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  • Our story in pictures
  • Where we are above Dolceacqua in Liguria, Italy
  • Breath themed events in sacred circle
  • Creating and restoring sacred spaces
  • Our journey with the rose and helichrysum planting
  • The land before & after
  • Planting, feeding, growing & harvesting
  • Preparing, distilling and drying
  • Products and offerings
  • Our Sign
  • Aproaching the property
  • Looking across the valley
  • The original rustico building
  • View from the house garden
  • The restored house and garden
  • steps up to the house
  • Buddha and Jasmin by the house
  • Statue by the house
  • Buddha water feature by caravans
Garden Roses & wildflowers
  • The land above the house we bought for roses!
  • before clearing & cleaning
  • Creating ramps to pass and walk through
  • Clearing some of the heavy wooded overgrowth to allow passage
  • Cleaning the old terraces
  • Finally ready for planting
  • ‘Zappa’ to prepare the soil for planting
  • Huge 20,000 litres water storage for irrigation
  • 150 young bushes to plant in 2019!
  • cleared for planting
  • Protection from weeds for early roses
  • Transformation two years later!!
  • The perfume rose varieties and harvesting the blooms
  • Damascena
  • preparing the petals for drying or distillation
  • drying petals
  • Queen Bourbon
  • Rugosa Hansa
  • Rose Rescht
  • Damascena Kazanlik
  • Centifolia
Distillation
  • Filtered water and rose petals
  • Three hour distillation time
  • Richly scented and oily hydrosol
100ml and 250ml rose hydrosol bottles with jute silver-green bags
  • 400 Helichrysum ready for planting
  • Volunteers helping to dig holes, feed and plant the new Helichrysum
  • View looking down the valley from new Helichrysum plants
  • Helichrysum beginning to bloom
  • Helichrysum near to harvest
  • Offering gratitude to the Archangel statue above the landslide site!
  • Harvesting lavender up with the roses
  • Perfumed lilies, red roses and lavender trio from flowers around the house
  • Magical insect visitors on the lavender
Helichrysium and lavender
  • Rose hydrosol and helichrysum – pink and gold creating a great duo!
  • The marriage of feminine & masculine to birth the divine child within our own hearts
  • Flowers and gift pouches of rose, helichrysum and lavender
  • Relaxing my parasympathetic nervous system and smelling the scent
  • Nourishing myself with a bath of rose petals
  • Sinfonia di fiori, hydrosol blend of roses, helichrysum & lavender
  • At the local market in Dolceacqua, last Sunday of every month
  • Rose hydrosol bottles and dried petals
Honouring the sacred
  • Magdalene statue – showering HER with gratitude, grace & beauty
  • Dried helicrysum and hydrosol
  • Olive oil, Rose vodka & Rose hydrosol
  • Dried products for weddings and gifts
  • Thomas enjoying the roses
  • our daily rest and relax half hour!
  • Senegal roses with helichrysum leaves
  • Fresh petals daily at Magdalene’s feet
  • The Rose that blooms in our own heart
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