Side Effects: Insomnia, restlessness, anxiety, irritability, upset stomach, fatigue, dry mouth, dizziness, headache, skin rash, and diarrhea.
Drug Interactions: Antidepressants, allergy medications, cough medicines, immunosuppressants, HIV medication, birth control, sedatives, anticoagulants, and other drugs.
Ginseng:
Side Effects: Insomnia, menstrual problems, breast pain, increased heart rate, high or low blood pressure, headaches, loss of appetite, diarrhea, itching, skin rash, dizziness, mood changes, and vaginal bleeding.
Drug Interactions: Anticoagulants, antidepressants, anti-diabetic medications, aspirin, and morphine
Valerian:
Side Effects: Headaches, excitability, uneasiness, and insomnia.
Drug Interactions: Alcohol, anti-anxiety medications, and sedatives.
Lavender:
Side Effects: Constipation, headaches, skin irritation, and increased appetite.
Drug Interactions: Sedatives
Chamomile:
Side Effects: Drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, and thinning of the blood.
Drug Interactions: Alcohol, anti-anxiety medications, anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, antifungal drugs, birth control, insomnia medications, and sedatives.
Echinacea:
Side Effects: Nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, fever, sore throat, muscle or joint pain, dry mouth, headaches, dizziness, confusion, and insomnia.
Drug Interactions: Caffeine, immunosuppressants, and CYP’s
Aloe Vera:
Side Effects: Skin irritation, painful abdominal cramping, and diarrhea.
Drug Interactions: Laxatives, antidiabetes medications, anticoagulants, and diuretic medications.
Milk Thistle:
Side Effects: Nausea, diarrhea, indigestion, intestinal discomfort, bloating, pain, and loss of appetite.
Drug Interactions: CYP’s, cholesterol medications, and estrogen supplements.
WARNING: This is a short list of common herbs used by witches, and in witchcraft, and is by no means a completed list. Most herbs, if not all herbs, have side effects, or can potentially interact with other medications. So, please, never take any herbal supplements, or herbal remedies unless you have consulted with a doctor, or a medical professional beforehand. Stay safe, honey bees!
they are the most perfect amazing babies lets review the facts:
-non-flowering. she does not need flowers to be beautiful
-can reproduce with alien sexy times or by putting clone babies into a cup and waiting for the rain to splash them out of said cup (2 and 3 on the image are the alien sex organs, 1 is a leaf, 4 is a cute little cup of single-celled children)
-speaking of that the cups are hella cute, the best most amazing clone shooters
-is a liverwort. liverworts were among the first plants to climb out of the sea and shes still here!!! dinosaur baby
-also has big scales everywhere that are good for gently patting
-a TON of rhizoids (like roots but for nonvascular plants) coming from the underside of the leaves and they just kinda grow into whatever
-lives in mud
-genome is fully sequenced and is used as a model organism in science!!! helpful muddy scale friend
-heres a pic of some we collected for herbarium samples last saturday, she was living in a little colony on a really steep mud cliff and left a wet mud spot on my jeans but it is ok i love her:
theyre old and scaly and kind of all over the place and i love them ok
1) Acacia stenophylla, a tree legume. It already has true leaves coming in!
2) Pereskia grandifolia, a primitive/basal cactus that keeps its leaves and sort of looks like a cross between a rhododendron and a large rose bush.
3) Jacaranda mimosifolia, another tree and a legume-lookalike. I didn’t expect this many to germinate so I will have to figure out what to do with all the seedlings when they get bigger. 😛 They also have weird-looking cotyledons!
4) Aloe zebrina, more aloes forever
5) Hesperaloe parviflora, a cold hardy Agave relative and is not an aloe
I’m still waiting on the Cyphostemmas and Ferocactuses (which I didn’t expect to take this long since their seeds are smaller)
• Cacti are some of the only plants to photosynthesize from their stems. Their needles are really just modified leaves.
• Avocados are only around because people pollinate and disperse them by hand. The large seed is indigestible to small mammals now. It was originally eaten by giant sloths who would poop them out far away from the parent tree so they can grow. This is called an evolutionary anachronism.
• Banana candy does not taste like bananas because it was designed to taste like the Gros Michel banana which was eaten in the pre-1950s. It was wiped out by a fungus called panama disease. Since bananas are asexual all of them are genetically identical making it easy to wipe them all out at once. However fungus is sexual so it evolves more quickly. This means eventually we may lose the modern banana, the Cavendish, to it as well.
• There are actually three different types of photosynthesis: C3, C4, and CAM. Which type is used depends on the aridness of the environment, and are increasingly more efficient as listed.
• Moss is amazing. The fuzzy part of the moss is called the gametophyte stage and it is haploid meaning it has one set of chromosomes like a sperm or an egg cell in humans. If you look closely, sometimes you will what look like little tiny seeds on stems coming out of the main body. This is the sporophyte stage and it’s diploid, or has two sets of chromosomes, like our body cells. Moss is the oldest type of plant.
• You can usually tell what animal pollinates a plant by the color and shape of its flowers. Red flowers are hardly ever pollinated by bees because bees cannot see red well. Butterfly flowers have long deep centers. Bird pollinated plants can bear weight and are wide and open. Bat pollinated plants usually smell strongly and are darkly colored.
• Almost all American native elms and chestnut trees are extinct because of fungi. Asian chestnut and elm have replaced them, because they are resistant to the strains.
• There is a type of fern that has over 1200 chromosomes. For reference, humans have 46.
• If you shine consistent low level red light on a plant it will grow extremely tall, because red light tells the plant it is being shaded by and competing with other plants. If you shine consistent green light on a plant it will not sprout or die (if already sprouted) because plants absorb red and blue light to use. This is also why plants are green, because the unused green light is reflected back out.
TLDR; Plants are frickin cool and should get as much love as our animal friends.
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These plants are our personal fave. They all have many uses in witchcraft but we wrote down a few. Remember to take care of the living plants and use also dry herbs for a different approach 😉
Already starting to plan this years garden so I thought I should do a post on Witch Gardens
Moonlight Garden
A garden that blooms in the moonlight, a great place to perform night time rituals, meditations, or to just take a midnight stroll. A garden that is full of magick even after the sun sets.
Plants to add in your moonlight garden:
Moonflower: (Ipomoea alba) A nocturnal relative of the morning glory. Has fragrant flowers that open at dusk and close by dawn.
Evening Primrose: (Oenothera biennis) Has beautiful, scented flowers that bloom only at dusk.
Night Flox: (Zaluzianskya capensis) A sweetly fragranced flower that only unfurls its pinwheeled shaped flowers after dusk.
Four O’Clock: (Mirabilis jalapa) Its scented flowers bloom at around 4:00pm (hence its name) and do not close up until morning.
Queen of the Night: (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) A species of cactus whose flowers only open at night. Attracts moths and bats!!!
Night Blooming Jessamine: (Cestrum nocturnum) Strong, sweet scented star shaped flowers that only bloom at night. Attracts moths and bats!!! All parts are toxic, do not ingest!
Angel’s Trumpet: (Brugmansia) Produces a strong scent on warm summer evenings. All parts are toxic, do not ingest!
Evening Stock: (Matthiola longipetala) Produces lots of small blossoms that produce a perfume described as a mix of vanilla, rose, spice, and cloves only after the sun sets.
Ever-Flowering Gladiolus: (Gladiolus tristis) Release a strong almond fragrance after dusk.
Lilac: (Syringa vulgaris) Although has a perfume during the day, it is said to be a lot stronger after dark.
Flowering Tobacco: (Nicotiana) Open in the late afternoon and have a fragrance that smells of jasmine. All parts are toxic if ingested!
Summer Snapdragon: (Angelonia angustifolia) Preferably in white, to reflect the moonlight. Has a scent apple-scented foliage.
Silvermound: (Artemisia schmidtiana) Has thick foliage that will shimmer under the moonlight.
Jack Frost: (Brunnera macrophylla) Hdeart shaped leaves of silver and green, perfect to add more highlights of silver to your moon lit garden.
Any plant that blooms after dark or has white, lavender, pale pink, pale yellow on it is a perfect addition to your moonlight garden.
Things to add:
Stepping stones that have the phases of the moon.
Fairy lights
A place to sit
Candles
A small fountain to sing along with the insects and birds of the night
String charms and bells on tree branches for a soft jingling every time a gentle breeze passes.
Herb Garden
For witches who need a more practical garden for uses of healing, tea crafting, drying, and growing plants used in their practices.
Plants to add to your herb garden:
Anise: Helps to ward of the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulates psychic abilities.
Basil: Use for anything pertaining with love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits.
Bergamont: Corresponds with money and prosperity. Provides with protection from evil and illness, improves memory, stops interference, and promotes restful sleep.
Borage: Corresponds with courage and psychic powers.
Cat Nip: Is sacred to the Goddess Bast. Brings forth beauty, happiness, good luck, and good spirits.
Chamomile: Corresponds with love, healing, and sleep. Is known to reduce stress.
Chervil: Brings a sense of the higher self, placing you in touch with your divine, immortal spirit.
Coriander: Corresponds with love, health, immortality, and protection.
Dill: Corresponds with money, protection, luck and lust.
Lemon Balm: Corresponds with love, success, healing, and psychic/spiritual development.
Marjoram: Used to cleanse, purify, and to dispel negative energy.
Mint: Promotes energy, communication and vitality.
Oregano: Corresponds with joy, strength, vitality, and added energy
Parsley: Calms and protects the home.
Rosemary: Protects, cleanses, purifies, and aids memory.
Sage: Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss.
Thyme: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others.
Things to add:
A place to dry herbs
A place to compost any herb scraps
Rocks
A place to leave offerings before you harvest
Bee Garden
Make yourself a sanctuary to watch bees frolic and thrive
Plants to add to your bee garden:
Bee balm
Lavender
Crocus
Snow Drop
Wildflowers/Any native species
Catmint
Borage
Anise hyssop
Heliotrope
Sunflower
Oregano
Yarrow
Coneflower
Black eyed susan
Asters
Goldenrod
Foxglove
Marigold
Pansies
Sweet peas
Nasturtiums
Things to add:
Bee houses
Bee waterers/bee baths
Bee feeders
A place for offerings to the bees
Some other ideas for your garden:
Hummingbird garden
Medicinal garden
A garden whose plants and decorations represent/correspond with your practice.
Butterfly Garden
Faerie Garden
The options are endless! I hope this gives you some ideas for this years garden.
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