Top: Meadowsweet, right, growing along a path by the river Avon, Barton Country Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. I have…
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A notebook of thoughts, ideas, experiments failed and successful in growing a witch’s garden. Since witches are often nocturnal creatures, we also go into moon gardens, and a fair amount of cottage gardening as well.
Laudanum from the Witch’s Garden: The opiate that drove the romantic poets to enlightenment and insanity
Top: Poppy Field by Cate Davies. Click here to view larger or purchase a print. I’m standing in the Tate…
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A last look around the moon garden and the witch’s garden before the autumn’s chill does its work
Top: The last rose of the season Dear H., It’s time again, to start putting away the garden for winter….
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Why a moon garden?
Dear H., We are creatures of the night, are we not? It’s like the song says, “the days are okay…
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The Witch’s Garden reborn: Taming the feral beast for a new spring
Dear H., I was sitting in the garden part of the garden this evening, and I remembered I had a…
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Year two: Tips for starting a witch’s garden from scratch
This is my second year of growing a witch’s garden, and I look back at the first year as an…
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Witchy plants coming back in the spring from a hard winter
This was a surprise … Last spring I managed to get hold of three Belladonna plants. Two went directly into…
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Witchy Garden Experiments: Sewing seeds on the Winter Solstice to avoid cold stratification
One evening I had a friend over for drinks. The friend in question had run afoul of my good graces…
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What survived the winter in the witch’s garden?
Relatively speaking it was a nasty winter. It turned cold in November and is still a bit chilly most days…
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Starting seeds indoors for a witch’s garden
I think my success in gardening for the past three years (and I’m not about to claim great success mind…
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A Ballad: Sweet William’s Farewell To Black-Eyed Susan
by: John Gay (1685-1732) All in the Downs the fleet was moor’d, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-ey’d…
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Were witch’s gardens used by witches and herbalists in the middle ages?
To answer that question, you first have to answer the question “what is a witch?” If your concept of a…
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