Lavender just beginning to put out its first purple stems near the Zen Home door at Gaia's Garden. The Buddha statue and Sanskrit stone are part of the same quiet corner where the year's lavender harvest begins.

Lavender flowering in a pot near the Zen Home door at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas, with a stone Buddha and Sanskrit stone behind, the source plant for our Tranquility Flower Essence

Photographed April 23, 2026 in Gaia Devi Stillwagon's medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas's Ouachita foothills.

This is Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), grown in our medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas. The blooms here become our Tranquility Essence - Organic Lavender Flower Essence.

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