It is a pleasure to welcome Lauren Elizabeth Palmer, Founder and Principal Designer at The Wild Mother Creative Studio.  Lauren, along with her sisters Leah and Callie, are based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they offer incredible floral design as well as in-person and online education.  Their art is informed by their Afro-indigenous heritage, and reflects their reverence for the natural world, drawing together the threads of the past and present, beauty and activism, to tell the stories of today.  The care they take with their materials imbues their creations with passion and true joy.    
2022 is the second year of the “Send Flowers To” campaign, through which the Wild Mother creates floral art installments to honor, draw attention to, and heal intergenerational community trauma.  This year, the campaign highlights Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, or MMIW, and involves an installation at the First American’s Museum in Oklahoma City from May 7th to May 9th.  Please follow the links in the show notes or at https://www.thewildmother.com/ (thewildmother.com) to learn more and contribute to this important cause.        
Garden People podcast, from https://www.instagram.com/violetear_studio/ (@violetear_studio)


S H O W N O T E S
https://www.instagram.com/thewildmother/ (Lauren and her sisters - The Wild Mother Creative Studio)
https://www.thewildmother.com/ (The Wild Mother)
https://www.thewildmother.com/sendflowersto (#SendFlowersTo for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW))
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html (Tulsa Greenwood Massacre - the subject of #SendFlowersTo for 2021)
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-wampanoag-side-of-the-first-thanksgiving-story (The First Thanksgiving)
https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/ (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe)
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/true-story-pocahontas-historical-myths-versus-sad-reality (Story Pocahantas’ kidnapping)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGoTzQ-Q4Ts (Ride on King Jesus)
https://www.edgar-degas.org/biography.html (Edgar Degas)
https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/ (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bell-hooks (bell hooks)
https://www.yo-yoma.com/ (Yo-Yo Ma)
P L A N T L I S T
https://calscape.org/Ceanothus-thyrsiflorus-(Blueblossom-Ceanothus) (California Lilac), Ceanothus ssp. - Ceanothus thyrsiflorus ‘Blueblossom’
https://www.prairienursery.com/vanilla-sweet-grass-hierochloe-odorata.html#:~:text=Description-,Sweet%20Grass%20is%20a%20cool%2Dseason%20grass%20that%20spreads%20easily,braided%20and%20burned%20as%20'smudge. (Sweet grass), Hierochloe odorata, and http://www.native-languages.org/legends-sweetgrass.htm (some) https://ninepipesmuseum.org/articles/the-lesson-of-sweetgrass/ (of its uses)
https://medicinalgarden.trekbirmingham.com/echinacea-purpurea/ (Coneflower), Echinacea, https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/a-wild-history-of-echinacea#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20has%20a%20large%20number,treat%20animals%2C%20especially%20horses.%E2%80%9D (as medicinal plant)
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/nestronia_umbellula.shtml (Olive leaf), Nestronia umbellula Raf.
Sweetheart rose, Champagne
https://www.finegardening.com/genus/helleborus (Helleborus), Lenten Rose
https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/milkweed/heavenly-blue-tweedia (Tweedia), Oxypetalum coeruleum
https://www.provenwinners.com/plants/hydrangea/limelight-panicle-hydrangea-hydrangea-paniculata (Limelight Hydrangea), Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
https://www.google.com/search?aqs=chrome.1.0i20i131i263i355i433i512j46i20i131i263i433i512j46i512j0i20i263i512j0i67j0i512l2j0i457i512j0i512.3143j0j4&gs_ssp=eJzj4tZP1zc0MsozSCsoNGD0EihITU1PTVXIqEwpSsxLT00EAJPPCh4&ie=UTF-8&oq=peegee&q=peegee%20hydrangea&rlz=1C1LENP_enUS526US526&sourceid=chrome (PeeGee Hydrangea),...