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Fiels of goldenseal

Goldenrod

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors
Materia Poetica Oh, Goldenrod, Solidago, you’re misunderstood. Your blossoms are pretty and your medicine’s good. With dozens of species hailing from New York state Insects are eager for nectar and pollen on their plates. You bloom in late summer as the sun begins to fade Draw out birds, bees, and butterflies like a nature parade. Huang Hua reduces swelling and...
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Bee Balm with big bumble bee

Bee Balm

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors
Materia Poetica (Sung to the tune of, "You Are My Sunshine.") You’re known as Bee Balm, and Wild Bergamot. You make bees happy, when in full bloom. You’re a fast grower, and will take over Just like mint, you need lots of room. Monarda fistulosa is native to the US But named in honor of a botanist in Spain. The Native...
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Lughnasadh, Lammas, and Freyfaxi

By Seasons

The harvest festival goes by many names: Lammas/Lughnasadh and the Northern European Pagan Tradition Freyfaxi/Loaffest and Anglo-Saxon Hláfmæst. Below is a video that shares some of the history associated with this Wheel of the Season.    ✨   ✨   ✨   ✨   ✨   Mint is an ancient herb close to the Druids, as it is known for its protection and healing…

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Close up of raspberry leaves

Red Raspberry

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors
American Red Raspberry, you’re native in the states. For luscious berry treasures, we longingly await. A thorny bush of shelter you motherly provide small plant and animal protection under and inside. When birthing a baby, Fu Pen Zi leaf tea will aid in and shorten a mother’s delivery. Dried Rubus strigosus leaves smell like black tea. There’s no nervous jitter...
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Linden

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors
Linden, oh linden, you flowering tree You know how to soothe so much nervous in me I pick your sweet flowers to make a nice tea Then you help to soothe me and set my mind free Tilia americana, my sweet smelling trees Your lime blossom qualities really are the bees knees All the stress I experience and trauma I...
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Bumblebee on apple blossom

Bumblebee

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors

Spring is here and so are the bees! Let’s meet one of your friendly neighbors. A bumblebee, also referred to as a bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee, is in the genus Bombus, within the family Apidae, one of the bee families, and is any of over 250 species. Bumblebees are important pollinators of plants in your backyard garden, such as…

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Blue violets

April Delight

By Glitter Witch Gardens, Meet Your Neighbors

Early spring always brings about an internal giddiness. As I drove down I-295 this weekend, the subtle hue of color told me that the trees are just beginning to wake up from their winter slumber. Mother Nature has pulled off their covers and is rousing them awake like children after the holiday winter break. “Get up you sleepy heads. There…

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Florence, Oregon

By Travel
WEDNESDAY My uncle has lived in Florence for several years now, but this is the first time I have had a chance to come visit him. In fact, this is the first time I have ever been to Oregon. We set off around 9:00 AM on Wednesday, September 7th. At first, we tried to catch an Uber to the train...
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Purple mocktail with a sugar mint rim around the wine glass

Color Changing Mocktail

By Glitter Witch Gardens
Tonight I am planning on making a fancy mocktail called the "Color-Changing Butterfly Pea Flower Botanical Drink." I have many of the ingredients to make it, but I need lavender flowers to make the lime-flower ice cubes. Lucky for me, I have permission from my friend Ramona to pick her French lavender - Lavandula x intermedia 'Provence' (Lavender). I have...
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