Tale of a tempermental Elder
How delighted I was to find Elder Trees in our garden. To be honest I’m learning how to recognise plants and trees […]
Category: Green Witchery
Elderflower and Elder Leaves
Elder – what a wonderful tree she is. Can be tempermental (more about that later) but she offers the most amazing gifts […]
Nipplewort
Such a common plant to see in gardens here that often you wouldn’t pay attention to it – except that it often […]
Foraging 4 – Nettles
When we arrived at our new home there was an area in the garden that was very overgrown with brambles and nettles. […]
Foraging 3 – dead nettles and dandelions
Today the garden gave me 2 common classics. The purple dead nettle and the good ol’ Dandelion. I also managed to find […]
Ostara – beginnings and the new
Ostara marks the coming of spring – when the day and night are of equal length – the mid point between the […]
Foraging 2 – Sages, ivy and more….but are they?
It was a slightly rainy afternoon on Saturday this weekend but I felt compelled to have a little wander and do a […]
Request to Mother Nature – about wasps and hornets
When I was a kid I had an incident with wasps. It was a strange incident. We were playing in a field […]
First forage – turkey tail, birch polypore and more
The thing that sold our new home to us was most definitely the garden/land. We have about 2.6 acres of garden, vegetable […]
Merry Imbolc
Imbolc symbolizes the halfway point between the winter solstice (Yule) and the spring equinox (Ostara). Taking place on 1st Feb (from the […]