Tips To Get Your Garden Growing With Aromatherapy

With a little planning you could easily create your very own aromatherapy garden on your property. Everybody needs a beautiful garden that provides visual pleasures, but what if taking a walk in your yard or simply opening a windowsill completely covered with aromatic herbs, offering a rainbow of stimulating scents? How about your patio rug carpeted with delicate aromatic herbs spilling from between backyard beds or paving stones brimming with sweet-smelling herbs and flowers (which you could dry and pack into a sachet for your purse or spice shelf) – all of these would add an aroma to your life which would gradually become an integral part of your day to day life. Not only would your home start smelling wonderful, you would be surrounded by an inviting environment for conversation and relaxation. (And why not make it a weekend activity – everyone loves a bit of aromatherapy at the end of a busy day!)

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But how do you go about creating your own aromatherapy garden? (If you’re still not sure what an aromatherapy garden is – well, just go and search ‘aleatherapy’ on Google.) Basically, an aromatherapy garden consists of a set of containers strategically placed around your property with the purpose of encapsulating your plants and flowers and providing a natural source of essential oils. Some people prefer their plants to be grown in pots and some prefer the intimacy of their plant growing in soil. There are many ways of doing this, however one essential component of a successful aromatherapy garden is the use of essential oils.

Essential oils are very powerful plant scents and they have properties that enable them to penetrate your skins tissue and become very potent antioxidants that essentially safeguard your essential oils from harmful oxygen in the air. This means that a certain level of exposure to the plant fragrances is necessary in order to maximise the therapeutic benefits. If you place your fragrant plants too close to radiators or heaters they will simply dissipate the essential oils within the first 24 hours. However, placing your plant just enough to avoid direct contact with heat or sun will ensure a prolonged period of protection.

To start your aromatherapy garden you will need to choose a variety of plant fragrances that are compatible with each other. Some popular choices include lavender, jasmine, eucalyptus, rosemary, lemon balm and sandalwood. You can then place these plants in the various containers you have chosen and depending on which scents you choose you may find that different combinations will smell wonderful.

If you want to create a truly natural aroma from your aromatherapy garden you will need to provide the right conditions for the bees and other insects that are going to be helping you grow the plants. Most plants require temperatures of around seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit during the winter months and between eighty and one hundred degrees Fahrenheit during the summer months. For many of the insects that live in your garden flowers and plants will not really do much in terms of attracting the pollinators that will actually pollinate your plants. However, some of the insects will prefer your plants to other plants. To attract the pollinators that you need to ensure that there are a good supply of flower and plant nectar within the area. You can do this by building small canning jars near the flowers and planting sugar snap peas in the bottom of the jars.

Another way to attract the bees and other insects that are going to help you grow your aromatherapy garden is by adding some lemon or lime juice to the water that is used to refill the jars. When using lemon or lime juice you should ensure that you do not use more than a quarter teaspoon of the solution per four inches of water. You should also ensure that before adding the solution to the water that you have already rinsed your hands in warm water. This should reduce any discomfort that you may feel from getting the chemicals on your skin. The citric acid in the lemon or lime juice is actually what the bees are attracted too; this acid helps to breakdown the pollen that the bees collect in their hives.