Title: The Green Witch’s Garden: Your Complete Guide to Creating and Cultivating a Magical Garden Space
Author: Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Published: 2021, Simon and Schuster
Cover Design: Frank Rivera
Cover Illustrations: Sara Richard
Cover Images: Eleonora Konnova
Hardcover Edition: 224 pages
The Green Witch’s Garden: Your Complete Guide to Creating and Cultivating a Magical Garden Space
Synopsis:
Create your own enchanting witch’s garden and draw energy from the earth with this guide to cultivating your very own magical ingredients.
A green witch embraces the power of nature, draws energy from the earth and the universe, and relies on stones, plants, flowers, and herbs for healing. In The Green Witch’s Garden , you will learn how to create your own magical space to enhance your witchcraft practice.
With information on how to plan and design your sacred garden and tipsAdd and tricks to growing and harvesting magical ingredients, this book will allow you to take control of your practice and more deeply connect with the earth. Let experienced witch and author of The Green Witch Arin Hiscock-Murphy guide you on your path to creating your personal piece of nature.
Green Witchcraft > Earth Witch > Elemental Magic > Earth, Air, Fire Water
Reference > Gardening > Plants & Wildflowers
Spirituality > Paganism
My Rating:
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I’m a huge fan of both gardening and witches and when I saw The Green Witch’s Garden, by Arin Murphy-Hiscock, I knew I needed this gorgeous hardcover gardening reference book. I went into this with hopes of growing my knowledge of wildflowers and plants and learning their correspondence with the four elements but also planets and luminaries. And Murphy-Hiscock did not disappoint!
I have seventeen+ gardens — several of them pollinator gardens — on an 1/11th of an acre of land, plus many outdoor container gardens. Like my name, April, I too rebirth in Spring. It’s my favorite season and the beginning of life. As my sprouts bloom, so do I. Being outside, working in the dirt full of healthy bacteriums, under the sunshine, fully grounded, does something to me, transforming me into a better version of myself.
No weeds allowed! 📸 by Benjamin Wood of me ferociously weeding our winter-dormant Quickfire Hydrangeas
From this reference book, I discovered the magic of moon gardens further than just “white flowers”, as I believed, and solar gardens, a concept I wasn’t aware of. The beautiful illustrations of the moon garden are so inspiring, as are the solar, and elemental gardens. So if you’re looking for some witchy garden inspo, and want to try something fun and different in your yard, you might find this book jumpstarting your creativity!
For the green witch seeking to have a hand in curating their spiritual interaction with plants literally from the ground up, The Green Witch’s Garden provides a basic introduction to gardening while also offering a cross-section of gardening lore, folk traditions, and magic.”
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The Green Witch’s Garden is divided into nine concise chapters about green witchcraft in the garden, magical goals, witch gardens, alternative indoor gardens and container gardens, preparing your sacred space, choosing what to plant, garden magic and deities, magical harvesting and cooking with produce from your garden, and lastly, practicing witchcraft in your garden.
The interior is full of beautiful full-color illustrations of indoor and outdoor plants, as well as the previously mentioned illustrated gardens. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this read and I look forward to incorporating what I have learned into my own gardening!
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