Plant dynamics

The garden nasturtium is a plant native to South America and Mexico that was introduced to Europe in the 17th century, where it was immediately appreciated for its beautiful orange-red colour.

This rather perennial summer plant belongs to the Tropaeolaceae family, a small family of less than a hundred species, of which the garden nasturtium is the best known in France.

It owes its name to the shape of its flower, the base of which is an elongated spur: the flower, which is cultivated in monasteries, resembles the hood of a monk's garden nasturtium.

This flower seduces us with its generosity.

It is ornamental, wrapped around trees or in palisades, edible for its leaves and flowers, and very useful in the kitchen garden, especially in permaculture.

In fact, it attracts aphids, freeing the vegetable plants.

Garden nasturtium also attracts bees for its nectar (and hummingbirds in tropical countries).

The plant flowers from June to October.

The flowers are corolla-shaped, yellow to red to orange.

The leaves are a very rounded heart, the seat of emotion, and are a beautiful bright green, as pleasing as the colour of the flowers, forming a striking contrast.

The garden nasturtium is also a liana plant, which wraps itself around vegetation or creeps along the ground.

Like all lianas, it represents a mind that gets lost in the heights, here in the world of the intellect, and forgets to keep its feet on the ground...

But the Garden Nasturtium, with its warm, sunny colour, invites us to put warmth in our hearts and brings us the same luminous vitality as it unfolds to grow, its flowers wide open to the sun.

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Garden Nasturtium is a plant that transmits qualities of warmth, generosity, love and benefit.

Very sunny, very bright, it activates the energy in our whole being.

Although it has more of the flowers (the head) in the air, it asks us to bring our intellect, love and passion to the heart of our work.

This is also indicated by the many green leaves in the shape of little hearts that unfold gracefully and abundantly, like all our research and projects that go in all directions.

It is also a flower that awakens us thanks to its bright colour, stimulating our vision, giving us a wider view, but also more in harmony with our higher self (soul and unconscious).

Even in the language of flowers we can see the transformation of the Garden Nasturtium: it used to mean "you can't love" or "nothing seems to enchant you" (because everything in the mind is cold!).

Today the Garden Nasturtium expresses loving passion, a passion that burns like fire, like the colour of the flower.

Thoughts

• I have a cold again. 
• He has to push himself, he keeps going in circles! 
• It has become an obsession, I spend hours on it. 
• I have just finished four years of university, I feel tired. 
• Let's look at the facts. 
• The numbers are all that matter.

Advantages

The elixir of the Garden Nasturtium flower has a warming and calming effect.

For people who lack warmth, both emotionally and physically, it is an elixir that comes to comfort and bring out their warm and bright energy.

Therefore, the elixir of the Garden Nasturtium flower is used for people who tend to disconnect from their emotions and work only on the intellect.

Examples of professions: researchers, writers, journalists, engineers, teachers, but also all students.

Sometimes this emotional dryness becomes so severe that it leads to physical symptoms for which the Garden Nasturtium flower essence will be beneficial.

These include dry skin or eyes, susceptibility to viral (colds) and bacterial infections, poor circulation and varicose veins, heart problems, extreme fatigue or even lethargy.

Thanks to its beautiful red-orange colour, Garden Nasturtium Flower Elixir is also suitable for stimulating vision, especially when your eyes are tired due to overwork, and restores energy at this level.

Finally, for people who are obsessed with their research, their project, their work, Garden Nasturtium Flower Elixir helps them to reconnect with their body's needs and therefore to respect and care for it.