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Working with Plants - Joys and Magical Discoveries

Working in the garden you learn how to work with the “Life Force” and you learn about creation. These are powerful learnings that bring about many discoveries.

Working with plants has always been something that I wanted to do. I grew up in a place where there were lots of trees, and a small creek in the back, and much of my childhood was spent outside in Nature. My grandmother was also extremely influential in my love of plants, her thumb is the brightest shade of green and I truly feel she is the best intuitive gardener, and she doesn’t even know it. I cherish the times I spend with her in the garden.

When I was 13 or 14, my dad encouraged me to get a job down the road at a local greenhouse. I worked a lot with plants, taking part in their lives from seedlings to when they were walking out the doors in a gardener’s eager hands. In high school I had no doubt that I wanted to learn about plants in university, so I decided to do my Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology, or Botany. I was so thrilled to learn all about plants, to dissect them under a microscope, learn to identify them, see fossils of them, and learn about their interconnections with other beings in Nature.

When I was finished university, I knew my learning with plants did not end. I knew my science degree was well worth it, but didn’t satisfy my inner longings to delve deeper into learning from Nature and plants. So I embarked on the self-taught journey of learning to work with plants from a spiritual perspective, to really look at my intimate connection with Nature, how it works, and what it is all about. I have to admit, this self-taught journey at the University of Nature is the most exciting, the most enriched learning I have done – it reaches deep into the heart of who I am, and what it means to be alive.

What is it about working with plants that brings me so much joy? In university, when I learned the name of a plant, I found such great satisfaction in this. It was as though I was saying, “I know you!”. I look at the incredible magenta –coloured Phalaenopsis sp. orchid on my desk, and it makes my heart open. The colour is incredible and it is designed so well. The orchid also has a whole set of non-human qualities that make it interesting to learn from. Plants can’t move (*…for this article’s purpose they don’t…magical stuff for another article). Because they can’t move, they surrender to their environment and use their innate tools to maintain their survival. They also don’t have emotions or emotional baggage – they just live in oneness all the time.

A plants perspective of death is also incredible to meditate on. There is no resistance to death as in most humans. I would even say that to a plant, death doesn’t exist because physical death is merely a transformation into another phase of Life Force. In death their bodies are used for microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) and macroorganisms (worms, grubs, etc.). These organisms break down the plant body and in turn excrete it and they too die and give up their bodies, all to provide pure Life Force into the soil. This soil provides life for other plants, other organisms.

It is also incredible to go deeper with learning from Nature. Once your intuition is honed enough, you can ask plants and Nature about answers to questions in the garden. You can ask about life purpose (yours or theirs). You can ask about interesting energetic influences (e.g. the moon on the water in the soil, the influence of planetary energies on the Earth, etc.). You could ask about beings like faeries or dryads (for the answers I have received about them, go to this article).

If you allow yourself to surrender to Nature and choose to learn from Nature, you get a deeper understanding an appreciation of life. You also surprise yourself by what you uncover. Environmental questions? Solved by you and Nature. Inner emotional discord? Soothed by you and Nature. Does this mean that everything you touch turns green with life and vibrancy? No. Does it mean that your gardens never have insects or disease? No. It means that we decide to set aside our human misconceptions about Nature and surrender to learning and working with Nature. This is the joyous and magical journey and it brings compassion and oneness to you on this Earth.