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Backyard Garden Witchery: Creating Magickal Space Outside Your Door
Transform Your Yard into a Place of Healing, Peace, and Power
Embrace the magick of gardening and grow your own living, breathing sanctuary. Laurel Woodward offers more than eighty spells, recipes, and activities for building, maintaining, and enjoying a biodiverse garden. This book teaches how to build a relationship with the green world while keeping your backyard garden sacred and safe. You'll explore plant energies and land spirits, the care of herb, vegetable, and flower gardens, working with your home's soil and hardiness zone, and much more.
A natural companion to Kitchen Witchery, this beginner-friendly book also provides a compendium of garden plants, including common weeds, culinary herbs, and perennials. Laurel helps you design the perfect space for herbalism, meditation, spellwork, divination, healing, or worship. With her guidance, you'll create a natural haven that feeds your sense of wonder and enhances your connection to the earth.
Embrace the magick of gardening and grow your own living, breathing sanctuary. Laurel Woodward offers more than eighty spells, recipes, and activities for building, maintaining, and enjoying a biodiverse garden. This book teaches how to build a relationship with the green world while keeping your backyard garden sacred and safe. You'll explore plant energies and land spirits, the care of herb, vegetable, and flower gardens, working with your home's soil and hardiness zone, and much more.
A natural companion to Kitchen Witchery, this beginner-friendly book also provides a compendium of garden plants, including common weeds, culinary herbs, and perennials. Laurel helps you design the perfect space for herbalism, meditation, spellwork, divination, healing, or worship. With her guidance, you'll create a natural haven that feeds your sense of wonder and enhances your connection to the earth.
408 pages, Paperback
Published July 8, 2022
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May 25, 2023
Overall I really enjoyed this book. The information is equally balanced between mundane information and magickal. The writing is the perfect blend of casual and informative.
The best part of the book—and what makes me want to go buy this—is the second half. There are common flowers, herbs, and veggies that we all come across. Whether you plan to grow them or use them in your magickal kitchen, there are quite a few often overlooked in Witchcraft books. This alone was a huge push for me to go buy a copy of this book.
Downsides include some questionable spells in the first part:
Pg 86
“Spell to draw the love of the one you desire”
Pg 90
“Apple blossom compulsion spell”
Consent and free will are completely tossed out the window. Personally, that alone cost this book a star. Otherwise, it would’ve been a 5/5 for me. Encouraging readers to actively do magick on another without explicit consent is a no for me.
The other thing I didn’t like was the lack of a conclusion. The abrupt ending that is unfortunately becoming more common is not something I like. A simple paragraph or two at the end would’ve been nice.
That said, I still think this is a book worth getting if you’re interested in making a magickal garden or you’re a kitchen witch.
The best part of the book—and what makes me want to go buy this—is the second half. There are common flowers, herbs, and veggies that we all come across. Whether you plan to grow them or use them in your magickal kitchen, there are quite a few often overlooked in Witchcraft books. This alone was a huge push for me to go buy a copy of this book.
Downsides include some questionable spells in the first part:
Pg 86
“Spell to draw the love of the one you desire”
Pg 90
“Apple blossom compulsion spell”
Consent and free will are completely tossed out the window. Personally, that alone cost this book a star. Otherwise, it would’ve been a 5/5 for me. Encouraging readers to actively do magick on another without explicit consent is a no for me.
The other thing I didn’t like was the lack of a conclusion. The abrupt ending that is unfortunately becoming more common is not something I like. A simple paragraph or two at the end would’ve been nice.
That said, I still think this is a book worth getting if you’re interested in making a magickal garden or you’re a kitchen witch.
September 25, 2022
Whether you are a city dweller struggling to grow in your apartment, a beginning gardener and witch, or an experienced plant lover and practitioner, Backyard Garden Witchery will give you endless creative ways to reconnect and reinvent your relationship with nature. In this magical, poetic, and comprehensive guide on how you can craft and enjoy a garden in any environment, Laurel Woodward will inspire you to connect with the flow of energy in your own backyard like you never have before! This approachable, impressive, and artistic work will help anyone deepen their relationship with nature spirits in new, exciting, and engaging ways, and deserves a permanent spot on every green witch’s book shelf!
I read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review :)
I read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review :)
May 31, 2025
Great reference but it was missing … PICTURES! Even little pen ink sketches would have been helpful. I also think she missed the opportunity to offer a few garden plan layouts.
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