Hedgecraft Archives - Celtic Earth Spirit

Plants Personalities – How to Develop Relationships

Plants have personalities?? Most definitely.
Developing a relationship with a plant is not too dissimilar to developing a relationship with another human being (or any other living creature). When we first meet another being we don’t know if we want to be friends with them; because we don’t know anything about them.

Hawthorn – Ancient, Magical & Sacred Trees 1

by CelticEarthSpirit

The Hawthorn has more connections with ancient beliefs & traditions than almost any other tree. The Lore, traditions, connections with Faerie Folk & magic go back millennia

In the SecretGarden

by CelticEarthSpirit

OK – so we changed the name of the blog from EarthBlog to SecretGarden – Why? In the SecretGarden explains.

There was nothing wrong with the name EarthBlog per se. It had seemed a natural name to pick; being the blog section of Celtic Earth Spirit whose aim is to be a resource of all things ‘Old Ways’; our indigenous earth-centred culture.

Wildcrafting (Foraging) for the C21st

by CelticEarthSpirit

What is called Wildcrafting today we used to call foraging when I was a kid.

As a child, in the 1960’s, I spent many happy hours grubbing about in hedgerows and other wild places, seeking out our indigenous plants for my grandmothers ‘recipes’.

Frankincense – The Feel-Good Healer

by CelticEarthSpirit

Frankincense – an aromatic resin obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae, is also known as olibanum.

Latin Name: Boswellia carterii syn. Boswellia sacra

Family: Burseraceae

Common Names: Boswellie, Olibans, Olibanum, Olibano, Salai Tree, Oleo-Gum-Resin

Vervain – The Herb of Enchantment

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Vervain

Common Vervain – The Herb of Enchantment, has been long been associated with divine and other supernatural forces.

The Humble & Persistent Little Weed – Plantain

by CelticEarthSpirit

Plantain is generally considered to be a weed; one description, referring to Plantago major, even reads ‘a short, fat, ugly weed’!! But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Wise Woman’s Power Plant – Mugwort

by CelticEarthSpirit

The Wise Woman’s Power Plant – Mugwort. Or to give it it’s proper name Artemisia vulgaris LINN, is rightly justified in being called that. Named after the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, the moon, virginity and protector of young girls; Artemis.