I recommend grabbing a notebook and pen to keep with you at all times. Label it “Garden Field Guide” to record observations and experiences while performing garden magic.

While I recommend keeping a garden, it isn’t necessary. All you really need is access to a garden.

Many public parks have butterfly gardens, and any patch of land growing flowers or vegetables can be used as a wild garden.

If you have a windowsill herb garden, a potted plant, or a terrarium, you have a garden setting. It just might be on a smaller scale, but full of magic!

While it’s helpful to practice gardening, it’s not necessary to get started. This enchanted article is about finding magic in garden environments. You can do that anywhere!

However, if you can, I highly recommend gardening for anyone interested. It’s therapeutic and has many health benefits!

If you want to delve deeper into learning about herbs, you might want to create an herbarium of your own! An herbarium includes plant monographs and places them into categories.

For example, plants, herbs, spices, mushrooms, roots, and weeds. Each plant profile includes magical and medicinal properties, as well as astrological correspondences.

The herbarium also takes into account the plant groups. This might include poisonous plants, kitchen herbs, and carnivorous plants.

I have an herbarium on my website you might enjoy looking at for ideas! You can keep one in a grimoire or online. Think about what feels right for you.

Garden magic involves planting with intention, creating garden altars, and connecting with fairies, gnomes, and animal familiars!

For garden magic, you might like to practice wildcrafting, foraging, and making forage-to-table foods! How cool would it be to prepare a forest meal or a meal made from vegetables in your garden?

It’s a wonderful way to forge a deep connection to Mother Nature, especially plant spirits!