Archive - The Medicine Garden

Fireflies at midnight

MONKEYFLOWERS: Monkeyflowers grow in moist places throughout the country.

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Night of summer stars

A solstice note

Jun 21 •

In the spirit of flowers

June Full Moon Offering

Jun 11 •

May 2025

Where to go from here

A roadmap for uncertain times

May 29 •

Wild plums, wild heart

POLEMONIUMS: The slender-stemmed Polemoniums (8 inches to 4 feet high) grow in cool open woods or on moist slopes, mainly in the West.

May 13 •

April 2025

The heroine's journey

You have to leave, but you can't return

Apr 26 •

The cosmic wedding

BUNCHBERRY: The flowers of bunchberry, also known as Dwarf Cornel, resemble those of flowering dogwood — and with good reason, for the plants are close…

Apr 14 •

March 2025

Under the old growth

BLUE-EYED-GRASS: These starlike blue or violet flowers, with yellow centers, are borne at the top of slender, flattened stems, a foot or more high.

Mar 28 •

Spring arrived and I missed it

“The California poppy, state flower of California, is one of the best-known western flowers.

Mar 22 •

Cornflower medicine

March full moon musing

Mar 15 •

A moon full of mullein

“Great mullein is a very common European plant of roadsides, fields, and dry waste places.

Mar 12 •

Jewelweed & the secret heart garden

“JEWELWEEDS Two species, also known as touch-me-nots, grow in the East and 4 in the far West.

Mar 4 •

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