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The Real Witches' Garden: Spells,Herbs, Plants and Magical Spaces Outdoors

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While it does include helpful growing advice it isn't a how to book on gardening. Which is good because the focus is on the beautiful rituals which make up a good portion of the content. Besides those for growing healthy plants and dedicating your garden as sacred space, the author has included very special ones for the Sabbats that really highlight the connection of nature and Wicca. I thought the one for Mabon was particularly good in the way she ties all the elements as well as the God and Goddess into the tending of the garden.

Because of the rituals, ideas for laying out gardens in witchy styles and the fairly extensive list of plant correspondences this book goes into my top ten list of most often referred to books.

For anyone who is interested in both Witchcraft and magical gardening this is the book for you. Kate West explains in her usual clear style how to grow herbs to use in your own spells or herbal remedies. She details the creation of your own sacred space within your garden, where you can truly meet the Gods and Goddesses on your home ground.

A great book highly recommended

Bright Blessings

Merlyn

Real Witches. Real power. That is the premise of Kate West's new book, The Real Witches' Garden. In this book, like the others in the Real Witches' series Ms. West delves deeply into all the ways to bring your practice into focus using a garden. She states that since we are following a nature-based religion, we might as well do our rituals in nature. Makes sense to me.

Now, you apartment dwellers don't go skipping over this book. There are gardens for the very large area as well as for the non-existent outdoor space. Something for everyone, no matter the size of your space or property. And you might even grow that green thumb you never knew you had.

In 12 easy to digest chapters, we learn how to make and celebrate gardens of all sorts. We are taught about planning for things like pets and children. There are gardens with a focus on the Lady and Lord, the Elements, the Seasons, magic or healing.

Each chapter contains numerous rituals to plant and celebrate in the garden's focus. Gizmos and doodads are kept to a minimum, so costs are not a big deterrent in achieving one with the great outdoors.

While I enjoyed this book and found it interesting, the writing style took some getting used to, probably because the author is from the UK. This is an excellent book for a beginner either to the Craft or to gardening. Especially useful are the lists of correspondences in the book, as well as the chapter entitled "Take it from here" that lists further reading and resources.

I was also pleased with the appendix explaining what witchcraft really is. It included brief paragraphs on our beliefs, something that is usually overlooked in many witchcraft books. All in all this is nice, handy book to add to your spiritual library.

W. Lyon Martin Author/Illustrator of "An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child"

My parents recently moved into a house on a small plot of land, a bit of a garden in front and some in back. What I wanted to find, and am still looking for, is a book to help me magically protect the house and its dwellers by using plants and plant magic, as well as to boost prosperity, blessings, hapiness and health of people living on the land. Although this book covers garden as sacred space and theme gardening (elemental garden, medicinal, seasonal garden), as well as plants for magic and lunar gardening, it does not help with my primary gardening objective.

i like this book it's very informative. the only reason i give it 4 stars is because i think the author could have done a little more. but kudos all the same.

My husband has enjoyed this book very much. He is already planning his witchy garden for next season.

It includes many useful information about the greenery and gives some tips for the ones that does not have a "real garden" but a small balcony as well!