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200+ Herbal Recipes from the Witch's Garden More than just a place to connect with nature, your garden can provide a variety of foods, medicines, and magical ingredients. This book shows you how to use dozens of common plants to improve your health, make personal care products, and develop your spiritual practice. Some of the flowers you already grow might be as magical as any exotic herb money can buy. Anna Franklin provides comprehensive profiles for nearly thirty plants, sharing each one's culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses as well as recipes, correspondences, and magical virtues. 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, meads, and jellies to creams, bath salts, and incenses, this book helps you turn your bountiful harvest into an enchanting natural lifestyle. Aloe Vera • Begonia • Borage • Calendula • Carnation • Chamomile • Clover • Daisy • Dandelion • Fuchsia Geranium • Heather • Honeysuckle • Horsetail • Houseleek • English Ivy • Jasmine • Lavender • Lilac& • Mallow Nasturtium • Nettle • Passionflower • Peony • Red Poppy • Primrose • Rose • Sunflower • Violet

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Author:   Anna Franklin
Publisher:   Llewellyn Publications,U.S.
Imprint:   Llewellyn Publications,U.S.
ISBN:  

9780738772301

ISBN 10:   0738772305
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   08 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of 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

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Anna Franklin is a third-degree witch and high priestess of the Hearth of Arianrhod who has been a practicing Pagan for more than forty years. She is the author of nearly thirty books, including the Hearth Witch series, and the creator of the Sacred Circle Tarot, Fairy Ring Oracle, and the Pagan Ways Tarot. Her books have been translated into nine languages. Anna has contributed hundreds of articles to Pagan magazines and has appeared on radio and TV. She lives and works in a village in the English Midlands where she grows her own herbs, fruit, and vegetables, and generally lives the Pagan life. Visit her at AnnaFranklin.co.uk.

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