I started my herb garden when I bought my very old home in 2010. Since I wanted to get a head start on growing, I bought tray after tray of potted herbs from my local garden center along with seeds to stagger the growing coverage. The nursery owner actually warned me of the invasive nature of some of them, like mint and oregano, and I just said "Good! I want them everywhere because deer won't eat them" I'm so happy that I did because I have herbs everywhere and I give clippings and babies to anyone who wants them. My favorites are chive and lemon thyme because they last about 9 months of the year.
ALSO they smell good when walking on them! My sister used mint & one that smells like lemon Pledge as a border of her path from the driveway to the house & koi pond! It's filled in nicely!
I use a 5 gallon fish tank I purchased at my local pet store (on sale too! Yay!) To start my seedlings in. It has a glass top which allows the LED light (or a hanging grow light) to shine upon the soil and seedlings once they sprout. It helps keep the temperature and humidity perfectly. I live in Canada , Northern Ontario and growing herbs indoors is a MUST during the winter as the months are long and cold and I live in a rural area. I find the fish tank great to start seedlings in and I have a 50 & 80 Gallon that I use as my indoor herbs gardens for the winter. Just thought I'd add this in case anyone has an old fish tank laying around that you could use instead of purchasing a mini-herb garden set up for $250 and up! People sell them for cheap online or on marketplace for fb ect, they are used ,and that's how I got my 50gallon and 80gallon. Paid $30 for the 50g and $50 for the 80g.
🌿 My favourite herb tip 🌿 You can grow chamomile from the contents of the teabags, as they contain seeds! 🌼 Happy growing! May your harvests be fruitful 😊 🌱
Aww thankyou my love!! I really wanted to make one like this as like you say, there are really not many!!! So I'll make what I can't see thankyou!! Hehe 💚🥰🌱🥰💚
I need to start a herb garden this year as I've not done it for a few years as I've been grieving after losing my brother, partner and then my sweet Mum. Gardening really helps me when I'm feeling low. Good luck with your garden and everyone who does one for theirselves. Love your vlogs they help soothe my racing mind. Blessings love and light ❤💛💚✌
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss 💚💚💚 Sending healing your energy your way 💚💚💚 you are so right about gardening helping in times of need... It's something about the combination of all the senses that can truly heal and help us through 💚💚 Lots of love
So sorry for your loss of your loved ones 🙏I am in the same boat. I lost my Aunt, Dad, Step mum , Cousin and Kitty all since the fall of 2020. I am also looking forward to growing some herbs as it is very therapeutic. Best of luck with your garden and hope you start to heal. Many Blessings 🙏🙏
Alwyn! You are one of my favorite people. Thank you for sharing yourself with us. I am excited to share this with you, as you have shared your knowledge with us: If you take a cutting from your Mother's Rosemary plant, pull off the bottom bits and put it in water, it will sprout roots. Almost every time I do this, it works fabulously! I even buy grocery store cut herbs, the ones in the small plastic cartons, and select the best ones. Then I pull off the bottom leaves, recut the bases, and put them in vases until they sprout roots. Then I plant them outside! I have Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano & Sage in my Garden that are 4 years old now!
I’ve used eggshells many times to start my seeds. It’s free and the plants love it! You can also get trays at the dollar store or, if using eggshells, just cut off the top of the container and use that to hold them.
Watch out with mugwort! It was already on the property we live on and it is the most invasive plant I’ve ever encountered! We’ve removed it multiple years and the roots break easily and a tiny piece can grow new plants and spread
I was at the garden centre yesterday Alwyn buying my herbs so I was delighted to see this. My uncle told me to pour boiling water over parsley seeds once they were in the soil😳I thought he was nuts… but I tried it and it’s the best crop of parsley I ever had! Sounds so odd but it really worked xx
Rosemary and lavender like gritty soil and loves warm weather I have row of lavender in my garden and two very healthy rosemary bushes. you can take cuttings from both too.
I have an oregano plant that is basically a hedge at this point, so watch out for that one too. Maybe give it its own pot. Also: watch out with sage. It's does cleanse a space but is traditionally used to call in ancestral spirits as well. Cedar is better for purely cleaning a space. Love this video! Those wood labels are so cute!
I'm also known to kill lavender and rosemary 😔 and I'm with you on the parsley!! I was always eating it out of my grandmas garden as a kid and I do it in my own garden now! Love this video and gardening! 💚🪴
I was actually in the process of starting seeds in doors when this started playing. It was a wonderful coincidence. Starting birth her s and veggies because I have short growing season when I live. Happy gardening
I got really interested in Herbs after visiting an 800 year old herb garden at Michelham Priory in E.Sussex. I was amazed at the knowledge the medieval monks had regarding their medicinal qualities. I hope you have success with your rosemary and lavender this year. x
This is quite helpful....as a naturalist I love making oils with herbs. Last Christmas I collected rosehips which I made into a lovely skin oil. 🌺💕🌷💕🌺💕🌷💕🌺 You might add rosemary oil to your shampoo..... this will increase growth. My hair is three ft long 🦋
Of the herbs I've grown, rosemary does best. It started as a small plant and flourished into a bush. If I remember correctly, I got it at a supermarket. Had it for a few years and still strong. Seems very resilient. It's drought tolerant and I don't have to water it much. Though I'm in a warm climate and don't get frosts much, it survived a frost. It smells amazing! Thank you also for the idea of compostable starter pots. I have small paper cups I haven't used in years, though I kept them because I don't want to waste. This is a great idea of what I can do with them, start plants, plant them into the ground in the cups, and let the cups biodegrade.
I just wanted to say, every week I think I believe more in magic and fairies. Two weeks ago I planted my herbs from cuttings and they were pretty tiny. I just hoped they'd survive. I put little fairy houses around them and some pots of cut glass just because I thought it looked cool. Today I went out and my herbs had gone crazy, tripled in size. I had to split them up and put them in bigger pots. What? So, I thanked the fairies and added some moss to their little houses. I've never had plants do this well. And I think you and the people here who watch your videos might be the only people I know who would understand this. Thank you for opening my eyes to this world.
My hands were too covered in stuff to write yesterday. I watched this while I made a garden fairy chandelier. I came back to rewatch and thank you for the lovely video. Your Herbal BOS is absolute perfection. I recently bought a book of my own! I’m so excited to start creating in it! I hope this message finds you well. You are so loved and appreciated. 💖💕 Sending you so much love and light dear one.
This is my first year I'm going to be starting herbs. This video made me feel a lot better about not having expert knowledge, as like you say, this is something you learn about and continue to build on for the rest of your life. Also, love the idea of setting intentions on your seeds and keeping a Botanical Book of Shadows! Thanks as always Alwyn ❤🌿
Oohh, the magick of Spring! I make TH-cam videos in a similar spirit as yours (although I'm a bit newer) this got me so excited to film my next Spring video where I'll be planning out my garden and documenting all the world coming back to life (although I live in a very different zone than you so we're still a few weeks behind in Spring's arrival). One thing I've found to be really powerful in recent years has been that in addition to reading about the magical properties others have assigned to herbs and plants -- I sit and meditate/attune to their energy for myself to get my own personal insight. Thank you so much for sharing your magic! 💚
Hi Alwyn - beautiful content! I want to share a magical technique I learned from the young woman who writes the blog Voice of Nature: before placing seeds in the soil, put the seeds in your mouth and then put the intention into them that these seeds will grow healthy AND develop the qualities that your body will need from them, or that you plan to use them for. Great way to establish a link between yourself and the plants! Love and light to you
We live in the woods so do not get enough Sun in the courtyard ..we have a very thin garden up the other end of the driveway with Herbs . We moved in 17 years ago and there were small plants and what We though were decorative Bananas ...the Rosemary Bush went berserk and is so large we have to rope it back towards the fence and last Year We had our first bunch of Bananas... this year there is 2 bunches ..one with over 100 tiny tasty Bananas. The Italian Parsley self seeds every year as do the Freesias and Granny's Bonnet flowers .Also have Lemon balm (which is divine in a calming Bath or Tea) MInt, Sage, and Violets .Amazed at how much grows in a tiny garden less than 2 feet wide and the difference they make to Our Meals . We also put in a Bee /Herb Garden across in the small park next to the Kindergarten 7 years ago ...one small Rosemary grew taller than I am, as did a tiny Rose (They are so Tiny but have a heavenly scent , will let most for hips as Rosehips are full of Vit C) that we found growing in a crack in the path...they loved growing together , as did the Lavender bush, Thyme, Italian Parsley, Mint ... unfortunately the Kindy had their fence and retaining wall replaced ...I managed to get the council to move the stone blocks and some of the plants but as they removed them with a digger all of them died! I am so sad .as part from the Bees not having flowers to feed off in Autumn , I would use them for cooking ,also make all my Smudge stick with them , and others in Our tiny street would pick them for their dinner too .Wished I had been told earlier as I would have transplanted them all. I am now planning on having the Bee Garden on the other side as I do not want to grow them next to the treated wood. The Kindy has offered to buy some Herbs for the Garden which is lovely . You video is in perfect timing and has sparked my Energy again so thanks ever so much and brought me out of my Grief for the loss ... Grizabella Moonbeam in New Zealand x
Alwyn! Thank you so very much for this one! I love how you give the seeds love and energy before planting them. I'm going to do the same. I started lavender from seed and it is doing really well. Happy on the sunny kitchen window sill, makes me so happy just to look at the seedlings. Can't wait to get out there. I'll be thinking of you while I do. 💝 you are the best teacher. 💝
I lived along a river beach....and planted a little zen beach garden...up on the bank above high tide line ..where there grew a huge 7' tall wild old fennel plant....next to the old fennel about 3 feet away, but not totally in its shadow, just a little.......I planted a little 6" tall rosemary plant....and watered it through the hot summer for 2 years....the soil was sandy and gravely with a little potting soil added (very little)...I moved from there 11 years ago and now when going back to look.... the rosemary is still there more than waist high...proudly growing.... next to the old 7 ft. fennel plant....and it is next to a path called the river walk where passerbyers can pick it fresh on their walk. That's the only rosemary I've had such good luck with.....real good drainage , dont overwater, and sunshine...
I has such hard time growing lavender that I just bought a lavender plant this year. The rosemary, basil, and lavender I bottom water because it's just so much easier. I either over or under water. With the bottom watering, they take what they need and it's fun watching them suck up water like a straw. Lol I also got a Venus flytrap but I don't recommend watching videos on them bc people are cruel and feed them live bugs. I catch flys in the water bowl for my cats and feed them those, but just makes sure they're dry first on a paper towel. My flytrap got too cold in my window and when I fed them the wet flys they died. I need bigger pots for my veggies. I love planting things, and watching them grow. Great video Alwyn 🥰🥰
I also put my flytrap in an area where theres knats and flys in the garden or house and they catch them. The plant itself has an interesting sweet smell. I usually get my seeds from dallor tree. You get 4 packets for a $1. I got gladiolus bulbs this year they're coming up nicely. They almost always grow when I get the cheap heirloom seeds from dallor tree. They're left over from last year that they couldn't sell in other stores. I hope to grow mugwort and moonwort someday. And get a table top glass greenhouse. About 2 ft by 2 ft is the biggest.
This was wonderful! I have been making a balcony herb garden and I am excited to try some of these amazing tips and I am so happy to know that my lavender 🪻will bring bees to my garden I love bees they are so important for the planet❤🐝 I love your organizing tips also, the Herbal Book of Shadows will be fun to make! Thank you🙏☺️
Very nice and helpful video Alwyn 😊Thank you ! Lots of great information. I have found that it is much easier to grow Rosemary from cuttings placed in water or buying a small established plant from the nursery as the seeds take a long time to germinate, about 3 months. I really enjoy your videos . You have a sweet calming nature. Much love and many Blessings and good luck with your gardening 🌿🌿💚💚
I grow Anise Hyssop in my garden, it makes a wonderful tea. Rosemary loves to be misted every few days or so with epsom salt dissolved in water as they thrive on the Mediterranean sea side mountain regions.
Love this video! I’m starting a herb garden this year as well! I just discovered pineapple sage yesterday, smells amazing! Thank you for sharing, I hope we can see them grow over time🥰
I've noticed it's harder to start perennial herbs from seed. This includes hyssop for me. Also lavender and rosemary. But the baby plants I get from the garden center do very well when she find a spot they like to be. My mugwort is actually a volunteer plant in my yard which was a pleasant surprise
Lavender and rosemary prefer to be in the ground they love sun and not too much watering and mugwort is really easy to grow-mine returns every spring and grows about 4 feet tall in a big black cauldron pot on my back patio. I haven’t tried hyssop, but I bought sorrel last year and it grows like crazy (that one can affect the kidneys so only use occasionally) I think I have all the others same as you Alwyn. Such fun! 🌱☺️🌱
I would like to recommend growing Borage. Borage is very easy to grow; it has beautiful blue flowers and light green leaves which add beauty, texture, and a delicious cucumber taste to salads or for eating just right out of the garden; it has healthful antioxidants and essential fatty acids; and most of all: "Borage brings always courage."
I found you by accident! Love your soothing voice! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your life with us! Also lovemyour faery bedroom ❤❤❤! I love gardening and keep and use all my Heras I also share with my neighbors, Blessings ❤❤❤❤
I’m just starting my magic herb Garden but I chose saffron to start with. I’ve only grown similar bulb/corm flowers In the past but I’ve read in some books and articles that saffron is overlooked in green witchcraft. I’m quite excited to see if they grow, especially since where I’m located is a good climate zone for it 🤞🏻💚
First,I love your videos, and the way in which you present your information. In case you don’t already know this, mugwort (artemisia vulgaris) is very invasive and therefore I recommend you plant it in a pot and keep an eye for volunteers in your garden as it spreads vigorously
What a great walk thru the majik land of herbs! As I have sometime....I will send you some recipes for local " Native American " Herb uses! Til later, Dear Lady of the Enchanted Woods!
I'm very new I love watching. your videos bring so much love and a very calm atmosphere around me thank you for helping me to start my magical witches garden please create more videos they are so magical blessed be 💙💚💜🌿
Hi Alwyn, lovely video. I planted a bunch of herb seeds in starter trays about a week ago and the are in the same little green house you have. I have two of them. I have been growing rosemary and lavender for decades they get huge here in California and I am always making oils for friends. I love your book for journaling them and those cute wood plant names sticks your so creative 🌻🌱🍄🌿🌼🌷
It's looking very likely that I'll be moving to a hotter climate soon...which I'm not really looking forward to because I HATE the heat! But I've been thinking of freshly grown herbs a lot recently. I think a hot weather herb garden will help lessen the pain of the heat quite a lot!
I made the mistake one year of planting carrots in those peat pots. The carrots were short, fat, and tasted of moss as the pot never really dissolved. This year I've already gotten my herbs in pots. I want to make a window shelf to hang in front of my kitchen window so I can move the herbs inside. My whole front walk is flanked by mint. I love having it there. However, if it gets stepped on my entryway smells like breath mints. :) I decided this year I want to learn all about herbs and how to use them. My son says I'm going to be a herbologist. :) Do you have any suggestions for good sources to learn about the uses of herbs?
lovely video. so informative. I live in the mountains my backyard is a forest. tried growing herbs but only lemon balm survived. we have so much wildlife here. The deer tend to eat a lot of what I plant. if course we have black bears too. They mostly go through our garbage.
Peat free! Peat is found in bogs and alot of the bogs and environments its in has been destroyed for garden compost. But also peat contains little to no nutrients for plants to grow. 💚💚💚
Beautiful herb garden Alwyn! I so enjoy your inspiring lifestyle. Hyssop and Rosemary are excellent for your respiratory system. Hyssop tea is helpful when you have bronchitis or upper respiratory issues. Basil tea helps calm a cough. Coriander is not only a great herb to cook with but is also a natural diuretic which is great for our monthly menses when we are bloated and have too much water weight.
I love your voice its so calming and relaxing. Such a beautiful lady too. Love your videos and im pretty new to all the witchy stuff so everything helps. Thanks Alwyn😎
Hi hi 😊 Rosemary is my easiest herb to grow ( although I am in Australia) but I have taken cuttings placed them in water and put them on the kitchen window updating the water every so often ..
This video was so inspiring to me and I want to create my own herb garden now. I only have rosemary, lavender and bayleaf) and they are doing grate. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
I never have luck starting herbs 🌿 from seed. I even struggle with getting small plants to take hold. Most die come July with the sun 🌞 and heat being so strong. Everything gets burnt. When you can grow them, they are beautiful.
Love the relaxing video watching you planet the garden outside of your home and really do enjoy all the beautiful colors and flowers and planets hope u are enjoying the beautiful weather ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
I just learned this year that lavender likes the cold when germinating, so I have my seeds on a wet paper towel covered in a ziplock bag in the fridge for about 40 days! Not sure if it will work but it is still fun to experiment!!
So much information and inspiration! I can't wait to see your beautiful garden growing throughout the spring and summer. I love hyssop! It brings lots of bees! Blessed Bee!
I love this so much! Perfect timing, of course, as I want to get my seeds going, you are inspiring me with information and confidence. I really love your herb Book of Shadows ideas to keep track of each herb. A million thanks!
I’ve planted everything you had except mugwort (and many, many more lol). I’m very interested in seeing how you use the mugwort. I’m also nurturing a LOT of vegetables this year. Doing my best to go more plant based.
Lovely video....I've been a gardener since a small child and am very fortunate I have a reasonable sized garden to indulge myself - I grow the majority of herbs for my practice but also lots of veg, berries and fruit and loads of flowers. Mugwort gets huge and it spreads, so keep that in mind, I've not grown it in a pot but in my garden I have to prune it several times a year. Hyssop is one of my favs (anaise Hyssop is a particular favorite) - it's part of the mint family 😊 If you eat meat, meat trays make great drip trays and can last for years, great way to recycle and reuse, and cheap. Lastly (cause I could go on all day about my fav subject) the easiest way to grow lavender and rosemary is to take soft wood cuttings, both are quite difficult to grow from seed.
Ohh thankyou SO much for your advice and knowledge it is so greatly appreciated! And thanks for the tips about the rosemary and lavender, i haven't grown them from seed before so we shall wait and see what happens there!!!
Wonderful!! You have a great selection of herbs.. im the same with Rosemary, very hard to grow and Basil.. look forward to seeing how they progress, im setting mine tomorrow.. thank you for another great video 🥰❤🌱🌱
I started my herb garden when I bought my very old home in 2010. Since I wanted to get a head start on growing, I bought tray after tray of potted herbs from my local garden center along with seeds to stagger the growing coverage. The nursery owner actually warned me of the invasive nature of some of them, like mint and oregano, and I just said "Good! I want them everywhere because deer won't eat them" I'm so happy that I did because I have herbs everywhere and I give clippings and babies to anyone who wants them. My favorites are chive and lemon thyme because they last about 9 months of the year.
ALSO they smell good when walking on them! My sister used mint & one that smells like lemon Pledge as a border of her path from the driveway to the house & koi pond! It's filled in nicely!
That sounds Awesome 😊I love lemon thyme also 🥰
I use a 5 gallon fish tank I purchased at my local pet store (on sale too! Yay!) To start my seedlings in. It has a glass top which allows the LED light (or a hanging grow light) to shine upon the soil and seedlings once they sprout. It helps keep the temperature and humidity perfectly. I live in Canada , Northern Ontario and growing herbs indoors is a MUST during the winter as the months are long and cold and I live in a rural area. I find the fish tank great to start seedlings in and I have a 50 & 80 Gallon that I use as my indoor herbs gardens for the winter. Just thought I'd add this in case anyone has an old fish tank laying around that you could use instead of purchasing a mini-herb garden set up for $250 and up! People sell them for cheap online or on marketplace for fb ect, they are used ,and that's how I got my 50gallon and 80gallon. Paid $30 for the 50g and $50 for the 80g.
🌿 My favourite herb tip 🌿
You can grow chamomile from the contents of the teabags, as they contain seeds! 🌼
Happy growing! May your harvests be fruitful 😊 🌱
No way!!! Thanks so much for the tip!! 😃💚🌳🌱🌲
Wow that’s awesome. I wonder if any others will grow?
Wow! That is definitely cool info! I'm going to try that!
Please do more of these videos !!! I’m a green witch and love learning the magic behind plants
Aww thankyou!! Yes of course I will 💚🧚🏻♂️
YES! there isn't many witchy videos dedicated to the garden and the knowledge! thank you for this queen!
Aww thankyou my love!! I really wanted to make one like this as like you say, there are really not many!!! So I'll make what I can't see thankyou!! Hehe 💚🥰🌱🥰💚
@Sacred Cottage Book of Light thanks for that recommendation!!
** Danu's Irish Herb Garden on TH-cam is one of my favorites besides Alwyn.
I need to start a herb garden this year as I've not done it for a few years as I've been grieving after losing my brother, partner and then my sweet Mum.
Gardening really helps me when I'm feeling low. Good luck with your garden and everyone who does one for theirselves. Love your vlogs they help soothe my racing mind.
Blessings love and light ❤💛💚✌
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss 💚💚💚 Sending healing your energy your way 💚💚💚 you are so right about gardening helping in times of need... It's something about the combination of all the senses that can truly heal and help us through 💚💚 Lots of love
@@AlwynOak Thankyou Alwyn 🙏
So sorry to hear about your losses. Sending you much love and wishes for healing.
So sorry for your loss of your loved ones 🙏I am in the same boat. I lost my Aunt, Dad, Step mum , Cousin and Kitty all since the fall of 2020. I am also looking forward to growing some herbs as it is very therapeutic. Best of luck with your garden and hope you start to heal. Many Blessings 🙏🙏
Alwyn! You are one of my favorite people. Thank you for sharing yourself with us. I am excited to share this with you, as you have shared your knowledge with us:
If you take a cutting from your Mother's Rosemary plant, pull off the bottom bits and put it in water, it will sprout roots. Almost every time I do this, it works fabulously! I even buy grocery store cut herbs, the ones in the small plastic cartons, and select the best ones. Then I pull off the bottom leaves, recut the bases, and put them in vases until they sprout roots. Then I plant them outside! I have Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano & Sage in my Garden that are 4 years old now!
When the shoots have about two to three leaves, gently brush them with your hand to strengthen the stem. Mimics the wind
I’ve used eggshells many times to start my seeds. It’s free and the plants love it! You can also get trays at the dollar store or, if using eggshells, just cut off the top of the container and use that to hold them.
Watch out with mugwort! It was already on the property we live on and it is the most invasive plant I’ve ever encountered! We’ve removed it multiple years and the roots break easily and a tiny piece can grow new plants and spread
I've had the same rosemary plant in my yard for 12 years. This year I am doing another herb garden
While gardening I enjoy a sweet treat, a mint leaf and a stevia leaf. Chew chew yum yum.
I was at the garden centre yesterday Alwyn buying my herbs so I was delighted to see this.
My uncle told me to pour boiling water over parsley seeds once they were in the soil😳I thought he was nuts… but I tried it and it’s the best crop of parsley I ever had! Sounds so odd but it really worked xx
I've never heard of this, but I'm going to try it. Does it work with other herbs or only parsley?
Rosemary and lavender like gritty soil and loves warm weather I have row of lavender in my garden and two very healthy rosemary bushes. you can take cuttings from both too.
I have an oregano plant that is basically a hedge at this point, so watch out for that one too. Maybe give it its own pot.
Also: watch out with sage. It's does cleanse a space but is traditionally used to call in ancestral spirits as well. Cedar is better for purely cleaning a space. Love this video! Those wood labels are so cute!
I'm also known to kill lavender and rosemary 😔 and I'm with you on the parsley!! I was always eating it out of my grandmas garden as a kid and I do it in my own garden now! Love this video and gardening! 💚🪴
Mugwort is good in a tincture. I put my tincture in grape seed oil its great to help with bruises.
I was actually in the process of starting seeds in doors when this started playing. It was a wonderful coincidence. Starting birth her s and veggies because I have short growing season when I live. Happy gardening
Amazing video! Thanks so much for sharing your witchy wisdom :) 💖❤️🌺💖🌺greetings from Germany, we love you!
I got really interested in Herbs after visiting an 800 year old herb garden at Michelham Priory in E.Sussex. I was amazed at the knowledge the medieval monks had regarding their medicinal qualities. I hope you have success with your rosemary and lavender this year. x
I just began planting my herb garden yesterday so this video was a lovely surprise! Thank you for the information!
Spring has sprung!
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Ohhh how convenient hehe! Good luck with your herb garden my lovely!
I’m saving this to watch with my husband my dream is to have a herb garden so I have everything crossed this will be my year xx
This is quite helpful....as a naturalist I love making oils with herbs. Last Christmas I collected rosehips which I made into a lovely skin oil. 🌺💕🌷💕🌺💕🌷💕🌺 You might add rosemary oil to your shampoo..... this will increase growth. My hair is three ft long 🦋
I don't have room for an herb garden. I live in the city. The video is beautiful and I love herbs. Thank you! 🌱💚
Aww well a window ledge herb garden works very well also!!! Thankyou my lovely
Rosemary is really easy to grow from cuttings dipped into root hormone. Bees love this herb.
Of the herbs I've grown, rosemary does best. It started as a small plant and flourished into a bush. If I remember correctly, I got it at a supermarket. Had it for a few years and still strong. Seems very resilient. It's drought tolerant and I don't have to water it much. Though I'm in a warm climate and don't get frosts much, it survived a frost. It smells amazing!
Thank you also for the idea of compostable starter pots. I have small paper cups I haven't used in years, though I kept them because I don't want to waste. This is a great idea of what I can do with them, start plants, plant them into the ground in the cups, and let the cups biodegrade.
I just wanted to say, every week I think I believe more in magic and fairies. Two weeks ago I planted my herbs from cuttings and they were pretty tiny. I just hoped they'd survive. I put little fairy houses around them and some pots of cut glass just because I thought it looked cool. Today I went out and my herbs had gone crazy, tripled in size. I had to split them up and put them in bigger pots. What? So, I thanked the fairies and added some moss to their little houses. I've never had plants do this well. And I think you and the people here who watch your videos might be the only people I know who would understand this. Thank you for opening my eyes to this world.
My hands were too covered in stuff to write yesterday. I watched this while I made a garden fairy chandelier. I came back to rewatch and thank you for the lovely video. Your Herbal BOS is absolute perfection. I recently bought a book of my own! I’m so excited to start creating in it! I hope this message finds you well. You are so loved and appreciated. 💖💕 Sending you so much love and light dear one.
End of January 2023! Thank-you Alwyn Oak!
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I just came inside from gardening🌱🌿🥀 and here you are with a magical garden video 🤗 what a perfect end of the day
Awww that's amazing! I thought it about time I did a herb video!! I bang on about them enough hehe 🥰💚🌱
This is my first year I'm going to be starting herbs. This video made me feel a lot better about not having expert knowledge, as like you say, this is something you learn about and continue to build on for the rest of your life. Also, love the idea of setting intentions on your seeds and keeping a Botanical Book of Shadows! Thanks as always Alwyn ❤🌿
Oohh, the magick of Spring! I make TH-cam videos in a similar spirit as yours (although I'm a bit newer) this got me so excited to film my next Spring video where I'll be planning out my garden and documenting all the world coming back to life (although I live in a very different zone than you so we're still a few weeks behind in Spring's arrival). One thing I've found to be really powerful in recent years has been that in addition to reading about the magical properties others have assigned to herbs and plants -- I sit and meditate/attune to their energy for myself to get my own personal insight. Thank you so much for sharing your magic! 💚
This is my first time watching your videos. This was like watching a magic fairy in the spring planting. Just love it 😊
Thank you for another beautiful and calming video. I am so excited to see how your herb garden turns out! 😊🌱☀️🌷
Hi Alwyn - beautiful content! I want to share a magical technique I learned from the young woman who writes the blog Voice of Nature: before placing seeds in the soil, put the seeds in your mouth and then put the intention into them that these seeds will grow healthy AND develop the qualities that your body will need from them, or that you plan to use them for. Great way to establish a link between yourself and the plants!
Love and light to you
We live in the woods so do not get enough Sun in the courtyard ..we have a very thin garden up the other end of the driveway with Herbs . We moved in 17 years ago and there were small plants and what We though were decorative Bananas ...the Rosemary Bush went berserk and is so large we have to rope it back towards the fence and last Year We had our first bunch of Bananas... this year there is 2 bunches ..one with over 100 tiny tasty Bananas. The Italian Parsley self seeds every year as do the Freesias and Granny's Bonnet flowers .Also have Lemon balm (which is divine in a calming Bath or Tea) MInt, Sage, and Violets .Amazed at how much grows in a tiny garden less than 2 feet wide and the difference they make to Our Meals . We also put in a Bee /Herb Garden across in the small park next to the Kindergarten 7 years ago ...one small Rosemary grew taller than I am, as did a tiny Rose (They are so Tiny but have a heavenly scent , will let most for hips as Rosehips are full of Vit C) that we found growing in a crack in the path...they loved growing together , as did the Lavender bush, Thyme, Italian Parsley, Mint ... unfortunately the Kindy had their fence and retaining wall replaced ...I managed to get the council to move the stone blocks and some of the plants but as they removed them with a digger all of them died! I am so sad .as part from the Bees not having flowers to feed off in Autumn , I would use them for cooking ,also make all my Smudge stick with them , and others in Our tiny street would pick them for their dinner too .Wished I had been told earlier as I would have transplanted them all. I am now planning on having the Bee Garden on the other side as I do not want to grow them next to the treated wood. The Kindy has offered to buy some Herbs for the Garden which is lovely . You video is in perfect timing and has sparked my Energy again so thanks ever so much and brought me out of my Grief for the loss ... Grizabella Moonbeam in New Zealand x
Alwyn! Thank you so very much for this one! I love how you give the seeds love and energy before planting them. I'm going to do the same. I started lavender from seed and it is doing really well. Happy on the sunny kitchen window sill, makes me so happy just to look at the seedlings. Can't wait to get out there. I'll be thinking of you while I do. 💝 you are the best teacher. 💝
Those pieces of wood are to stick in the slits in the back of the frames of the canvases to stretch them if they feel loose!!!!
I lived along a river beach....and planted a little zen beach garden...up on the bank above high tide line ..where there grew a huge 7' tall wild old fennel plant....next to the old fennel about 3 feet away, but not totally in its shadow, just a little.......I planted a little 6" tall rosemary plant....and watered it through the hot summer for 2 years....the soil was sandy and gravely with a little potting soil added (very little)...I moved from there 11 years ago and now when going back to look.... the rosemary is still there more than waist high...proudly growing.... next to the old 7 ft. fennel plant....and it is next to a path called the river walk where passerbyers can pick it fresh on their walk. That's the only rosemary I've had such good luck with.....real good drainage , dont overwater, and sunshine...
It truly is like being transported to another realm watching your videos, thank you dear soul. ⚘
I has such hard time growing lavender that I just bought a lavender plant this year. The rosemary, basil, and lavender I bottom water because it's just so much easier. I either over or under water. With the bottom watering, they take what they need and it's fun watching them suck up water like a straw. Lol
I also got a Venus flytrap but I don't recommend watching videos on them bc people are cruel and feed them live bugs. I catch flys in the water bowl for my cats and feed them those, but just makes sure they're dry first on a paper towel. My flytrap got too cold in my window and when I fed them the wet flys they died. I need bigger pots for my veggies. I love planting things, and watching them grow. Great video Alwyn 🥰🥰
I also put my flytrap in an area where theres knats and flys in the garden or house and they catch them. The plant itself has an interesting sweet smell.
I usually get my seeds from dallor tree. You get 4 packets for a $1. I got gladiolus bulbs this year they're coming up nicely. They almost always grow when I get the cheap heirloom seeds from dallor tree. They're left over from last year that they couldn't sell in other stores.
I hope to grow mugwort and moonwort someday. And get a table top glass greenhouse. About 2 ft by 2 ft is the biggest.
This was wonderful! I have been making a balcony herb garden and I am excited to try some of these amazing tips and I am so happy to know that my lavender 🪻will bring bees to my garden I love bees they are so important for the planet❤🐝 I love your organizing tips also, the Herbal Book of Shadows will be fun to make! Thank you🙏☺️
This has only just cropped up in my feed, and ironically I have just planted my new herb garden for the year, lovely video 😊
These gardening videos are giving me so much hope. I'm in Canada and it's still so cold and we still have snow and below freezing weather 😢
I feel your pain. Northern US here.
Very nice and helpful video Alwyn 😊Thank you ! Lots of great information. I have found that it is much easier to grow Rosemary from cuttings placed in water or buying a small established plant from the nursery as the seeds take a long time to germinate, about 3 months. I really enjoy your videos . You have a sweet calming nature. Much love and many Blessings and good luck with your gardening 🌿🌿💚💚
You have a healing frequency...thank you.
I grow Anise Hyssop in my garden, it makes a wonderful tea. Rosemary loves to be misted every few days or so with epsom salt dissolved in water as they thrive on the Mediterranean sea side mountain regions.
3:19 How long does this last? Keeping the herb in the book would be so nice to do, does it last long or does it turn brown eventually?
Love this video! I’m starting a herb garden this year as well! I just discovered pineapple sage yesterday, smells amazing! Thank you for sharing, I hope we can see them grow over time🥰
I've noticed it's harder to start perennial herbs from seed. This includes hyssop for me. Also lavender and rosemary. But the baby plants I get from the garden center do very well when she find a spot they like to be. My mugwort is actually a volunteer plant in my yard which was a pleasant surprise
Rosemary is best suitable for zones 8 and up. They love constant sunlight and warmth. If you plant it straight in the ground it might grow better
Can't wait to see the progress of your herb garden! It's so exciting to watch them grow!
Thankyou sweet!! The plan is have a crazy amazing over the top herb garden this year 🥲🌱💚
@@AlwynOak You are off to a great start!🌱❤🌱
Lavender and rosemary prefer to be in the ground they love sun and not too much watering and mugwort is really easy to grow-mine returns every spring and grows about 4 feet tall in a big black cauldron pot on my back patio. I haven’t tried hyssop, but I bought sorrel last year and it grows like crazy (that one can affect the kidneys so only use occasionally) I think I have all the others same as you Alwyn. Such fun! 🌱☺️🌱
I would like to recommend growing Borage. Borage is very easy to grow; it has beautiful blue flowers and light green leaves which add beauty, texture, and a delicious cucumber taste to salads or for eating just right out of the garden; it has healthful antioxidants and essential fatty acids; and most of all: "Borage brings always courage."
Mugwort is one of my favorites. It grows wild here, so no need to plant it. I want to try growing woad, but seeds are not available here.
hi i loved the video!! the pieces of wood that come with canvases are to stretch the canvas when you put it in the corners of the canvas frame
There are different varieties of rosemary, so maybe trying a hanging variety vs the vertical-pointing bush variety. Happy growing! Love your garden!
Your video is so well put together and informative and your voice is so soothing 🫶
Thank you for mentioning peat free potting soil!!!
Of course!! Very important! 💚💚
I found you by accident! Love your soothing voice! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your life with us! Also lovemyour faery bedroom ❤❤❤! I love gardening and keep and use all my Heras I also share with my neighbors, Blessings ❤❤❤❤
I’m just starting my magic herb Garden but I chose saffron to start with. I’ve only grown similar bulb/corm flowers In the past but I’ve read in some books and articles that saffron is overlooked in green witchcraft. I’m quite excited to see if they grow, especially since where I’m located is a good climate zone for it 🤞🏻💚
Hello, how r u? What r the best indoor herbs to start w for beginners?
First,I love your videos, and the way in which you present your information. In case you don’t already know this, mugwort (artemisia vulgaris) is very invasive and therefore I recommend you plant it in a pot and keep an eye for volunteers in your garden as it spreads vigorously
I dry the purple chive flowers to sprinkle in salads and mashed potatoes.
What a great walk thru the majik land of herbs! As I have sometime....I will send you some recipes for local " Native American " Herb uses!
Til later, Dear Lady of the Enchanted Woods!
Why thankyou so much as always!! And that would be lovely and so helpful to learn more about them 💚🌲🌱 Thankyou! Have a lovely weekend 🌱🌲💚
@@AlwynOak I will n you, please, do the same!?
I'm very new I love watching. your videos bring so much love and a very calm atmosphere around me thank you for helping me to start my magical witches garden please create more videos they are so magical blessed be 💙💚💜🌿
I really needed this little guide. Thank you!! Can't wait to start my own herb garden :3 🌿
Perfect timing! I just moved to a new home and finally have a little bit of outdoor space for a container garden. Thanks, Alwyn! 💚
I can't wait to get my seeds started! Can you show us more about how you made, use & decorate your garden BOS?
Yes of course! I showed the process of it on my Preparing for Spring video 💚💚💚💚
Hi Alwyn, lovely video. I planted a bunch of herb seeds in starter trays about a week ago and the are in the same little green house you have. I have two of them. I have been growing rosemary and lavender for decades they get huge here in California and I am always making oils for friends. I love your book for journaling them and those cute wood plant names sticks your so creative 🌻🌱🍄🌿🌼🌷
What a charming video dear Alwyn, thank you very much 💚🌱
It's looking very likely that I'll be moving to a hotter climate soon...which I'm not really looking forward to because I HATE the heat! But I've been thinking of freshly grown herbs a lot recently. I think a hot weather herb garden will help lessen the pain of the heat quite a lot!
Great video I always have trouble with growing herbs thank you for the tips.much love and blessings.💖🐩🐩💖🐾🐾👍👍👍🧙🪴🪴🌹🌷🌒🌕🌘🕊🌈
I made the mistake one year of planting carrots in those peat pots. The carrots were short, fat, and tasted of moss as the pot never really dissolved. This year I've already gotten my herbs in pots. I want to make a window shelf to hang in front of my kitchen window so I can move the herbs inside. My whole front walk is flanked by mint. I love having it there. However, if it gets stepped on my entryway smells like breath mints. :) I decided this year I want to learn all about herbs and how to use them. My son says I'm going to be a herbologist. :) Do you have any suggestions for good sources to learn about the uses of herbs?
lovely video. so informative. I live in the mountains my backyard is a forest. tried growing herbs but only lemon balm survived. we have so much wildlife here. The deer tend to eat a lot of what I plant. if course we have black bears too. They mostly go through our garbage.
@7:15 -- make sure your soil is what?
Another lovely and relaxing video! 💗
Peat free! Peat is found in bogs and alot of the bogs and environments its in has been destroyed for garden compost. But also peat contains little to no nutrients for plants to grow. 💚💚💚
@@AlwynOak thanks so much for explaining. ☺️ I would have googled it but I wasn't quite sure what word you said in order to look it up. 😅 💙
I’m so excited to get my garden going again! By far how I feel most connected to my practice
Beautiful herb garden Alwyn! I so enjoy your inspiring lifestyle. Hyssop and Rosemary are excellent for your respiratory system. Hyssop tea is helpful when you have bronchitis or upper respiratory issues. Basil tea helps calm a cough. Coriander is not only a great herb to cook with but is also a natural diuretic which is great for our monthly menses when we are bloated and have too much water weight.
I love your voice its so calming and relaxing. Such a beautiful lady too. Love your videos and im pretty new to all the witchy stuff so everything helps. Thanks Alwyn😎
Hi hi 😊 Rosemary is my easiest herb to grow ( although I am in Australia) but I have taken cuttings placed them in water and put them on the kitchen window updating the water every so often ..
As long as they're kitty/familiar friendly I'll try em!
What a lovely and informative video, thank you Alwyn! I think I'll start a herb garden of my own!! 😊🌱
Thankyou so much my lovely!! It really is so rewarding and the options of crafting with herbs are endless!! 😀🌱💚🌲
This video was so inspiring to me and I want to create my own herb garden now. I only have rosemary, lavender and bayleaf) and they are doing grate. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
Some great info here....this may finally get me to do an herb garden...thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful video... Much love my sweet Alwyn ❤️🌿
Need this today. I'm in the middle of planting this year's herbs and vegetables. And some pollenators...
But I think my orchids are jealous.
I never have luck starting herbs 🌿 from seed. I even struggle with getting small plants to take hold. Most die come July with the sun 🌞 and heat being so strong. Everything gets burnt. When you can grow them, they are beautiful.
Love the relaxing video watching you planet the garden outside of your home and really do enjoy all the beautiful colors and flowers and planets hope u are enjoying the beautiful weather ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
A lovely video, full of knowledge. I have not tried to do a Herb garden. But, I think my soil is the wrong sort. So, perhaps an annual one.
I just learned this year that lavender likes the cold when germinating, so I have my seeds on a wet paper towel covered in a ziplock bag in the fridge for about 40 days! Not sure if it will work but it is still fun to experiment!!
So much information and inspiration! I can't wait to see your beautiful garden growing throughout the spring and summer. I love hyssop! It brings lots of bees! Blessed Bee!
Such a beautiful video and with so much wonderful information about the amazing benefits of plants. I love this!! Thank you!!🫂💕💙🍄🏡
Thank you for the comment about using peat-free soil
Every new video is me new favorite! I love this one.
I love this so much! Perfect timing, of course, as I want to get my seeds going, you are inspiring me with information and confidence. I really love your herb Book of Shadows ideas to keep track of each herb. A million thanks!
I’ve planted everything you had except mugwort (and many, many more lol). I’m very interested in seeing how you use the mugwort. I’m also nurturing a LOT of vegetables this year. Doing my best to go more plant based.
Lovely video....I've been a gardener since a small child and am very fortunate I have a reasonable sized garden to indulge myself - I grow the majority of herbs for my practice but also lots of veg, berries and fruit and loads of flowers.
Mugwort gets huge and it spreads, so keep that in mind, I've not grown it in a pot but in my garden I have to prune it several times a year.
Hyssop is one of my favs (anaise Hyssop is a particular favorite) - it's part of the mint family 😊
If you eat meat, meat trays make great drip trays and can last for years, great way to recycle and reuse, and cheap.
Lastly (cause I could go on all day about my fav subject) the easiest way to grow lavender and rosemary is to take soft wood cuttings, both are quite difficult to grow from seed.
Ohh thankyou SO much for your advice and knowledge it is so greatly appreciated! And thanks for the tips about the rosemary and lavender, i haven't grown them from seed before so we shall wait and see what happens there!!!
@@AlwynOak You are most welcome, I throughly enjoy your lovely channel x
Wonderful!! You have a great selection of herbs.. im the same with Rosemary, very hard to grow and Basil.. look forward to seeing how they progress, im setting mine tomorrow.. thank you for another great video 🥰❤🌱🌱
Great information and inspiration. Thank you for another wonderful post. Blessed be.
Last year I discovered " lippia citriodora" and I love it. I make herb tea with lippia,it is digestive and calming🥰
Oooo thankyou !!! I'll have to look into that! Love a calming herb 🌱🌲💚