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Summary: Great, Buy It!
Review: I just love this book. It has tons of info on when/where to plant along with why and how. She lists planterary info so you can plant by the Moon and Planets and on what days of the week. I like her sense of humor and the tone of her book. This has been a book I've just been able to sit down and read for an hour or more at a time and still want more. This book was well worth the price and I am very happy I bought it!!!
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Summary: Pretty well done
Review: I like this book, it gives tons of information and is very well written. I can't give it 5 stars because it lacks enough garden plans. I happen to LIKE garden plans!
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Summary: Good variety
Review: I liked this book alot. It had a good amount of information on many different subjects. Had some nice craft ideas and garden layouts. I like all the references for different plant/herb/flower uses. Good for the casual or advanced gardener. Also the listing of poisionous plants was very usefull, alot of the plants I like are poisonous that I wasnt aware of so I know to plant them where my kids aren't likely to get into them.
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Summary: yay!
Review: I love this book. Ellen Dugan is funny, down-to-earth, and no-nonsense. She's so charming and informative that it's easy to forgive her unabashed adoration of knick-knacks and over-the-top holiday decorations. A real treat for a kindred garden witch. Thanks and write some more books please!
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Summary: Pesticides and Chemicals in the Wiccan garden??
Review: I was very excited when I found this book. Gardening and Wicca - what could be better!?! Obviously, quite a bit could be better. I was very, very disappointed and quite honestly very disturbed that a self-proclaimed practicing witch condones the use of pesticides and chemicals. Excuse me, but what happened to "HARM NONE"? Anyone with an elementary knowledge of nature knows that any chemicals and pesticides used in the garden kill bees (an extremely vital link in our ecological chain), not to mention other beneficial insects. After one season of being plagued with squash beetles, she gave up and used chemicals!?!? What does that teach anyone? If you truly want to be in balance with nature, you must be a purist or at the very least practicing organic methods (beware some organic products harm bees too). There are ways to save your crops and not damage the environment. The great wise women and men of old didn't have Miracle-Gro and bug spray. Please. They learned to live in balance with nature and let nature help them.
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Summary: Pesticides and Chemicals in the Wiccan garden??
Review: I was very excited when I found this book. Gardening and Wicca - what could be better!?! Obviously, quite a bit could be better. I was very, very disappointed and quite honestly very disturbed that a self-proclaimed practicing witch condones the use of pesticides and chemicals. Excuse me, but what happened to "HARM NONE"? Anyone with an elementary knowledge of nature knows that any chemicals and pesticides used in the garden kill bees (an extremely vital link in our ecological chain), not to mention other beneficial insects. After one season of being plagued with squash beetles, she gave up and used chemicals!?!? What does that teach anyone? If you truly want to be in balance with nature, you must be a purist or at the very least practicing organic methods (beware some organic products harm bees too). There are ways to save your crops and not damage the environment. The great wise women and men of old didn't have Miracle-Gro and bug spray. Please. They learned to live in balance with nature and let nature help them.
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Summary: Garden Witchery At Its Best!
Review: If you come across an old spell calling for bat wings...what is it really asking for? If you don't know, then this book is for you!Garden Witchery is a jewel! I would recommend it to any pagan who loves nature and is drawn to digging in the dirt. It is practical and full of useful information. Especially meaningful to me is the way it explains how to design your sacred garden space and what planting material to consider. I especially enjoyed the careful way the author tied together how to use magical plants in the proper phase of the moon, as well as the most opportune day of the week in order to enhance success. This book is enjoyable to read. The author's warm and friendly writing style and the glimpses she provides into her magical home life, makes for a fun, relaxing reading experience. Garden Witchery definately rates a place of honor in my magical reference library.
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Summary: Garden Witchery At Its Best!
Review: If you come across an old spell calling for bat wings...what is it really asking for? If you don't know, then this book is for you! Garden Witchery is a jewel! I would recommend it to any pagan who loves nature and is drawn to digging in the dirt. It is practical and full of useful information. Especially meaningful to me is the way it explains how to design your sacred garden space and what planting material to consider. I especially enjoyed the careful way the author tied together how to use magical plants in the proper phase of the moon, as well as the most opportune day of the week in order to enhance success. This book is enjoyable to read. The author's warm and friendly writing style and the glimpses she provides into her magical home life, makes for a fun, relaxing reading experience. Garden Witchery definately rates a place of honor in my magical reference library.
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Summary: WELL, THE COVER IS NICE....
Review: Sorry, but I disagree with all the other reviewers here. I really wanted to like this book, as I am a pagan who incorporates my gardens into my spells and rituals. I really didn't want to write a scathing review, since I would like to be able to support other pagans out there. But there is just nothing good I can say about this book. It's written as if it's for a ten-year old. I should have known it would be, as Llewellyn always "dumbs down" their books for their readers. Too much information would be over our heads, is that what they are thinking?
This book is the classic Llewellyn throw-away: they put in the usual gem/elemental/days of the week corespondences that EVERY book has. Gee, thanks for telling me that rosemary is for remembering-AGAIN! This basic, ubiquitous formula really gets on my nerves because every book is exactly alike & every book is a feel-good, fuzzy-buuny way of making the reader think they are a witch just because they read the book. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Anyway, there is really NO useful information in here at all, unless you are a garden wanna-be and you just want to talk about having a garden but not really have one. There is so little info in here, that I couldn't even recommend this book to the most ignorant beginner. The author writes in the most annoying style: "I'll just bet you were going to ask me that..." I felt like I was watching Romper Room again. Sorry to be so mean, but I honestly feel that this book is worthless, and is a disservice to those of us out there who are looking for a real author to write a real book about garden witchery. Don't hold your breath for this one. No more Llewellyn books for me....
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Summary: Very cool book!
Review: They say life began in a garden and so it did for me one day - I love gardening so much and to find a book like this pulls together a number of things I love to leartn about and play with. One of the things I love about this book is that its such a fun, easy read. There are quotes from the likes of Milton, Seton, Shakespeare, Wolfe, and lots of authors I'm not familiar with but who came up with some really neat lines. There's a section on moon gardening - something I've been planning to do and bought some additional books on. There's flower folklore which is always fun. There's a section on celebrations for the seasons, as well as a section on crafts (like making dream pillows, charm bags, etc.) For those new to gardening there are zone mapstips on planting certain plants (like trees), lists of magical plants & trees, flowers of the month (e.g. January is the month of the carnation - bestows energy & healing). Its just a really full, fun book that captivated me and inspire me to get rid-of more of the lawn and plant more gardens (using native plants of course :)
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