Delta Gardens explores the potential of flower essences to enhance health by changing the effects of
Delta Gardens explores the potential of flower essences to enhance health by changing the effects of the past on the body, mind and emotions.
11/28/2025
Enjoy a 30% discount on ALL Delta Gardens essence sets now through Monday, December 1 at midnight!
If you're looking to build your essence collection, now's a great time to make the leap! Visit the Shop section on our website for a complete listing of our flower, gem, and specialty essence sets.
Enter Thanksgiving2025 at checkout to apply the discount to your order!
Free shipping on orders of $150 or more.
If you have any questions about the sale, feel free to ask here or send us an email at office@deltagardens.com.
11/10/2025
Reserve Your Copy of David's New Book!
We're excited to announce that David's new book, "Advanced Flower Essence Healing: New Frontiers in the Field of Bach Flower Remedies," has gone to press and will be released this spring on April 7, 2026!
This book is a compendium of David's thirty-five years of experience as a flower essence producer, practitioner, and educator. It provides a comprehensive, experience-based process for using flower essences in an energetic healing system to alleviate stress, trauma, anxiety, and physical issues. It highlights numerous case studies and offers practical, innovative information about researching the healing patterns of new flower essences. The guide also details ways to upgrade and standardize qualifications for producers and practitioners to ensure the integrity of the field.
To pre-order your copy, contact your local bookstore or select your favorite online book seller on our homepage.
Our Lapis essence is a wonderful resource if you're working through imbalances in the 5th chakra that may manifest in thyroid issues, difficulties with self-expression and/or inflammations in the throat area. Lapis cleanses and invigorates the throat chakra while energetically stimulating the lymphatic system, pituitary and thymus.
It’s a great elixir for people who are shy, introverted or retiring. Taking the gem essence regularly can help us tap into our higher selves and express/release buried emotions.
We offer this elixir as a single essence and in a blend called Lapis Plus - a combination of Aquamarine, Azurite and Lapis - that provides energetic support specifically for the thyroid.
If you have a thyroid issue or another medical condition affecting the throat, be sure to consult with your physician. Our gem elixirs are not a substitute for conventional medical care.
💙 Check out our website for more info on this and other gem essences!
Trauma is like a snake. The tail of the snake lives in the past - in our memories, in our subconscious. The head of the snake resides in the present as we continue to recycle the pain and the imprints of the past. If you’re a trauma-informed bodyworker or therapist, join David on November 8th for a 2.5 hour workshop on Zoom and learn how to use flower essences to support trauma release. The class highlights 36 flower essences that address both past trauma and present toxic cycles.
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10/09/2025
Trauma is like a snake. The tail of the snake lives in the past - in our memories, in our subconscious. The head of the snake resides in the present as we continue to recycle the pain and the imprints of the past. If you work with trauma-clients, you won't want to miss this workshop which features a set of 36 flower essences that addresses both past trauma and present toxic cycles resulting from a traumatic past. Exciting, informative, refreshing, original. Join David on November 8th on Zoom - 10:30 am-1:00 pm ET.
If you're a therapist or trauma-informed professional and would like to integrate flower essences into your work with clients, join us in November for a new workshop on how to choose and use essences for trauma. The class will highlight two types of flower essences: those that shift the energetic imprints of past trauma and those that support new behaviors in the present.
Topics:
❋ An introduction to the trauma model
❋ Inventory of 18 flower essences to shift imprints of the past
❋ Preconditions for trauma release
❋ Two methods for stimulating trauma release
❋ How to select trauma essences
❋ How we remain in the trauma loop
❋ Inventory of 18 flower essences to shift adaptive behaviors in the present
❋ How to select and use these essences
📆 Date & Time: Saturday, November 8, 2025 ~ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm ET
💸 Cost: $195
🌻 Includes: Workshop slides & recording
💻 Location: Zoom
🕰 Program Length: 2.5 hours
We'll email you a Zoom link and program materials a couple of days before the class.
Can't attend live? No problem! Watch the recording on your own time and get in touch with us after-the-fact with any questions.
🌺 Workshop participants will receive 30% off our new Trauma Set, a collection of 36 essences we've curated to support in-depth trauma work - $248.50 instead of $355. We'll send you a discount code after you sign up.
❋ Pictured here: Blackberry Lily ~ Iris domestica ~ for releasing repressed sexual trauma; for healing deep fears around sexuality; for unconscious or unresolved problems in the past concerning close relationships
09/30/2025
We’ve been waiting for our Jerusalem Artichoke patch (Helianthus tuberosus) to bloom, and the time has finally come! The plants are probably 10+ feet tall now. We had to break out our ladder to get to the flowers and make the essence the other day.
This is a new one for us - inspired by our clients at Delta Gardens who are managing insulin-resistance, prediabetes and diabetes. Jerusalam Artichoke shows promise as an energetic support for people who are working to balance blood sugar levels. The tubers contain high levels of inulin - a prebiotic fiber that can improve insulin sensitivity and glucose control.
The essence is not yet for sale, but if you’d like to learn more about it or schedule a flower essence session, reach out to us here or email us at office@deltagardens.com.
09/23/2025
Native to Western Asia, Rosa Multiflora was introduced in the U.S in the late 1800s as a natural fence for livestock and for breeding purposes with other roses. It is now considered invasive. The small, five-petaled flowers on this wild shrub appear in late May and persist until late June - the blooms cluster in corymbs and have a heavenly scent.
There are many herbal uses for this plant. The flowers are used for rosewater and for skin creams. The hips are full of vitamin C and antioxidants. It has been used as an anti-inflammatory and a digestive aid, and the root extract has been shown to reduce certain types of dermatitis.
Invasive plants often have a strong lesson to give humankind. The flower essence first produces a deep calming effect on the heart which is helpful for those who feel worried or anxious. Its calming effect provides a scaffolding for suppressed thoughts and feelings to surface and be reviewed.
With this essence, one begins to see more clearly how others are a reflection of the self. In this way, Rosa Multiflora teaches us about the self, separating essential soul qualities from lower impulses. Over time, a deeper sense of self-acceptance and self-love develop. One also finds connection, acceptance and love for others.
The clustering aspect of the flowers into corymbs signifies its support for our social nature - the essence is a good choice for use in groups to enhance harmony. It’s also helpful for those who have separated themselves from socializing due to judgement, hurt or disappointment.
Use this essence to help children learn to care for others and to socialize animals who have been abused or who have been tamed from the wild.
Our essence-making season is winding down, but we’re still catching a few late-bloomers here and there like this White Sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana), a new addition to our Artemisia Set which we first assembled 10+ years ago. Plants in the artemisia family are known for their anti-malarial, anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic and anti-bacterial properties.
We use the flower essences in the Artemisia Set to support clients whose energy fields have been compromised by Babesia, a blood parasite transmitted by ticks. If you’d like to learn more about the Artemisia Set and how we use it, send us a message here or drop us an email at office@deltagardens.com.
Our Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) is HUGE this year. Whenever one of our plants has an especially robust season, we like to remake the essence even if we have plenty in our inventory. We can’t resist working with flowers that are so abundant and vigorous - all of that energy translates into any essence we create.
Stinging Nettle helps to release intense emotions that are anchored in untreated past pain. It's helpful for people who hold suppressed rage or grief from past hurts or who feel generally misunderstood, shunned or judged. The essence is a resource for anyone whose emotional reactions seem out-of-proportion to present events.
The energetic action of the essence is deep. The plant’s sting (from tiny hairs on its leaves and stems) and its drooping flowers suggest its influence over deep parts of the psyche contained in chakras 1, 2 and 3. Unprocessed material from the past (stored in these energy centers) tends to fuel irrational responses to people and circumstances in our present lives.
Stinging Nettle awakens deep layers within these chakras, allowing us to understand our responses and work with our buried personal issues rather than degenerate into externalizing and blaming.
For more info on the Stinging Nettle essence, check out our website. 🌿💚
Join us on August 10th at 10:30 am ET for the next Devic Healing Temple, a free flower essence session facilitated by David on Zoom. We've been offering these events since 2020, and we focus on different themes each time - most recently, cultivating a joyful heart and connecting to our divine nature.
Before we announce a theme for this session, we'd love to hear from you. What issues would YOU most like to address in the next Devic Healing Temple? Are you noticing any themes or patterns in your life that you'd like to engage with flower essences?
Send your suggestions to office@deltagardens.com by July 31st. We'll gather your ideas together and create a session to support common themes.
📆 Date & Time: August 10th at 10:30 am ET
✨ Cost: Free
⏳ Duration: 30-45 minutes
💻 Location: Zoom
🌻 Zoom Access: Click "Download Now" on your Order Confirmation page to download the Zoom link - or look for an email from SendOwl Downloads which will also include the sign-in information.
*If you don't receive an email from SendOwl, check your spam folder.
Trauma adds fire to the watery nature of chakra 2. This causes the signals regarding pleasure and satisfaction to be skewed, blocked or not received. This often happens when the nurture pathways from mother are interfered with during childhood. Although Water Lily is not an essence to heal the mother relationship, the traumas it addresses are most often related to the quality of love coming from the mother. This type of trauma includes but is not limited to:
✹ Not feeling wanted
✹ Being adopted
✹ Being neglected or deprived
✹ Being abused by mother
✹ Feeling disliked by mother
✹ Not feeling protected by mother
✹ Receiving constant criticism
✹ Feeling controlled
✹ Feeling not accepted or understood
✹ Feeling abandoned
For the full story on our Water Lily essence, check out David's latest post on the Delta Gardens blog!
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Founded in the mid-1980s by David Dalton, Delta Gardens is dedicated to flower essence production, research, clinical practice and education. David has been making flower essences in New England research gardens and in natural habitats throughout the world for over thirty years. Since the beginning of his unique flower essence adventure, David has combined clinical thinking, intuition and a strong relationship with nature to create an extensive collection of products that support emotional, mental and physical health.
As an essence producer and practitioner, David has realized two important truths that have guided his work - and the direction of Delta Gardens - for many decades.
1. Partnership with Nature
Creating potent flower essences requires several ingredients including strong sun exposure, healthy plants and pure water and soil - but the most important element in producing high quality flower essences is the partnership between the flower essence maker and nature. Taking care to capture this relationship in the production process makes for more powerful, deeply-acting essences.
2. Flower Essences and Physical Health
Traditionally, flower essences have been used to address mental and emotional stress, but flower essences can also have a profound effect on the health of the body. At Delta Gardens, research into the properties of flower essences is an ongoing endeavor through daily, extensive work with clients. It is in this crucible that the real range and potency of the essences unfolds into clinical certainties.
