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Meeting Plant Relatives
Meeting Our Relatives
Plants have existed on Earth far longer than humans. In fact, plants are the main reason we are here at all. We need them for our survival — we can’t eat sunlight, but plants can. Through the miraculous process of photosynthesis, they turn sunlight into life, creating the conditions for all other beings to thrive.
Plants supply the oxygen we breathe, nourish us with food, clothe us with their fibres, and provide materials to build, medicines to heal, and fuel to keep us warm and cook our food. Their presence has fed and supported life for millennia.
Plants model resilience, adaptability, and flourishing. I see them as our Plantcestors: plant ancestors who hold deep wisdom. There is so much we can learn from them to inspire how we live today.
Ways of Getting to Know Plants
If you think of how you might get to know a new person in your life, it usually begins with attention, curiosity, and time spent together. Yet here in Europe and in many other European influenced countries we tend to have a dominating relationship with the plants who live around us. This imbalance is reflected in the language we use to describe our interactions: we train, prune, cut back, force.
We divide plants into categories; beneficial and beautiful, or weeds, invasives, or pests. These judgements are rarely about the plants themselves, but about how they affect our own lives. A “weed,” after all, is simply a plant growing somewhere we don’t want it.
Take Nettle, for example. As children, many of us are taught to fear or despise ki — to avoid the sting, to pull ki up, to keep ki away. But let’s look at Nettle through a different lens.
Nettle is associated with the element of fire and is a powerful adaptogen. Ki also tells us much about the quality of the soil where ki grows. There is medicine for humans and others in every part of ki’s being; rich in vitamins and minerals. In spring, the young leaves are a nourishing tonic and make a delicious soup. Nettle fibres can be woven into strong, beautiful clothing.
Ki thrives on what we call wasteland, transforming poor soil into vibrant ecosystems. Nettle multiplies quickly, offering habitat and food for countless other creatures. Ki is deeply resilient — have you ever tried to remove Nettle from your garden?
Nettles live in mine, and I’ve come to see them as generous neighbours providing habitat, food, and medicine for me and for many other beings. If you have Nettles living near you, take a little time to go and sit with them. Approach with curiosity and listen with an open heart…
You’ll find several ways of meeting with plants here.
Plant Essences from Wildheart Alchemy
Step into a quiet, living relationship with wild and cultivated plant beings through subtle, soul-nourishing essences.
In the wild places of the Earth, plants usually grow in community — adapting, communicating, and thriving. Each carries their own living wisdom, shaped by its relationship with the land. When a plant essence is made, this subtle intelligence is transferred to water, offering a gentle reconnection with nature’s guidance.
At Wildheart Alchemy, these are plant consciousness in a bottle — a bridge between your inner landscape and the quiet whispers of the Earth.
How Plant Essences Can Support You
Plant essences can help you:
- Recognise and release outdated beliefs and patterns
- Strengthen your energetic boundaries
- Find deep calm and steadiness within
- Ease worrying and repetitive thoughts
- Support restful, nourishing sleep
- Guide you gently to release stuckness from your body and psyche
Each essence works with you — not on you — meeting you where you are.
Wildheart Alchemy essences come from biodynamic or organic gardens, and wild landscapes where plant beings thrive. They’re made with care to maintain ecosystem balance.
Many are created through the living essence method, which uses no picked flowers. Instead, spring water sits nearby so flowers can offer their energy freely. When blooms are used, only one or a few are taken, as each holds the complete energetic pattern of the plant.
Working in Partnership with Nature
Each bottle holds:
- Sun or moon energy
- Pure spring water
- The energetic imprint of the plant being
- The life force of nature
Essences are preserved in water and a little alcohol. They can be taken orally, used on acupressure points, in creams, or sprays. They’re gentle, safe for everyone, and work well alongside other healing approaches.
*They can also be supplied as alcohol free xylitol pilules
Wildheart Alchemy Plant Essence Blends
“Every essence is a conversation — a meeting between plant and human, Earth and spirit, body and soul.”
Each Wildheart Alchemy Essence Blend is created as an offering — a collaboration with the plants, guided by intuition, season, and place.
These essences are gentle yet profound allies, working with your emotional and energetic body to restore balance, clarity, and connection.
They invite you to listen — to your own rhythms, to the whisper of the plants, and to the deeper intelligence of life itself.
Each blend is unique, formulated with reverence and care to support transformation, healing, and the remembering of our kinship with all living beings.
How to Use
Take four drops of your chosen blend in a glass of water in the morning and again in the evening. Sip slowly and with intention. Or follow your intuition!
The blends are also available as mister sprays, with added essential oils for topical use only, this is a beautiful way to invite their energy into your space or onto your skin.
Where it Starts
Each essence begins with relationship — a quiet conversation between you and the plants.
Beyond the blends, there are times when life calls for something more personal — an essence made just for you…
If you feel drawn to journey more closely with the plants, you may wish to receive your own bespoke essence blend — created through a one-to-one consultation.
Together we explore where you are in your life and what you are calling in, listening for the plant allies that wish to offer their support.
Your personal essence is then blended with care and attention, crafted to support your emotional and energetic needs as you move through this chapter of your life.
🌿 You can learn more or book a session and begin your conversation with the plants.
What to Expect
Each session begins with conversation and reflection — a space to arrive, breathe, and notice what feels alive for you right now.
Through intuitive listening and gentle questioning and connection with the plants, a blend is prepared that meets your current needs.
Your bespoke essence may support:
- Life transitions, uncertainty, or new beginnings
- Emotional or energetic overwhelm
- Grief, loss, or fatigue
- Creative growth and self-expression
- A wish to deepen your connection with the more-than-human world
Sessions last around an hour and can take place online or in person, depending on where you are.
Afterwards, your personal blend will be sent to you, along with clear guidance for use.
After Your Session
Your bespoke blend becomes a companion, a living ally that continues to unfold their wisdom over time.
You may notice shifts in perspective, dreams, emotions, or creative flow.
Simple journalling, drawing, or sitting quietly with the essence can help deepen the dialogue between you and the plants.
Every essence is a reminder of our belonging — to ourselves, to the land, and to the living web that holds us all.
I work with trusted essences from:
- Australian Bush Flower Essences
- Bach Flower Essences (Sun Essences)
- Bloesem Remedies
- Living Essences
- Wildheart Alchemy
Ways to Work Together
You may wish to begin with a single session or continue your journey over several months.
Each pathway offers space for deepening trust, integration, and support.
6-Month Wildheart Path
A sustained companionship with the plants — six meetings over six months, each with its own essence blend.
This journey offers a container for ongoing transformation, healing, and creative renewal.
We walk together through the seasons, deepening your relationship with the plant kin and your own inner landscape.
Includes:
6 x monthly sessions
6 x bespoke flower essence blends sent to you
Weekly email support between meetings if required.
£525
3-Month Plant Ally Journey
A deeper exploration over three months, offering steady support through an unfolding process.
We meet once a month to reflect, listen, and co-create an essence for each stage of your journey.
This rhythm allows time for the essences to integrate and for new insights to emerge.
Includes:
3 x monthly sessions
3 x bespoke flower essence blends sent to you
Email support if required
£275
Single Session
A one-to-one meeting (online or in person) to explore where you are and what is needed.
Together we listen for the plants that wish to support you and create a personal blend.
Perfect for new beginnings, moments of transition, or when clarity and grounding are needed.
Includes:
1 x 60 minute session
1 x bespoke flower essence blend sent to you
Optional follow up call
£95
An Invitation
If you feel called to work with the plants in this way, I warmly invite you to begin with the package that feels right for where you are now.
Each pathway is held with care, confidentiality, and deep respect for your process.
May these meetings with the plants remind you of your own rooted wisdom and the quiet strength that grows from connection.
If you’re unsure which path is right for you, I’m happy to talk it through and find what feels most supportive at this moment in your life.
Ways of Meeting Plants
There are many ways to come into relationship with plants - each one an opportunity to listen, notice, and share breath with the living world.
Some are quiet and contemplative; others are playful, sensory, or creative. All are rooted in curiosity, respect, and reciprocity.
Ways I meet plants include:
- Sitting quietly with them, listening and observing.
- Drawing or intuitive mark-making with plant kin.
- Writing, intuitive writing, or plant-led writing — letting words arise in response to a plant’s presence or message.
- Breathing with plants — a simple meditation of exchange and awareness.
- Giving gifts of water, breath, hair, song, attention
- Creating Earthart with natural materials offered by the land.
- Making and drinking fresh infusions.
- Spending time each day with a single plant over a period — a kind of diet or feast to deepen understanding.
- Taking an inner journey to meet a plant being through imagination or dream.
- Retreating for several days to be immersed in the presence of a particular plant community.
- Plant bathing — based on the tradition of plant limpias, letting the senses open and the nervous system soften.
- Growing a plant and observing their life cycle
These practices deepen trust and understanding and they are also at the heart of how I create personal, bespoke essences — through relationship, listening, and co-creation with plant kin.
I occasionally offer opportunities to join me in some of these practices, both online and in person — gentle gatherings where we slow down, listen, and meet the plants in our own
Reflections on Meeting the Plants
Unlike many plant profiles which tell you what a plant is good for and how to use it, whether for gardening, plant essences, or herbal medicine, my notes come from encounters guided by curiosity and respect.
I don’t go out armed with a field guide listing colonising Latin names. I’m sure plant beings were given names long before the plant hunters came along, by the humans living alongside them, and those names often reflected some physical characteristic or felt quality.
A small caveat here: yes, if we’re going to spend time with plants, we do need to know they’re safe to ingest or otherwise interact with (much like people!). But when our first meeting is coloured by thoughts such as “this is the name for this plant, and it’s an invasive!” — the scene is already set for an unsuccessful encounter.
So these notes are drawn from my impressions and interactions with plant kin. They are not lists of what conditions these plants help to ‘cure’.
Have you ever met someone who, on first meeting, looked you up and down and you instantly knew they were assessing whether you were of use to them? It’s much the same with plants.
Over the years of essence-making, feasting with plants, and sharing notes with others who do similar work, I’ve seen that the information gained is always about relationship — not just the plant. The insights are often remarkably consistent, though expressed through individual language and experience.
When I offer in-person plant explorations, I never announce the name of the being we’re meeting. Instead, I invite each person to note their own sensory impressions first. Only later do we learn the plant’s name.
This has a dual purpose:
- When we have a label for someone or something, we often think we already know it — and stop being curious. We cease to truly see, simply adding it to the bank of information we already hold about that name.
- This practice helps people to develop and trust their intuition. When they see that the things they wrote down — perhaps thinking, “this is just my imagination” — are very similar to what others observed, it becomes a step towards building a strong intuitive muscle.
I hope you enjoy these very personal accounts of my ongoing relationships with various plant kin, and that you feel inspired to deepen your own connections too. You are always welcome to join one of my classes, Guided by Nature sessions, or other offerings to explore this way of being in relationship with the living world.
Almond
Sierra Nevada mountains
Almond invites a pause amid external chaos, guiding us to find stillness within and respond to life from an authentic inner place rather than react impulsively.
Bladder Vetch
Andalucía
Teaches us how to live in community for the good of the whole, without sacrificing ourselves. Supports both social harmony and inner bodily balance.
Fireweed
By a fjord in Norway
A pioneer plant who thrives after fire or land disturbance. Offers courage, solidarity, and presence — helping us stand strong and look ahead with hope.
Hawthorn
Heart of England
Hawthorn encourages us to see through the eyes of the heart, to feel ki’s protection, and rest into ki’s gentleness, even amidst life’s storms.
Knotweed
Norway
An often-misunderstood plant with deep resilience. Works right to the core of an issue, cleansing and balancing at a cellular level, pushing through tough terrain both physically and energetically.
Mimosa
Andalucia
Mimosa demonstrates the interconnections of the web of life with its bright yellow pom-poms. Reminding us of evolution/involution and how we can receive and give back to the web with every breath we take.
Olive
Andalucia
Olive is a soothing and revitalising essence for exhaustion and burnout — bringing a fresh wave of vitality, like spring returning after a hard winter.
Waters Meet
Pentland Firth, Scotland
Made at the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea — the most volatile waters around these Isles. Waters Meet brings support for integrating any powerful, opposing forces within and around us.