In the magic garden, secrets unfold, Where fairies and wonders forever behold. With laughter and mischief, their spirits bright, They create a realm of pure delight!
~written by Becky Barney
I love flowers, so I have a lot of flowers in my yard. Planting flowers, pulling weeds, and digging in the dirt is healing for my soul. Flowers bloom when they are happy, and sunflowers always make me smile.
Do you have a favorite flower?
Do you have a garden?
I enjoy seeing all the pictures and reading about everyoneās gardens. No matter how large or small, I invite you to share your photos and stories here in this new space.
With love and magick always, Marsha, Witch of the Magick Gardens
Chicory is my fave. From such tiny seeds come a bush big enough to hide young fledgelings and their families from hunters! The flowers are beautiful blue, blooming for my birthday when everything else is seeding, and the leaves and root are health- promoting herbs for womenās issues. Unfortunately, they are water hogs, so not allowed in my area.
I have an apartment in a complex with no arable land. My windows face north, so not much will grow for me: no direct sunlight.
Albus likes to eat sprouted bird food, so I keep a planter near his cages just for him. It has grown enough for him to lose interest at the moment. The plants never last long, so I replant every couple months or so. Millet and oats.
Oops! I sat down, and Albus wanted his picture taken for yāall. Heās a little hard to see, sitting under the right bell of his swing by his mirror.
Growing up in Montana, my mother gardened and taught me about flowers and plants. My three favorites from childhood are Corn Flower, Butter and Eggs ( Linaria vulgaris) and Rocky Mountain Bluebell ( Mertensia ciliata).
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Currently, Iād have to say pretty much any of the Dianthus flowers as they are both beautiful and often powerfully fragrant!
I have a few . I made 2 raised gardens in the back yard, one has flowers and herbs, and the other has flowers and vegetables. I have container gardens on my railing for culinary herbs that I use in cooling or tea. And my potted plant on the front porch has mint and spearmint!
Yay! Iāve really enjoyed the previous Magick Gardens and am so excited to see everyoneās plants and flowers blooming this year too Thank you for hosting this lovely space, @marsha!
Please donāt mind while I rehome a few recent, related posts here into this discussion. Weāll make this the go-to space for chatting about plants and flowers this season
Iām joining Artemisia - please say hello to your sweet Albus from me, too!
I am so curious about Butter and Eggs - what kind of plant is that? It has such a great name!
Other great names for the same flower include toadflax or snapdragons. For those who may not have access to such a plant, the flower looks like a face with the lower lip covering the pistil and stamens. Grip the sides of the flower, and the mouth opens. Let go, and it snaps closed again. In other words, a clever person can make the flower seem to talk!
Itās a flowering plant in the same family as snapdragons.
Itās native to Europe but naturalized in the United States. I remember being shown how to āsnapā it as a kid when my mom would find it growing in our neighborhood. The colors are very reminiscent of butter and egg yolks.
Hi @marsha!
I would have to say that my favorite flower would be the pretty ones
I do have a garden! I am actually starting another one, but it is in raised beds with repurposed materials. I have been pretty busy splitting spider plants & cleaning conch shells to plant my succulents. Plus I got 3 new succulents & moved my aloe into a bigger pot & it is happily growing & opening up some more I started a composting thingy too!
Itās the first time Iāve really been able to do anything with indoor plants & they survive! I canāt wait to get started on the raised beds too!
Hi @Ostara! Iāve missed you too. So much ive missed & need to get sort of caughtup on, I will be back with pictures, I had to get all of the spider plants homes & watered yesterday
This is going to sound weird. But Iām very drawn to nature. However, wasps, bees & bugs in general make me nervous. Iām terrified of wasps. Like terrified. This has hindered my ability to enjoy nature. To sit and let go makes me nervous due to the bugs.
I really want to create a magickal garden space, but unsure how to with this ridiculous fear. I used to question when I was younger my Witchyness because I felt like I was not truly one as I couldnāt connect to nature the way I longed tooā¦
Have you ever tried seeing bugs as having human-like personalities? So many are too busy with their own lives to care about us giants. Others get curious, but donāt know what to do about us. Only a few truly consume bits of us like mosquitoes, bed bugs, ticks, and lice. Most only bite out of self defense. I have actually seen roaches request a āmercy killingā after the bug man sprayed in othersā apartments. Start slow with somebody harmless like a butterfly.
Our phobias are usually created out of eperience. There is usually a reason behind each one, hiding in the shadows. Iām sorry yours was so intense as to cause something so all-encompassing. If you choose not to ease or explore your fears, it is entirely up to you. Either way, I wish you the best!
Thank you I was getting some smaller shells & sea treasures in their little cleaning bath before I rinse them. Iām going to use the smaller ones & some āMermaid Nails/Jingle Shellsā to go around the edges & a few small beach rocks to make sort of a kickstand for 2 of them
@KylaD I understand the fear & I agree with @georgia about there possibly being an underlying ābadā experience around them. Not always, but thatās usually what happens.
I had to get creative and ease into letting go in nature. So, I started going outside for a short amount of time and looking around my area. Iāve gone for walks on our bike path, and I will sit on my back porch just listening to the sounds and watching the trees and such move with the winds, and the birds and other animals do their thing.
Maybe start with a shorter time, wear a layered sleeve, or use a blanket if youāre sitting outside. I started with a short time in my yard, walking in my neighborhood, and then on the bike path. Start small, and maybe if you have a friend or family member who can go with you, you can go for a walk, have a picnic, or sit and talk under a tree.
I can sit outside. I ground myself every morning when we are at our trailer on our grass. I love to walk (but canāt do that for long right now due to something no one knows what it is) but at our trailer (we are there May to October) I am outside every day and we star gaze at night
My issue is the wasps (used to be extremely allergic to mosquitos but for past 30 years they rarely come near me) ants, bugs, I want to garden. But I canāt. My husband told me to get a bee keeper suit but I would die from the humidity and heat in the thing!
Ohā¦. I wonder if I could do a spell to make wasps not come near me
I donāt think Iāve ever seen them in the wild. My mother used to have them planted around the patio outside the garage in my extreme youth. They were not replaced after our travels across the desert. After I turned 6, she preferred resurrection lilies.
Itās a hard one to not be concerned about, my son is allergic to yellow jackets & my husband is allergic to wasps. My neighbor is allergic to bees. So we are careful when we see them around plants & flowers.
What about rash guard shirts for swimming, boating, sun blockā¦ I wear gloves when Iām in our yard, but a compression pair & gardening gloves. Iāll see if I can think of anything to help with the nature & garden part
sunflowers always make me smile.
Do you have a favorite flower?
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magick always,
. I made 2 raised gardens in the back yard, one has flowers and herbs, and the other has flowers and vegetables. I have container gardens on my railing for culinary herbs that I use in cooling or tea. And my potted plant on the front porch has mint and spearmint!
Thank you for hosting this lovely space, 
the pretty ones 
to plant my succulents. Plus I got 3 new succulents & moved my aloe into a bigger pot & it is happily growing & opening up some more 
I started a composting thingy too!
