Virtual Garden Tour

Machaelle and Toby IN 1976, WE DECLARED PERELANDRA a nature sanctuary and research center. It is dedicated to the discovery and practice of nature's principles of balance as taught by nature.

Our primary focus has been in areas of co-creative partnerships we humans can potentially have with nature — such as gardening, agriculture and health. The direction and timing at Perelandra have been set by nature and this in itself has been a tremendous learning process for us. Nature's sense of timing and direction tends to defy our sense of logic! The research and work that has gone on here is a result of careful listening to nature's input as to what is to be done, step by step.

Since beginning my work with nature, I have seen proven over and over that if we are going to reestablish ecological balance and live as an active contributor rather than a challenger to that balance, we are going to have to look to nature to teach us, give us answers, and help us pull out of our present ecological downspiral.

If ever there was a time to create a conscious and active co-creative partnership with nature, it seems it is now.

Machaelle Wright
Perelandra, 2007

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 1: Introduction

Part 1: IntroductionThe garden area includes the shed (that red barn with the green roof), the greenhouse (just in front of the barn), tomato patch (just in front of us), the ponds (to the left), and to our right, along the south fence, the Insect Sanctuary, to the east of that is the wildflower ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 2: Garden Center

Part 2: The Center of the GardenAt the very center of the Perelandra garden is a Genesa® crystal. It consists of four circles made of copper tubing. Each intersects the others at specific angles, forming a ball and creating an energy antenna. The Genesa® crystal shape was discovered within the DNA ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 3: Straw-Mulched Sections

Part 3: The Straw-Mulched SectionsIt helps to remember when one is trying to understand what's going on at Perelandra that this is a research garden, not a home-kitchen garden. Although we get a lot of produce out of the garden, produce is not the main focus. It centers around the research, the ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 4: Rose Ring

Part 4: The Rose RingThe rose ring encircles the entire main section of the garden. The rose bushes were planted in 1984. Up until that time, the outermost ring of the garden consisted of annuals — usually nasturtiums. In 1984, nature informed Machaelle that the balance of the garden was such that ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 5: Tomato Patch

Part 5: The Tomato PatchIn the very center of the tomato patch are slabs of amethyst and clear quartz crystals which link the patch to the larger garden. Bronze fennel is planted in the center area, and around this are calcite and local rocks.As with the larger garden, the ratio, colors and balance ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 6: Insect Sanctuary

Part 6: The Insect SanctuaryThe Insect Sanctuary was requested by nature and added to the garden environment in 1992. We like to refer to it as Bug Boulevard. However, nature explained that this space was not designed to specifically attract insects. We already had a number of areas in the garden ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 7: Fish Pond and Tadpool

Part 7: The Fish Pond & The "Tadpool"This is a favorite resting stop for Perelandra Open House visitors.The pond was designed and positioned by nature, dug by Clarence (with a little help from a backhoe), lined by Dupont (it has a plastic liner), filled by the hose, and planted and "rock walled ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 8: Woods-Edge and Meadow

Part 8: The Woods-Edge & Meadow and the Wildflower TriangleThe woods-edge is the area just outside the east garden fence that contains cedar trees, bushes, wildflowers, berry thickets and poison ivy. It stretches from the garden to the road in front of Perelandra.The meadow is the area next to ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 9: Cabin

Part 9: The CabinThe cabin was designed by Machaelle and built in 1983 when she was invited by nature to join the garden area. It is used for the essences tincture production and in 2005, it became the Garden Assistants office as well. (We'll take this over a top floor corner suite in a high rise ...

2007 Virtual Garden Tour 10: Elemental Annex

Part 10: The Elemental AnnexThe elemental annex is the nature spirit center at Perelandra. We think of it as the elemental office building! It was dedicated to nature and activated by the nature spirit level and Machaelle in 1982 when Machaelle agreed to shift the garden from one that was focused on ...