Witch's Garden

A look at plants, ideas, resources, moon gardens, herbalism and how I became the witch's gardener. Gardening with a history.

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Welcome to a guide to magick herbs and herbalism – witchy plants, white and dark, potions and poisons for the cauldron, as well as goodies for kitchen witches

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger): It gave oracles their sight and made witches fly, yellow blossoms on one of the darkest of plants inhabiting a deadly corner of the Witch’s Garden

The henbane's first effect was purely physical discomfort. My limbs lost certainty, pains hammered in my head, and I began to feel …

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Journal Entry: Spring 2020 in the witch’s garden – on delayed plants, medicinal herbs, fairy garden planning and a warning to reptiles

Wild Columbine, May 4, 2010 with Foxgloves in the background. The witch's garden theme this year has been self sufficiency. …

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Laudanum from the Witch’s Garden: The opiate that drove the romantic poets to enlightenment and insanity

I’m standing in the Tate Gallery, years ago, staring at the painting by Sir John Everett Millais of Ophelia. I know the story, and …

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Primrose flowers in a witch’s garden: A gift to, and protection from fairies, tokens for the dead and Evening Primrose for a moon garden

Top: Evening Primrose flowers growing in the fairy section of a witch's garden Thinking of you while out for a rambleDown by a …

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