Backyard Garden Witchery: Creating Magickal Space Outside Your Door

by Laurel Woodward

Overview

Transform Your Yard into a Place of Healing, Peace, and Power

Embrace the magick of gardening and grow your own living, breathing sanctuary. Laurel Woodward offers more than eighty spells, recipes, and activities for building, maintaining, and enjoying a biodiverse garden. This book teaches how to build a relationship with the green world while keeping your backyard garden sacred and safe. You'll explore plant energies and land spirits, the care of herb, vegetable, and flower gardens, working with your home's soil and hardiness zone, and much more.

A natural companion to Kitchen Witchery, this beginner-friendly book also provides a compendium of garden plants, including common weeds, culinary herbs, and perennials. Laurel helps you design the perfect space for herbalism, meditation, spellwork, divination, healing, or worship. With her guidance, you'll create a natural haven that feeds your sense of wonder and enhances your connection to the earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738770703
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	07/08/2022
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Laurel Woodward (Portland, OR) has been a witch for 20 years and is also a tarot reader. She has written for magazines and ezines on the subjects of healthy living, organic gardening, sustainable living, and the magick of tapping creative energy. Learn more at www.LiminalLandscapes.com.

Table of Contents

List of Exercises, Spells, and Recipes xi

Disclaimer xv

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Magick Garden

Chapter 1 The Restorative Power of Nature 7

Chapter 2 The Land Outside Your Window 13

Chapter 3 Working with What You Have 21

Chapter 4 Meet the Other Residents 31

Chapter 5 Dream Up the Design of Your Personal Garden Sanctuary 43

Chapter 6 The Spirit of the Land 53

Chapter 7 Get Ready to Plant 59

Chapter 8 Natural and Ethical Garden Practices 67

Chapter 9 The Flower Garden 79

Chapter 10 The Cottage Witch's Garden 95

Chapter 11 The Vegetable Garden 121

Chapter 12 The Culinary Herb Garden 141

Chapter 13 Care and Feeding of Garden Plants 155

Chapter 14 The Magick of Propagation: Germination, Division, and Cloning 165

Part 2 Compendium of Garden Plants

Common Weeds 175

Favorite Food Plants for a Wildlife Garden 193

Some Favorite Garden Flowers 215

Garden Bulbs 241

Shrubs, Vines, and Other Perennials 255

Magickal Plants for a Witch's Garden 277

Some Garden Vegetable Favorites 309

Classic Culinary Herbs 353

Acknowledgments 369

Recommended Reading 371

Bibliography 373

Index 383

Editorial Reviews

"I was delighted to delve into Laurel Woodward's Backyard Garden Witchery, as someone who is looking to improve my gardening, loves to cook, and nerd out on botany—this book is a lovely collection of recipes, spells and folklore that will keep you reading and re-reading throughout your life! A perfect book for any kitchen witch, green witch, gardener, or foodie!"—Dean Jones, podcaster and food writer for The Well-Seasoned Librarian podcast

"Whether you are a city dweller struggling to grow in your apartment, a beginning gardener and witch, or an experienced plant lover and practitioner, Backyard Garden Witchery will give you endless creative ways to reconnect and reinvent your relationship with nature. In this magical, poetic, and comprehensive guide on how you can craft and enjoy a garden in any environment, Laurel Woodward will inspire you to connect with the flow of energy in your own backyard like you never have before! This approachable, impressive, and artistic work will help anyone deepen their relationship with nature spirits in new, exciting, and engaging ways and deserves a permanent spot on every green witch's bookshelf!"—Julia Halina Hadas, author of WitchCraft Cocktails and Moon, Magic, Mixology

"Laurel Woodward has done it again! Another beautiful book weaving daily tasks into pure magic. If you loved her book Kitchen Witchery, I promise you will love Backyard Garden Witchery just as much."—Raina Starr, host and producer of Desperate House Witches podcast

"Backyard Garden Witchery is a delightful journey through an enchanted garden. Half love letter to the natural world, half tutorial for the novice or intermediate gardener, this book is an excellent resource for the budding green witch. Backyard Garden Witchery is chock full of information and ideas to inspire your own magickal garden. It features exercises and meditations for connecting to the spirits of the land, fauna, flora, and fungi around you. If you are longing to get your hands into the soil, this book is an excellent support for your journey into magickal gardening."—Irene Glasse, author of Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training

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