Datura is a baneful, night blooming flower. Deeply magical and mysterious, it has a love of blooming on full moon nights and has the most intoxicating perfume. Beloved by Sphinx moths, they are the lead pollinator on Datura with their extending proboscis(+10cm!) able to reach deep into the nectar canals of Datura blooms
I love moths. I set up a moth light throughout the summer to see what species are around. Night nature is fascinating and there are so many different things happening that you would never see otherwise. This weird obsession has brought me down the rabbit hole after so many other things but one of them was growing a moth garden. Several species of nightblooming flowers, favoured by certain species of moths. I planted 4oclocks, moonflower, brugmansia, primrose and datura. The nectar of Datura has a buzzy, drug like affect on Sphinx moths that keeps them coming back for more and so does the scent of Datura for me; it draws you in
Datura is a bright luminescence in the dark, giving you clarity and vision through periods of shadow work and transformation. Datura asks us to release what has ended and give death to the energies in our life that are overdue for dismissal. Surrender and let go, death offers new beginnings. Datura holds your hand through the dark and helps you journey to the reality you're calling in
Datura flower essence was made on the night of the August Lughnasadh full moon; deep in the garden with stars shining and moths fluttering.
Datura is a baneful, night blooming flower. Deeply magical and mysterious, it has a love of blooming on full moon nights and has the most intoxicating perfume. Beloved by Sphinx moths, they are the lead pollinator on Datura with their extending proboscis(+10cm!) able to reach deep into the nectar canals of Datura blooms
I love moths. I set up a moth light throughout the summer to see what species are around. Night nature is fascinating and there are so many different things happening that you would never see otherwise. This weird obsession has brought me down the rabbit hole after so many other things but one of them was growing a moth garden. Several species of nightblooming flowers, favoured by certain species of moths. I planted 4oclocks, moonflower, brugmansia, primrose and datura. The nectar of Datura has a buzzy, drug like affect on Sphinx moths that keeps them coming back for more and so does the scent of Datura for me; it draws you in
Datura is a bright luminescence in the dark, giving you clarity and vision through periods of shadow work and transformation. Datura asks us to release what has ended and give death to the energies in our life that are overdue for dismissal. Surrender and let go, death offers new beginnings. Datura holds your hand through the dark and helps you journey to the reality you're calling in
Datura flower essence was made on the night of the August Lughnasadh full moon; deep in the garden with stars shining and moths fluttering.
