These Wild Roses (Rosa laevigata) were harvested at our front door nigh Spring Equinox. From a bush (originating as a paddock foraged cutting) remnant of a cottage garden that outlasted the buildings. Once pot contained, she's now rambling all over one side of the front verandah. Simple white 5 petaled flower, pentacle like, subtle scent, kick ass thorns and alienesque hips with long spines when they mature......
She was hard to ID, but is known as the 'Cherokee Rose' in the USA. An acknowledgement that she grows along the path of the 'Trail of Tears', the Cherokee of all ages were forced to walk, when they were removed from their lands. Her five white petals representing the land, her yellow center the gold they were stolen for, some say, others simply that she grew from the fallen tears of that terrible winters march.
Her flowering here marked a year's returning home, and the beginnings of healing in this space for me, and darling Mush-cat.
I felt it an apt time to make an 'elixir' of sorts, from all stages of hir flowers.
A kinda hybrid version of a flower essence and a tincture. Being 7 years sober, I'm experimenting with booze free herbology.
So, I popped the buds, calyxs, whole flowers and petals into a foundling op shoppe cut crystal bowl of full moon gathered rain water. I let em be thus at the base of the mother plant, in sun, and moon shine for one cycle. Strained out the green folk bits, adding an equal quantity o apple cider vinegar, and some maple syrup as preservatives n for general yumminesses.
I'm calling these ACV experiments 'elixirs'. They are a blend of energetic and physical medicine it seems.
Some follow up ones I brewed for much longer periods, with no water. Like a fresh gifted turmeric root, and cracked pepper one. If you've made or experimented similarly with alcohol free herbalism using apple cider vinegar as your menstruum, I'd love to hear about it. I guess it's food as medicine, a circling back around to my wise wombyn roots....
Turmeric root and Cracked pepper in ACV with Maple Syrup
Ms Sprout an apprentice Booze Free Herbologist
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