Full Description
You already have an herbal pharmacy just waiting to be found it's right in your garden. This book teaches you how to use a wide variety of common plants to improve your health, treat common ailments, make personal care products, and develop your magical practice. Anna Franklin provides comprehensive profiles for nearly thirty plants, such as begonia, sunflower, dandelion, and clover. She shares each one's culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses as well as magical virtues, correspondences, and recipes. This practical guide also offers deep insights on seasonal garden rituals, fairy flowers and trees, weather lore, garden spirits and familiars, harvesting and storing, and more. From tinctures and syrups to creams, bath salts, and jellies, this book has a wealth of options to improve your health and spirituality.
Contents
Contents
Introduction 1
A Note on Botanical Names...2
Part 1: The Witch's Garden 5
Maintaining Balance...7
How Your Garden Benefits the Environment...8
Recipes for Garden Care...13
Companion Planting...15
Moon Gardening...18
The Spirits of Your Garden...19
Garden Plants...27
Fairy Flowers and Trees...30
The Language of Flowers...35
Garden Familiars...44
Seasonal Garden Rituals...55
Garden Spells...60
Weather Lore...64
The Garden Pharmacy...65
Your Magical Workshop...75
Harvesting and Storing...81
Part 2: The A-Z Herbal 83
Aloe Vera...85
Begonia...91
Borage...95
Calendula...103
Carnation...113
Chamomile...119
Clover...129
Daisy...137
Dandelion...145
Fuchsia...155
Scented Geranium...161
Heather...169
Honeysuckle ...179
Horsetail...187
Houseleek...193
English Ivy...197
Jasmine...207
Lavender...213
Lilac...223
Mallow...231
Nasturtium...239
Nettle...247
Passionflower...255
Peony...261
Red Poppy ...267
Primrose...275
Rose...281
Sunflower...297
Violet...303
Appendix: Other Garden Plants for Magic 315
Bibliography 321
