After all, who else would have situated the tiny, fragile harebell flowers which dotted the slim, soft fairy grasses of British heaths? Every british child knew that fairies wore Harebells for hats, and they often spotted them floating in to work their faerie magic.

I always loved the Harebells of Britain, and I was one day rewarded, when, many years after we had we had emigrated to Canada, I spotted the British variety living close to our towns' Hydro power station.

I dug two of them from the field, and transplanted them into my friends' one hundred acres, situated some twenty miles away in Ferguson Falls. That rural place was quite magic with its' sparklingly clean trout stream, marshes, and thick cedar woods.

We picked acres of raspberries and blackberries in the fields there for many summers. Once, when sunbathing in the nude on one of my friends' meadows , our salts attracted a tiny fawn, who bounded out of nowhere to settle at our feet!

In a clearing, I had thought of planting flowers in between the boulders which flanked a stream which fanned out into an open marsh, suitable for canoeing. It was beauteous with Marsh Marigolds, Loosestrife, and large, very round boulders, as well as myriads of colored dragonflies.

We spent many hours dawdling around the stream edge, and ,the year I dug up the Harebells, I planted them in a small sheltered spot next to the stream, where thy took very well.

By high summer the Cosmos I had planted were fernily overwhelming in their tossing, gentle beauty next to the waters. We paddled and cooled ourselves in the stream, and felt the euphoria that country peope know to be perfection- utter privacy and peace.

My Harebells stood, tough and delicate in the sunshine. Each week, when we came to visit the "garden", I checked my Harebells. Were the seeds ready yet? No sooner than it seemed the seeds should be ripe than lo!- someone ooze loud, stinken motorcycle tracks showed evidence that man had been, had plucked my delicate experiment clean out of its rock garden bed, reducing me to a ball of angry flame!

I don't know why I was so annoyed by our petty plant theives, but I'll venture a guess:

 A. I was pretty sure I could see who HE was.

 B. He was riding with another woman besides me.

 C. They did not think to leave any seed, and took both plants.

 D. I must have subconsciously cherished my memories of England,its heathers and bells, and have considerd the Harebells beloved.

 E. When I was taking my health sorrows to a remarkable homeopath in Toronto, he often gave me Bach Rescue remedies, and also, tiny, round pills made of sugar which had homeopathic ingredients. One of them, which he called Aconitum, butmade with Harebells,was given to me as a mild tranquilizer, and to calm my fears.

At the time, I was a very nervous, fearful young woman, and I can remember visualizing sweet Harebells, while chanting "aconitum...aconitum..." to relieve the fear feelings that puzzled me so deeply.

Perhaps, even now, my fears (far away) have been hidden into the Harebells and dissolved by the love of God which is so overwhelmingly part of the love of Nature. But, even now, I need or want those harebells, like the elf in the poem who craved those green glass beads...."Give me your green glass beads, give me them, give me them, do!...."

Now is the  time for a bit of magic,(I am writing this in mid-December) and Harebells are, actually, an herb remedy, though perhaps becoming a rarity.

He invented  ' Bach Flower Remedies', discovering 38 flower remedies, each for a different emotional state.

Medicine , taken by the drop is a naturopathic or homeopathic remedy, with which many people who have sought natural or alternative medicines are probably familiar.

The Doctors'  'Rescue Remedy®' is probably the most familiar of these, but there are many rescue remedies form different nations, now. Great Britain, alone, has over 90 essence makers, for instance, the famous Findhorn garden in Scotland (Findhorn Floral Essences) and Harebell Remedies are only two of Scotlands' manufacturers.

Flowers of such plants as violets, rose, harebells, dandelion, bee balm (my favorite for honey!), yarrow, red clover and mint are delicious, medicinal and can be easily preserved for the year to come in honey.

Honey is a great natural preserver for flowers, leaves, roots and plant juices due to its high sugar content. Gather flowers on a cool, dry morning. (It is important that they are not wet, this could cause mold to grow in your honey.) Pour honey over the flowers, covering the flowers by 1–2 inches.

Mix daily for 1 week and start eating, using as a medicine or sweetening your tea as soon as you can taste that the honey has become flavored.

There is no need to strain; keep flowers in the honey and eat them along with the honey. Other great honeys can be made with the leaves of such medicinal herbs as:

http://www.alandiashram.org/pdf/AGNI_2001_v5_summer.pdf

"The life force of each different species of flower is "in tune" with a different emotion/s. For example, Aspen flower essence addresses fears of unknown origins. A treatment of Aspen essence would accordingly assist one to feel increasingly fearless, joyous and eager. Dissolving and alleviating negative emotions allows the Higher Self to manifest increasingly in the individual's life. This in turn enhances our sense of wellbeing and wholeness. If health is the sum total of a healthy mind, body and spirit, flower essences then play a remarkable role in promoting and maintaining health."

Scotland Harebell:( A great Plant names list is to be found in) http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/collections/botanical/plantlist/herblist3.cfm

Name:                 Campanula rotundifolia
Common Name:   BLUEBELL; HAREBELL; COMMON HAREBELL
Family Name:       CAMPANULACEAE

In the Scotland Harebell pages for the site listed below, a long list of remedies, called Scotland Harebell, exist for depression, fears, etc.

http://www.ifec.com.au/refer.htm#DEP

http://www.ifec.com.au/harebpg.htm

Sore Ear Harebell Remedy

Sore Ear: Steep and strain the root of one Harebell with one-half cup of water. After the water has cooled to a lukewarm temperature, place a few drops in the ear.

http://www.thegreenguide.org/health/ailments_print.php

Sore Eyes

Thompsons' First Peoples of BC used Harebell (Scottish Harebell) for sore eyes, in a concoction from the boiled root, which they drank, or with which they bathed their eyes.

Alaskan flower and environmental essences: Desert Alchemy - from Arizona

Aum Himalaya Sanjeevini Essences

Pacific Sea and Flower Essences from Canada

Perelandra Rose and Garden Essences

Findhorn Flower Essences

Ararê tama Rainforest Essences from Brazil

Petite Fleur Essences from Texas

Harebell Scottish Flower Essences: new types of remedy as well as Bach original

As simply as one awakens, to stroll into the garden and taste the dew from a small flower, Dr. Bach carefully shook floral oils in morning dew form plants, preserving them with brandy.

The "Sun Method"

Today, the flowers are picked and floated in spring water in a glass bowl, then placed in morning sunlight for a few hours. The water is collected and sadded to alcohol.

http://www.ifec.com.au/faq.htm

"In flower essences, as the flowers - which are the highest form in manifestation of the plant and its most sensitive part to light (though by no means its only potent part) - are floated in water the pranic energy of the light allows the water to take up the vibrational energy unique to that flower. The water, which needs to be pure, takes on the signature of the essence of that plant and when introduced to the human body (or animal) vibrates at a certain wavelength (normally said to be beyond the speed of normal light) and will resonate with similar vibrations in the subtle bodies..".

........"The etheric body has three basic functions, which are all closely related. It acts as a receiver, assimilator and transmitter of prana. This is the universal life force that vitalises all forms in all kingdoms of nature. These energies streaming in from the sun are absorbed by the etheric body through a series of small force centres and then passed to the spleen, where the vital essence of the sun is subjected to a process of intensification or devitalization, according to the condition of the subject, before being circulated to vitalise the physical body."

Below, a site well worth reading and researching for an understanding of finesses in the physico-chemical balance of the healing body-mind-spirit:

http://www.belinus.co.uk/doorsofpeace/NatureEssences.htm#flower_essences

Plants cited:
Campanula isophylla Moretti Sensitivity to this Italian species was reported by Biberstein (1927).

Badanyan SO, Bentley RK, Jenkins JK, Jones ERH and Thaller V (1973)

Natural acetylenes. Part XXXVII. Polyacetylenes from the Campanulaceae plant family. Tetrahydropyranyl and open chain C14 polyacetylenic alcohols from Campanula pyramidalis L. &Campanula medium L. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions I : 145-147.

*Campanula medium L. Canterbury Bells.
Contact dermatitis from Canterbury bells was noted by Adamson (1952). He emphasised that high environmental temperature promoted the development of dermatitis.

http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/BotDermFolder/BotDermC/CAMP.html

The polyacetylene compounds most frequently reported from the Asteraceae of Mexico include trideca-ene-pentayne and the epoxides, epoxisulfones, dithiins, and polythiophenes derived from this compound.

The dithn compounds are also called thiarubrine compounds because of the intense red color.

Laboratory studies have demonstrated that the thiarubrine compounds have extremely potent cytotoxic, nematocidal, and fungicidal properties.

Falcarinol, a linear polyacetylenic compound found in Panax ginseng, a plant used extensively in East Asia for medicinal purposes, has been investigated and demonstrates antimicrobial, antifungal, and antibacterial activities at 6-200 ppm.

A very similar compound, dehydrofalcarinone, occurs in many of the Asteraceae of Mexico. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0ISW/2001_June/75178701/p1/article.jhtml

Harebell in Newfoundland http://www.yougrowgirl.com/explore/newfoundland/new6.php

"According to legend, the fairies were defeated in battle by the pixies. Three wounded fairies hid in the brush and were there rescued by a hare.

The fairy queen rewarded the animal by planting the meadow with tiny bells to warn the hare of danger.

The credibility of that otherwise quite plausible story of its origination is diminished by another explanation which accounts for the name, in this case spelled h-a-i-r, by the hair-like stems on which the little bells grow. So much for fairy stories."

http://www.thegreenguide.org/health/ailments_print.php

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1956/herbsa-g.html

Common Names: ~Venus's-looking-glass~ Known as Venus's-looking-glass, which comes from a legend in which the goddess of love lost her magic mirror, which reflected nothing but beauty. A poor shepherd boy found the mirror and kept it. When Venus sent Cupid to retrieve her looking glass, it fell to the ground and accidentally shattered. Everywhere a piece landed, a beautiful Campanula began to grow.

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/flowers/c.html

Sex! The Sex Life of Wildflowers....       http://www.thegreenguide.org/health/ailments_print.php