Chamomile & Cardamom

11/02/2023

❤️❤️❤️ Works ❤️ every ❤️ time! ❤️❤️❤️

04/23/2023

https://chamomileandcardamom.com/design-studio/

The blog is for anyone interested in pondering our natural world. The gardening and floristry are my way of respecting its usefulness , honoring its beauty and bounty, and meeting the floral design needs of as many people as possible.

03/25/2023

Summer's Coming! Dried Floral Wreath

Sourced from , right here in Owosso, MI! Bringing together both growers and designers with sustainability in mind, I am so grateful to be a new buyer member this year! Dried florals, (excepting eucalyptus, baby’s breath and grape vine wreath form) from in Swartz Creek, MI–and I could not be more keen on these selections! Thanks for tiding me over girls!

03/12/2023

I never really thought much of bees when I was younger. At first this was because I was just a kid. Then, around age 7, I had the misfortune of being stung. It happened right on the bottom of my foot, while riding my bike. I learned three things that day: 1. getting stung really hurts, 2. my mom was...

02/25/2023

Valentine’s Day array when outside’s nothing but gray! ❤️ These were supermarket gifts from my sweetie, so definitely not locally sourced…but they were very pretty, and I still got 10 days out of them ;)

02/25/2023

Hello out there fellow nature lovers! I’ve decided to do something a bit different this time around. I’m going to tell you a story. It’s one I found in a book called Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland, by Lisa Schneidau. Filled not only with charm, it is also Schneidau’s retelling ...

02/25/2023

Imagine if you can, a world where you wake up each day, believing all that surrounds you holds equal value to yourself, or those you most cherish. One where you know all things not as “things,” at all, but as other beings. You are able to acknowledge that though a wind storm destroyed the tree b...

02/25/2023

You may or may not remember me saying, (in Part I) that the words pharmacy and pharmacist are not entirely synonymous with the British and American versions of the word apothecary. Happily, I’ve finally reached a point where I can say why I believe this to be true. No doubt you already have some c...

02/25/2023

Misguided beliefs of yore aside, by the close of the Middle Ages, the apothecary had become, not only a household name, but also instrumental to the effective practice of medicine. Relied upon for extensive knowledge of medicinal plants, he was the community’s pharmacist, and preparer of the docto...

02/25/2023

In Part I of this series, we left our apothecary in his earliest origins. Not yet the apothecary he would become, but rather a predecessor to that. This post briefly picks up from there; however, the bulk of information actually concerns the predominant scientific and medical beliefs that most inf...

02/25/2023

Ah, the apothecary. A word that describes both person and place. Simply typing it out evokes myriad romantic images of old world charm. Regency era gentlemen wearing tail coats and stockings. Dark, dingy, London shops with walls of wooden shelves housing to***co, herbs and animal parts in various co...

10/15/2022