by Svetlana Konnikova  

For many centuries humans have developed a close contact with the world of plants, but even so we have strayed far from Mother Nature. Increasingly, as time goes by, we lose this valuable connection with the perfect world of trees and herbs. More and more our precious rain forests with their abundance of healing plants are being destroyed by the bulldozer’s bite. Each day we inhale the toxic fumes of gasoline and other chemicals and the living aromas of natural plants disappear from our homes in exchange for the so-called beauty of silk flowers.                                                        

Less and less we breathe in the marvelous natural scents of trees, earth, and snow that bring us health and energy. When I was a little girl, we always had plants, such as eucalyptus, or a branch of a coniferous tree in our home. Near our house grew a proud pine which we knew always gave us energy and oxygen. In our garden Grandma cultivated mint and lavender; the modest, but fragrant chamonile; oregano; and King’s clover or thyme. She sewed by hand small pretty cotton sachets, which she stuffed with fresh herbs and hung in our closets and on nails throughout our house. They emitted an intense aroma that made us feel as if we had come to change our clothes in a fragrant garden.

Now we have a great solution to get close to nature: Stream Garden.  Read my next post about it. You’ll learn how to start a real, green garden in your home or in your office. You can plant there so many herbs, berries, fruits and vegetables and save lots of money on expensive organics, start eating healthier, and go green with your environment.  Look at these pictures of the garden. Don’t you want to have the same or even better?!   

 Source: Mama’s Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Living by Svetlana Konnikova, page 211. Aurora Publishers

Photos: Tiny Daffodills by Petr Kratochvil; Promenade in the Forest by Peter Griffin