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Creating Enchanted Garden Installations
Close up of centerpiece used to add natural ambiance
to the Speaker's Room. Natural Products Expo West '04.
Flower and live plant ambiance
with a special Enchanted Garden Message
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What is an Enchanted Garden Installation?
 Todd Zimmerman, of New Hope Natural Media, greeted me in the New Hope friendly style in my first hour on opening day. In my portable cart, I have fresh Peppermint scented geraniums, and a wreath on its way to the Show Management Office. Todd is wearing some Rosemary in his nametag. I know his experience at the Expo has been enlivened.
Each time, I create an Altar of live
plants, I call this an Enchanted Garden Installation. Regardless of physical discomfort, it is the plants and this service that carries me into an altered state of joy and service. In this act of service I become an Enchanted Gardener. The Enchanted Garden
is a name for our renewed Earth that grows one Seed and Seed Dream
at a time. When we establish natural ambiance in our lives, and at our conferences, we create uplifting areas-- "All of one Piece" using Feng Shui principles. We, ourselves, become
"All of one Peace." Success is naturally inspired when plants are present. Business is blooming.
Over the years, through the help of assistants, I have created numbers of Enchanted Garden Installations.
I have created large Enchanted
Garden Installations for four International Feng Shui Conferences.
I have created conference Altars
in a number of these Installations, where attendees found time and place to write out their Seed Dreams
and have an opportunity to receive heirloom seeds or baby herb plants to adopt.
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Our First Enchanted Garden Installations
In the early 80's I created Enchanted Garden Installations for the Mandala Conference, a birthing place for the Holistic Health movement. This was a large room filled with plants. As a result, I was given a UN Peace Medal by Robert Muller, then Undersecretary
general of the UN for the work he believes I would do in my life.
 The Enchanted Garden at the 4th
International Feng Shui Conference,
Orlando, Florida, Disney Hilton August 2001
 Today I am
planting
my dream.
Today
I am growing
a beautiful
tomorrow.
Plant a Seed. Grow a New World.
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 Professor Thomas Yun Lin, Feng Shui master teacher,
breathes in some fresh aromaticherbs before offering his closing ceremonyfor the Third International Feng Shui Conference in Monterey, May '99. The use of fresh aromatic herbs in the business setting lessens tension.In the conference setting Enchanted Garden installations have been enthusiastically received.
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 Each November, I provide an Enchanted Garden Installation at thePacific Symposium, an International Gathering
of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioners.
As the Natural Products Industry grows, we will be hurting ourselves if we leave out living plants in our lives.
We have not even scratched the surface of understanding Nature's Original Technology. I know this through my experience with debilitating near lifelong arthritis.
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 Bird of Paradise was the show flower
for the Fourth International Feng Shui Conference in Orlando, Florida. Blue Pacific
Wholesale Florist, my Enchanted Garden Sponsor, sent these and other flowers cross country.
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 Thyme out: accupuncturist at the Pacific Symposium
where I and staff create an Enchanted Garden
each Fall ll for more than 400 professionals and students, bliss out after enhaling fresh herbs, hearing poetry, and planting seed dreams. My intent, where ever I go is to create more gardeners. I am overcome by this passion that takes me for moments beyond physical limits.
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Enchanted Garden Installations
at the Natural Products Expo West-'04
Enhancing the
Speaker's Prep Room at NPEW-'04
 At NPEW, I bring a "Show" plant to the Management Office with the intention that the Expo will surpass its goals. The seed are heirloom varieties from Seeds of Change. In Enchanted Garden Installations, I offer the opportunity to Plant Your Dream, withliving Seeds and join this branch of the Enchanted Garden Club. As the Seed grows, so does our Seed Dreams. This ritual adds focus for conference attendees.
The wreaths are grown by Blue Pacific Wholesale Florist and the Rodriguez family, my adopted farming family. Please check on their website. These delightful Fall creations, made of festive baby pumpkins and Chile peppers, are awe inspiring.
At NPEW '04, in alliance with DeeDee Lindner of Delaware Valley Wholesale Florist, I found places for natural organic bouquets, that had been brought in for the
Organic Farming Research Foundation luncheon.
I was also delighted by a gift of centerpieces that had been used to decorate a Tony Robbins luncheon for the Twinlabs buyers.
 The Anaheim Convention staff delivered these to the Speaker's Room at my request.
I look forward to bringing more plant presence to future Natural Product Expo's.
--Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener.
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 Christina Fior of Teeccino herbal coffee and I celebrate the addition of flowers and live herbs to enhance the speakers roomat the Natural Products Expo West '04.
Red flowers were organically grown by
Delaware Valley Wholesale Florist. and brought the NPEW-04 by DeeDee Lindner.
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"Thank you
for making
our speaker room
better than ever!"
--Amy Suter,
New Hope,
NBJ/Newport Summit
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 Carolyn Pesanti Green,Convention and Visitor Services, Director Anaheim Convention Center, and her staff. Carolyn was enthusiastic about my Seed Dream to plant an herb garden at the Anaheim Convention Center outside the entrance to the NPEW.
"Today I breathed in
the most wonderful,
enlivening
scent...
The scent of rosemary
so fresh...
As the poetry
of Leslie exits my lips,
I'm awed, awed at
the experience."
--Elva Rayburn,
Grande Whole
Foods Market
buyer at the NPEW-04
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 "Your beautiful creations bring life and light and energy to a room just as your smile does. God bless and keep up the great work. I wish you could enchant my garden."
--Carolyn Pesanti Green,
Convention and Visitor Services, Director
Anaheim Convention Center
 The Centerpieces up close,,,
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