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Where do you want to your garden, how much sun/shade does it have?
Some plants can’t thrive in sunlight, whereas others bloom, so when deciding on where, take what type of garden and what you want to grow in it, into consideration.
What are the soil conditions?
Creating a Witchy Garden
Firstly, think about how you want to use your space, do you want to harvest magical ingredients for spells? or a place of peace, healing, and renewal?
Gardens can be any shape or size, don’t think because if you live in a flat, or rent a room somewhere, you can’t make your own space to grow your favourite things. Indoor plants can be classed as your indoor garden space.
Your witchy garden can be permanent or temporary, formal or casual, complex or simple. It can fill a large garden area or a small spot on a balcony, patio, or indoors, it all depends on what you want to get out of it and what space you have.
You can choose to create a new witchy garden from new, or you can simply 'witch up' an existing space. However you want to start, there are some simple questions you should consider:
What could you grow?
Think about the herbs, flowers, and plants you use based on their magical attributes, their colours, or even their whimsical or witchy names.
We will be learning more about these in later articles!
Perhaps you already have a beautiful garden, but want
to witch it up. Some outdoor spaces have the wrong sort of soil for
growing plants and flowers, or maybe to dry or swamp like, you may have to do some digging and treating before growing what you want.
How much maintenance do you want?
Some gardens can be high maintenance, depending on what you plant and in design. Research first, as if you don’t have time to be constantly green fingered, and you cannot tend to it and it will either get overgrown, or die. If you are looking for a space that almost looks after itself, with a little help from you, research which plants, flowers and shrubs to plant that do exactly that.
Here are some ideas to give it a more witchy feel.
There are some wonderful outdoor and indoor witchy signs about, place them on the ground, on the walls, and in your pots.
Use your cauldrons as planters, some garden centres actually have round pots with legs on for larger plants, you can always paint it, if it is the wrong colour. Square pots can be painted to look like fairy houses, in fact they can be painted to look like whatever you want them to be. Just use waterproof paint if your pots are
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