an unfortunate) moment. In the aftermath of this frost, the beech trees in the surrounding hills turned brown as did the young leaves on many of our spring blossoming shrubs. Out in the vegetable garden, the baby radishes, beets and collards bit the dust and had to be reseeded. The perennial gardens looked almost as if they were melted by this cold, but in the past few days, most plants have picked themselves up and begun to regrow. The abundant Lemon Balm had made an impressive and gorgeous ground cover under many Roses. I was quite chuffed by how well it all looked. Now it has bravely picked up its tattered, brown and frizzled leaves to try and regroup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with this frost, the gardens are still filled with lovely and thriving Flower friends- many of whom are Flower Essences we lean on every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bleeding Heart is granddaughter Grace’s favorite Flower. I remember feeling the same way when I was ten. There is something so compelling about its shape. Of course it is a vital ingredient in our Grief & Loss<\/a> mix, offering much support for a broken heart and all the sorrows of life. (Bleeding Heart can also be purchased separately<\/a> as its on our Additional Flower Essence list<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leopard’s Bane is a key ingredient in Golden Armor<\/a>, our beloved Essence for the protection of our energy field. Most of Leopard’s Bane’s Flowers survived the frost, but I was still glad I had made our year’s supply of the Flower Essence before the frost. Again it can be purchased separately<\/a> too as its on our Additional Flower Essence list<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today I made Lilac<\/a> Flower Essence. I went around the entire property collecting Lilac Flowers from all the different varieties of Lilac<\/a> we have here- a good two dozen varieties. The Lilacs<\/a> in this photo are from Siberia. Lilac<\/a> has such an immense restorative and strengthening energy. I love the feeling of this photo which conveys both the majesty of this Flower and also its mystical qualities. Long live Lilacs<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Apple and Crab Apple<\/a> trees are done blooming, but only just. We don’t yet know if the frost will mean no apples this year. I love the cleansing quality of Crab Apple<\/a> Flower Essence. Many spring Flowers including Crab Apple<\/a> have such a strong cleansing and restorative energy. They make me think of Hercules cleaning the Aegean stables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celandine<\/a> is a Wildflower, but it thinks it should be part of every Flower\/Herb\/Vegetable bed at the farm. Actually that is not entirely true. I was weeding out copious amounts of Celandine<\/a> in the Roses yesterday and paused to consider whether I should just let Celandine<\/a> bloom unimpeded. Celandine<\/a> had the grace to tell me to keep weeding as if I let it go there it would take over. So yes, sometimes Celandine<\/a> demonstrates restraint. It’s a Flower Essence about cell to cell communication, and somehow I felt that it was respecting the harmony of all the parts of the garden by telling me to keep weeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today the first Tree Peony<\/a> opened. Tree Peony<\/a> is a show stopper. This first Flower’s petals look a bit wonky from the frost but still radiant. By the time I noticed this blossom the honeybees had already found it and were busy enjoying the bliss of its abundant pollen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope your May is going swimmingly and that you find many moments of peace and beauty. All of us here send you much love. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have had some really unusual weather here this month. A heavy frost of 24 degrees this week was a particularly extreme (and for a gardener an unfortunate) moment. In the aftermath of this frost, the beech trees in the surrounding hills turned brown as did the young leaves on many of our spring blossoming … Continue reading The Gardens in May<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}