All About Magickal Gardening: Creating Your Own Fairyland
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Good day to all,
I am starting this new thread to share all about magickal gardening to create your own fairyland. Anyone can come in to post anything on gardening, plants, flowers and even fairies. So welcome to my fairyland.
living_in_fairyland -
Behind the gate and in the meadow
There is a special place that few have seen.
So secret that only a lucky few can go.
Do you know the magick word? -
I'm sure you doÂ… you believe don't you?
Well, follow my ‘Woodland fairy’ and she
Will show you the way...... -
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Your Magickal garden
Tender shoots, sleeping seeds, Gentle Devas,
Watch over this garden,
Make it fertile, make it green, Make it bloom.
All gardens are magickal--and all gardeners are magickians. With the wizardry of earth and seed, the gardener transforms the world into a place of beauty, power, and healing. This year, acknowledge the connection between gardening and magic deliberately by creating a sacred space. Perhaps it will be a small space filled with significant plants and symbols--one to admire from your window--or it might be a larger space, big enough for meditations and invocations. Your garden might be dedicated to a divinity; it might recall an ancient ritual or myth in its selection and placement of plants. living_in_fairyland -
Your dreams and traditions will tell you how to build your own Magickal garden. Here are a few ideas to inspire you.
The Artemisia Glade
The common garden plant artemisia is said to have so delighted the wildwood goddess Artemis that she named it after herself. In her honor, establish a little glade of her favorite flower. Find a narrow area with good Sun, then fill it with drifts of the silver-leafed plants. Given Artemis' penchant for wilderness, be sure to avoid regimented rows! Begin by establishing focal points with tall "Artemisia lactiflora" (white mugwort). Then add sculptural accents with fragrant "Artemisia California montara" (California sagebrush), a gracefully cascading mounding shrub that will grow to two feet tall. Opposite, place "Artemis fiffolia", a small native shrub with airy, feathery foliage. Finally, fill in the remaining sections near the pathways with Artemisias "Silver Mound" and "Canescens", both smallish perennials which, once established, create attractive mounds of silvery gray, feathery foliage. Artemisias, once established, thrive and expand. You may find gardener friends with older Artemisia beds which they are willing to divide. You might substitute some of the above suggestions with gift plants of similar heights and shapes. You can't really mismatch Artemisias; the family demands similar culture and location, and the varieties of related foliage will be invariably pleasing.
Other Ideas
There are endless ideas for gardens based in myth and magic. Try a red garden for Mars, or a white one for the Moon. Build a zodiac garden with herbs for each planet. Divide the yard according to the wheel of the year, and create plantings for each festival. Place sculptures and symbols among the plants. Your garden is a magical place already. Let yourself make it even more so! -
A Garden of Directions
A Garden of Directions Draw a circle on the ground of at least nine feet. Use a compass to find the directions of north, south, east and west. Divide this circle into eight pie shapes so that the middle of the outside arc of four of these wedges is at one of those points. Remove the sodat the north, south, east and west points. You may raise the bedsby working the soil and adding an edging, if you wish. You may also remove the sod in the other four wedges and add paving stone or gravel.
At each point, plant herbs associated with that particular direction.Plants for the direction of north include loosestrife, mugwort, wood sorrel, horehound, and horsetail. You may also plant any herb with the associations of the Element of Earth. Plants for the direction of east include agrimony, bittersweet nightshade, borage, clover, eyebright, marjoram, and sage. You may also use any herb with theassociation of the Elements of Air. Plants for the direction of southinclude pasque flower, basil, carrot, celery, cinquefoil, hyssop, mullein, nettle. You may also use any herb with the association of the Element of Fire. Plants for the direction of west include, aster, lemon balm, bedstraw, catnip, daffodil, feverfew,Lady's mantle, and yarrow. You may also use any herb with the association of the Element of Water.
You may wish to add a stepping stone with the directions marked on it at the center of your circle garden. Those stones are normally available at your local nursery or garden centers. And if you are so inspired, you prefer to make your own. -
welcome to e forums
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what does the Peter Pan's tinklebell fairy do?
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u want to add this in yr fairy garden??
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Thanks. Welcome to my fairyland too.Originally posted by harryryan:welcome to e forums 
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Tinkerbell fairy in neverneverland, her fairy dust that give Peter Pan the power of flight, a dash of self esteem to kids too. Her depiction as curvaceous figure small flutter winged blondie fairy make her more like a symbol of sex appeal.Originally posted by SwtHippy:what does the Peter Pan's tinklebell fairy do?
u have her information?
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Fountains are such great addition to any garden or home, good idea.Originally posted by a_splash:u want to add this in yr fairy garden?? -
Your eye got sand?Originally posted by zacken99: -
Gardening Tips from the Old Days
- Add a few drops of castor oil to the dirt around plants to make leaves greener.
- Your plants will double in size and beauty with this monthly treatment. Add one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon of Epsom Salts, and a half teaspoon of household ammonia to one gallon of tepid water.
- Sweet corn ears are ripe and ready to pick when the top of the cob is rounded, not pointed.
- Sprinkle powdered detergent or cayenne pepper in the dirt around sweet corn to keep pests away.
- Radishes or spearmint planted near squash will act as a natural insecticide.
- Plant dill nearby to discourage worms from tomatoes.
- Don't throw away your leftover coffee in the morning. Pour it over your geraniums to promote blooming.
- African violets will bloom longer and more abundantly if you stick a few rusty nails in the soil alongside them.
- To keep cats from digging in your flower beds, put pine cones around the plants.
- Don't throw away egg shells; soak them in a jar of water and use the resulting solution to water your plants to make them more lush.
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thanks for you infor.Originally posted by Living_in_fairyland:Tinkerbell fairy in neverneverland, her fairy dust that give Peter Pan the power of flight, a dash of self esteem to kids too. Her depiction as curvaceous figure small flutter winged blondie fairy make her more like a symbol of sex appeal. -
Welcome.Originally posted by SwtHippy:thanks for you infor. -
Calling the Luck of the Faery Folk
This incantation can be done anytime during the summer, when the fireflies are out. You must find a VERY quite and private place to do the incantation. Start with your arms out and walk in an open area that fireflies are in. Stop in the same position and call upon the great mother with the following chant:
"Fireflies come dance with me
Fireflies come be with me
Oh Great Mother be with us tonight
With (your name) and the Fairy Folk
Fireflies show your true self
Do not fear me for I am (your name)
Your friend, Your Sister/Brother
Invite me into your world to dance."
Dance a joyous dance from your heart and allow yourself to be free and at peace. Continue Chant:
"Fireflies, Fairy Folk, Oh Great Mother
Come dance with me, Be with me
Fairy Folk show your true self to me
I will protect you tonight as we dance
Dance the dance of the Fairy Folk."
Repeat the above five lines, and dance the dance of the Fairy Folk until you feel and see that the Fairy Folk are with you...Play with them as you like, when you are done begin this Chant to End the Dance:
"Fairy Folk, Fire Flies, Oh Great Mother
Fairy Folk, I (your name) leave you now
Go back to hide from where you came
Be not sad, or cry or weep
For I (your name) will return
To dance the Dance of the Fairy Folk
Peace be with you. Blessed Be." -
Flowers, Herbs, and the Faeries of May
by Edain McCoy
From Beltaine to Midsummer, the faery kingdom celebrates the newborn spring. Throughout the centuries, Europeans made note of which vernal foliage was attractive to the wee folk and, by contrast, which plants would offer protection. Those plants marked with an asterisk (*) are poisonous and should be cultivated only with great caution, and should never be grown wherever children or pets are present.
Bluebell --- If bluebells ring in your garden, an evil faery is near.
Carnation --- The red ones draw faeries who enjoy healing animals.
Clover --- Wildly attractive to faery life.
Cowslip --- The best choice for attracting faeries to your yard.
Dandelion --- Believed to be used by faeries to make beverages.
Dill --- The fresh plant has a scent faeries dislike.
Foxglove* --- A favorite of earth elementals.
Hawthorne --- Sacred to faeries, as well as to May Queen.
Heliotrope* --- Enjoyed by fire elementals.
Gorse --- Repels virtually all faery life.
Hollyhock* --- A faery favorite, particularly the pink variety.
Lilac --- The gentle scent draws faery life.
Lobelia* --- Will help attract winged faeries.
Mistletoe* --- Can also attract unpleasant tree faeries.
Morning Glory* --- Repels unwanted night faeries
Mushrooms* --- Often used by faeries to mark the boundaries of their sacred circles or portals to their world.
Pansy --- Known to attract parades of trooping faeries.
Primrose --- Believed to give faeries their power of invisibility.
Rosemary --- The fresh plant protects from baneful faeries.
Sassafras --- Enjoyed by air elementals.
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The Benefits of Bees
Pollination is one of Nature's Miracles. It is the beginning of all seed-making, the first step in the reproduction of all flowering plants. Bees benefit all gardens by pollinating.Flowers assist the pollinator in finding the special spot where their reward is stored - usually pollenor nectar. They often have bee lines, or dots, or colour variations, or modified stamens (penstemon) which direct the pollinator, and at the same time deposit some pollen on him, or brush the pistil against the pollen already on his body. The benefits to the pollinators in this story is they are provided with protein rich pollen and sweet, sugary nectar. Honeybees work very hard and may live only a few weeks. Many overwinter in the hive though. Solitary bees form a colony during the season but only the queen overwinters. The rest die in the fall.
Some Fun Facts About Bees
The queen mates once with a dozen or so drones (males) and stores all the sperm she will need for her entire life.
A queen bee can lay upto 2000 eggs per day.
As she lays an egg she can fertilize it to produce
a female worker bee or not fertilize it to produce a male drone bee.
The drones don't really do any work around the hive (the females do all the work!). Their only function is to mate. Drones from different colonies meet up at "drone congregating areas" where they wait for young virgin queens
to fly by. Mating takes place in mid-air and the drone usually dies in the act.
As fall approaches any drones remaining in the hive are evicted and starve to death. Only the workers and the queen survive the winter.
Though the total number of bees in a colony varies widely over the course of a year, we could expect an average hive in the peak of the season to contain one queen, several hundred drones, and as many as 60,000 workers.
Plants that Attract Bees
SHRUBS
Adenostoma fasciculatum CHAMISE
Ceanothus WILD LILAC
Eriogonum fasciculatum CALIFORNIA BUCKWHEAT
MISCELLANEOUS
Sweet Clover (white and yellow varieties)
Goldenrod & Buckwheat (depends on location and nectar flow)
Wild Asters (esp. good in Fall)
Turnip & Mustard Greens, wild or cultivated varieties - when in flower
Salvia mellifera BLACK SAGE
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Merry Meet Living_in_fairyland,
Thanks for this Nice Thread, what a pleasant surprise? My ~*~LOA~*~ definitely welcome Faeries & Nature Spirits. Care for an introduction?
Blessed Be,
Oceanos -
Hmmm... Faeries seems to be very interesting "creatures"....wonder if e elves in e Lord of the Rings aka Legolas etc etc r actually Faeries....cos if i remember e ending,it said that e elves died when e forest were felled or destroyed..... sounds similar to the faeries dieing when thei gardens they dwell in are destroyed..... just like those situations in kids cartoons...dun remember e tittle.
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Originally posted by OCEANOS:
Welcome.
[b]Merry Meet Living_in_fairyland,
Thanks for this Nice Thread, what a pleasant surprise? My ~*~LOA~*~ definitely welcome Faeries & Nature Spirits. Care for an introduction?
Blessed Be,
Oceanos[/b]
what kind of introduction you want? hehehe
Someone who love nature,fairies,flowers,plants and magick. -
You are right, elves are from Fairy folks.Originally posted by harryryan:Hmmm... Faeries seems to be very interesting "creatures"....wonder if e elves in e Lord of the Rings aka Legolas etc etc r actually Faeries....cos if i remember e ending,it said that e elves died when e forest were felled or destroyed..... sounds similar to the faeries dieing when thei gardens they dwell in are destroyed..... just like those situations in kids cartoons...dun remember e tittle. -
thanx...ur nick reminds me of one of my favourite Chinese band->Fairyland In Reality.Originally posted by Living_in_fairyland:You are right, elves are from Fairy folks.