Healing Plants

One of our members writes on Thursday, June 27:

I had a great experience this past 6 weeks that I'd like to share with the group.  I went to a greenhouse with a friend, and fell in love with two gorgeous rose bushes.  They were huge, healthy looking and vibrant.  I have others that I have grown the past few years and am now making my own rose water and rose infused oil.  I thought these plants would make a great addition to our gardens. 

I brought them home and within two days they had yellow and brown spots.  I picked all the diseased leaves off the plant and threw them away.  I had them on my deck as I had not a chance to plant them yet.  We had snow the day before and were likely to get it again, so I was acclimating them before they were planted and awaiting good weather.  The plant continued to worsen and the discoloration spread throughout the leaves very quickly.  I was surprised at how quickly it ravaged the plants and disappointed as well.  It came into my mind to use lemon which is such a great antimold/antifungal.  I decided I had nothing to lose and went with my instincts.

I filled a sprayer with water and a couple drops of lemon essential oil.  I sprayed the plant and then as a a side note, I dumped the rest of the bottle into the soil, hoping to rid the soil of the problem as well.  The plant continued to look worse.  A week later I began to think I would lose them.

My husband had listened to my dismay.  While I was at class one night, he took the roses out to  our chicken coop and planted them in front of the coop itself.  Two weeks later, both roses look as they did when I first bought them:  plenty of beautiful, healthy green leaves and now profusely covered in roses.

This morning I noticed that my grapes are now having a similar issue.  We have had a lot of rain this year.  It is the first year that we are going to get grapes from our second year vines ( a year earlier than what I have read is usual).  They are covered in beautiful grapes and leaves.  Today the same rusty brown stuff reared its ugly head on these incredible plants (they are huge and were so healthy looking).  It has hit quickly.  It's already on leaves and grapes of all 4 of our vines.  I decided to take action with the lemon once again.

My curiosity took hold and I brought a leaf in and looked it up.  It is called botrytis, and it is common on grapes, roses, tomatoes, etc.  It gets into the soil and destroys the fruit and leaves.  It spreads quickly.  So I typed in natural treatments for this, and I see a European reference using Lemon oil in homeopathic doses to treat soil, leaves and grapes.

I am once again delighted by the universal laws that bring us what we need into our minds when we sincerely desire it.  I am also very grateful for the oils and thought others might benefit from this experience.

My love to you all.