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4/22/05 This morning's moody weather is actually a nice change from the abnormally
high spikes we had earlier in the week. The two day mini-greenhouse effect brought
many plants to greater life. Tomorrow the full moon in scorpio provides an excellent
opportunity to lavish further attention on your garden space and overall growing plans.
Feed all plants and seedlings with the appropriate organic supplements.
NOTE on behalf of rosebushes: Keep an eye on your grocery store's discounted fruit
shelf. Old bananas can go in a blender (add a little kelp or spirulina if you've got it) - dig
a trench around the roots of your roses and pour in the banana shake. Cover the
liquid, firming the earth gently. Water lightly for the next few days, or feed just
before/during rainfall.
416/05 It's a chilly spring so far, but very Green and productive, especially in the
garden beds. I've been feeding and pruning the perennials with a song in both voice
and heart. Every day I take a break from my sense of 'scheduled frenzy' in order to
reconnect with my deeper sense of wonder and awe that the spring season always
brings. Yesterday, with the moon in Cancer, I planted a wealth of mixed poppy seeds
and sweet sultan. The upcoming week's ongoing tasks include getting the runaway
Sweet Woodruff under some semblance of control! This sweetie pie has quite literally
consumed about a third of the main garden bed. Many of the plants involved in the
de-tanglement effort will eventually be 'airlifted' to the hilltop garden for essence
preparations. I'm making sure to explain the relocation facts, and its purpose, as I work.
This is probably several degrees south of preaching to the choir since nearly all the
flowers involved entered my dreams to request co-operation in this latest twist of
learning "what can be done" - creatively and energetically - to make a world in which
more people find ways to prepare flower remedies, and barter the results with other
like-minded souls.
4/3/05 We're thankful to be having rain storms rather than more snow! The basement
greenhouse is doing well. It will be awhile before the plants go outside but, in the
garden beds, every day brings more life force and radiating green love from the hardy
perennials. As always, the Angelica plants are emerging with a great deal of power and
verve. This is a plant I love so dearly that I have trouble imagining a garden without at
least one sentry. In truth I have gardened without the companionship of this particular
Green Ally and it was simply not the same. In recent years I've grown both
A. archangelica and the red stalked Dong Quai variety. Both provide a lovely
protective shield. Also note that Angelica devas are able to travel greater physical
distances than most attendant flower spirits & angels. This explains why their presence
and influence often seems so clear.
NOTE: The Angelica vibration is like manna for our guardian angels and other spiritual
assistants that help us with specific projects or manifested life dreams.
Last year I learned how much goldfinches love Evening Primrose seeds. With this in
mind, I'm leaving many of the plants to form colonies at their free will. Clearly, this
season will be a lesson in breaking down an extensive metaphysical grid so that the
innate power of indigenous medicine plants can carry and maintain the healing charge
without excessive maintenance. I'm learning this at the same time I learn what it means
to introduce myself and the Sparkling Lotus teachings to an established growing space.
The new garden bed is located in a gorgeous spot that's often entered my dreamtime
awareness. Stay tuned for news of TNG (the next generation)* Sparkling Lotus
essences! I've been gifted with a very interesting gardening plan that should be
challenging as well as fun to implement.
In the meantime I'm intent to continue learning from the original garden beds. Their
metamorphosis has given me a lot of pleasure in addition to many insights.
3/05: Local students who are working with grow lights need to be actively doing that
work NOW. Somebody called in a panic because their seed orders hadn't arrived yet.
Go to the local grocery or hardware store, hit their seed rack and approximate with at
least a couple of things you had planned. It snowed here for an entire 24 hour period.
The results look lovely but yours truly is growing impatient. The ground was nearly
cleared and I saw a great many things alive and well within the garden beds. Now I see
the sparkling white blanket of snow. Winter simply isn't through with us yet.
Obviously all the water the snow feeds to Our Mother will be a good thing when the
warmth does come. In the meantime the next generation of Sparkling Lotus flowers is
beginning to thrive in the basement greenhouse. Seeds from varying past seasons
have now germinated and begun to form their first sets of true leaves. All but two of the
sage transplants are flourishing. I've also received some sweet pictures from others
peoples' 2005 garden reports.
02/25: There are four types of flower seedlings in my basement. All are from seeds I
gathered last fall. I planted them just last week, during the Cancer moon. The other
flower seeds I planted are from a variety of previous seasons of viability. I'm not sure if
any of them will sprout but I plan on rattling for them tomorrow morning. Please
NOTE: the next new moon represents a half-lunar cycle of optimum benefit for those in
the Northeast who want to maximize their official growing season. Just one long
double-bulb grow light fixture and two full flats of sowing space yields a lot of fresh
green spirit energy!
This year my time and space considerations are at a premium. As I move the Sparkling
Lotus message and healing meditations into the larger world, I also move myself away
from last year's prime luxury of unlimited time in my gardening space. I planted just
one flat's worth of seedlings. When more emerge, I will fill a second flat with the most
viable transplants. The rest will merge back with Mother at the Gaia altar. It's
not-quite-pictured as the background on the site directory page.
02/05: Here in Sparkling Lotus-land, we're preparing for our first Underground
Greenhouse plantings. It's exciting to contemplate new green life even as the storm
clouds gather for fresh snowfall. I still have some rose campion seeds left for barter or
free will gift. Let me know if you would like some. A lot of my lucky long distance
students are digging and planting even as I sit here warming myself by a fire. Some are
transplanting and a few are reaping delicious harvests! Above image shows recent
snowfall as well as a new spirit loop.
It's seed catalog season!!!
Grab your pens, your wish-lists-in-progress, your reading glasses and start dreaming!
In case you're looking for some new or re-connected inspiration, I've added contact
points for some of my favorite catalogs.
'full service' gardening focus:
The Cook's Garden
Fedco Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Lovely Heirloom and Organic Seeds of Many Kinds:
Planting Seeds Project
Exceptional Flowers:
Select Seeds Antique Flowers
Join Acey's flower medicine discussion group covering all aspects of phytochemical and
electrical healing properties and their practical/evolutionary applications.
Visit the informative Hermit's Grove website and read the extensive seed catalog
reviews.
