My Witchcraft Garden Plans: Plants, Ritual Spots & Natural Altars 🌱

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Hi, my name is Benta. I’m the Norris witch. And as you may know, roughly half a year ago, I bought a house or me and my fiance, we bought a house and we moved here. And our house has quite the big garden. And apparently my patrons and YouTube members are very interested in what our plans are for the garden. Both just mundane garden plans, I guess, as well as my more witchcraft and heathenry specific plans. So, they requested that I talk in a video about my plans or our plans for our big big garden that I at one point showed I think in a vlog or something. If you are also interested in influencing what I post on here, then you can check out my Patreon or my YouTube membership. And yeah, without further ado, let me tell you about the garden plans. [Music] Okay. So, first of all, the current situation. We moved here in April. It is now November. And we had decided that for the first year, we would be focusing on the inside of the house because we have to renovate the entire house. So, of course, this is a lot of work and we’re just doing that alongside work and everything else. So, we have very limited time. Let’s just say it like that. And a big garden that still needs a lot of love and we haven’t done a lot in the garden yet. What we have done is that we have uh constructed a little compost. A little it’s actually quite the big compost and that’s coming along nicely. If you know anything about Germany is that we love rules. So, one of the rules is I think from I don’t even know is it April, March or something until October, you are not allowed to do any bigger cutting away on like trees and bushes because birds could be nesting in there and they need to be protected, which agreed. Because of that, we weren’t really able to cut anything back. And the thing is that this garden is extremely grown in. Before we bought the house, it had been empty for like 1 and 1/2 years from what we have heard from our neighbors. So, apart from a little bit of mowing the lawn, which a neighbor had done in those 1 and 1/2 years, nothing had been touched in that garden. There were just some plants that had completely exploded. And we also have like shipping containers, like huge ship containers from container ships in the garden, like five, I think. think I think three small ones and then two full-sized ones that the previous owners used to like store stuff. I don’t know. But we have these containers just sitting in the garden. They really need to go. They take up a lot of space. So, we still have to get rid of a lot of stuff. We have just now or let’s say my fiance has just like a couple of weeks ago started to at least cut back some of the bushes and some of the trees because there’s just a lot of invasive and non-native plants that are in this garden. They are these typical decor plants, fast growing ugly decor plants that were often grown in gardens. So like tree of life and like I don’t even know what that other plant is called, but we had this like huge bush that’s also like toxic. And that grew so huge that when my fiance and a friend of his, they cut it down just recently. Inside the bush, they found a children’s swing in the bush. Like the bush must have grown so hardcore that it just completely grew around a swing. And nobody knew that there was a swing in that bush. So you see how grown in this garden is. Before we can add anything, we have to basically clear a lot of the plants. Not all of them, but we want to first of all get rid of a lot of the plants. All of those like non-native, invasive, toxic plants that just don’t belong here. like there is just so many plants that wouldn’t naturally grow here. And what we want to achieve is that we want a really like naturesque garden that is just very very environmentally friendly because of course we also have animals living here. Like we already saw quite a lot of hedgehogs. We have squirrels living here. A lot of birds. Um I haven’t seen like any deer or anything yet in the garden, but who knows? I don’t know. But it’s currently fenced off on all sides apart from up to the street. So there is no way deer could get into the garden right now. But I would like to also get rid of some of those fences. Yeah, you get the point. We have to get rid of a lot of what’s currently here so that we can add what we want to add. And first of all, so that we just have a little bit of space because it’s just all so grown in that there’s just no space to do anything with like all of the grown-in plants and then also the shipping container containers and everything. It’s very obvious that that garden has never really been used. Like it seems like it was just there and it was maybe used for children to play, for example, with the swing and maybe to have a barbecue every now and then, but apart from that, it doesn’t really seem like the garden was very much used. And we really want to use the garden. For example, we want to grow a lot of food, like a lot of fruits and vegetables. We want have we want to have a lot of fruit trees, a big greenhouse. That’s a very very important one. We also want to have ducks like we have a lot of problems here with slugs and ducks are the perfect natural slug control. So we want to have ducks. So we also have to have a little pond for example. Um, I would personally really like to have like a little shed situation that can be kind of used like a little a little hideaway like just right in the back of the garden somewhere where you can go where you don’t have any Wi-Fi where you just like can go and read and be away from people and from the internet and maybe like paint there or something like a little atalier space that would be amazing just like a little space like that. But of course for all of that we need a lot of space. I guess until next year will just be a lot of cutting down trees and bushes and stuff. Doing a lot of work around that. But all of the native plants they will stay. Like we have for example a lot of birch trees. They will for sure stay. We have a lot of willow trees. They will for sure stay. We have an ash tree. Uh we have elm trees. Do roses. We have a lot of bramble. We have to cut it back a little bit because there’s just too much. But we have bramble that will stay. We have an elder tree, an apple tree. Like all of those, they will all stay where they are. But apart from that, all of the non-native plants, they had to go. I’m actually already quite happy because we had this huge tree of life in front of the house that literally grew in front of our guest room window so much that there was no natural light coming in. The window was completely blocked and you couldn’t open the window because you would have just had a room full of spiders had you opened that window. And we already got rid of that tree now. So now the guest room is nice and bright and has has a lot of natural light now. It’s actually quite nice. Previously it was a cave, but now it’s very nice and bright in that room. We already got rid of like some decorational bushes that we had in front of the house where instead of that in that space we really want just like a lot of like flowers and there’s also this cast iron growing construction. I think it’s supposed to be for roses. So we would really like to have some roses in front of the house that are just growing up. Um, I really like plants that grow on the house, but the issue is a lot of them are either pretty bad for just the house because the roots are like growing inside cracks and then growing big and then they’re basically spreading the cracks and yeah, leading to to a lot of issues with the house. So, that’s not possible sadly. I would have loved a wisteria, but wisteria also isn’t native here and it’s also very very toxic. So, not the best idea if you have cats that are supposed to go outside once they are settled. Um, so we’re settling for some kind of native roses that can grow up where the bushes were, but we also want to plant a lot of flowers there. We already set up a little bit like right here in front of the window. We had this, it was just a patch of grass, just like unused patch of grass like right in front of the house, right next to the street. And in June or something, we decided to just spontaneously create a wild flower patch there. So now we have a little wildflower field. We will see which plants survive the winter because not all of them are like multi-year plants. I don’t know how they are called. Some of them will come back next year, some won’t. And I’m excited to see which ones will come through because this year was just like a lot of poppy and they held up pretty amazingly long. So, I’m guessing that maybe there will be a lot of poppy next year as well, but there are a lot of native flowers that are great for like bees and other pollinators and insects. That’s great. We will see how much we have to reso next year. Oh, yeah. Right. We have right in the center of our huge garden, we have this area that is kind of it’s a little bit strange because I think it was supposed to be like a barbecue area or something like that because it’s this round circular area that is a little bit lowered like it it’s kind of a level lower than the rest of the garden and there were a lot of plants growing around it. That huge bush that I mentioned was also one of those that were kind of around this area so that you can’t look into it. We want to definitely keep that because that will be really really cool. If we put like a big fire pit in the middle and then we can either like barbecue there or I can also perform rituals there for example, perform my bloat there. That would be amazing. And the space is so big that I could easily perform bloats with like up to 10 people. I think I guess that at least 10 people would have enough space to gather around a fire there. So that will be really cool. We really want to keep that. But we will get rid of a lot of the plants around it because again they’re all non-native. Some of them are invasive. A lot of them are very toxic. There will be a lot of plants removed around that space but replaced by other types of native kinds of bushes. For example, we just recently got a couple of current bushes from my fiance’s dad. So, his parents also have a big garden and they’re growing a lot of food and they have a lot of plants that they’re just like constantly giving us. Like we already got a pear tree from them and a little rhubarb plant. And yeah, now we got some current bushes and they will probably be incorporated into the bush structure around that fire pit area. So that would be really really cool. I would also really love to build something like I don’t know would it be called a K or something like a a stone altar situation like an outside stone altar of some kind. I would love to have that kind of area near the birch trees, but the problem is they are right next to the street and right next to a walkway, so there are always people coming by. So, I’m not necessarily happy about that. I want to put it somewhere in the back of the garden because behind our house, there is nothing like there’s just a little natural biotope area. So, nobody lives behind our house. So everything that I want to do like ritual and magic wise in the garden, I want to do it in the back of the garden so that I don’t constantly have to think about people hearing me when I chant or something. So I would really like to build some kind of outside stone altar where I can go and do some rituals, give offerings to the lance birds, for example. I would love to use it specifically as an altar for the lance birds, but also just perform other bloat there because I don’t really have a deity altar anymore. And right now whenever I perform a bloat or something, I just do it outside somewhere, I just look for a space. I would love to have some kind of like stone altar situation. That would be really cool. And of course, I also really want to just grow a lot of magical herbs. Of course, like a lot of native herbs. Again, I’m not really happy about growing non-native herbs, and I don’t really use a lot of non-native plants in my practice anymore. So I just want like a big like witchy herb garden somewhere where I can grow a lot of local native herbs. So something like mugwart and yarao and oh angelica would be great. Meadow sweet like some also that used to be native around here but because there’s not a lot of natural wild spaces anymore they were kind of pushed out. So, Angelica, for example, used to be native here, but you don’t really see it a lot anymore because there’s just nowhere for it to grow. Same with meadow sweet. So, plants like that I would like to incorporate into my herb garden. And I would love that to have a layout where it’s kind of like a little bit fenced off, like a fenced off square or something. And then you can walk in and then you have a little circular path and then in the middle you have an area with herbs and then outside you have an area with herbs in a way that I could like walk around it. maybe have a little bench to sit in there or something whenever I want to do some work with the herbs. That would be amazing. But again, we’re not quite sure about the layout yet. So, I don’t know where it would make sense to put that. Oh, and then something else. I was already talking about not really wanting toxic plants in the garden. Yes, that is true, but I want to have a little protected area where I can grow toxic plants because I love a lot of toxic plants. I love a good fox glove. I love a good bittersweet night shade, for example. I would love to be able to grow them in the garden, but I would need an area that is protected from the cats where the cats can’t reach. So, some of some of our cats are sometimes biting a plant here or there, and usually with my inside plants, that’s not an issue, like nothing happens. But if I have like something like bittersweet nightshade or fox glove or something, I would not want them to eat them accidentally because that would actually be very very dangerous for them. So, I will definitely have to build some kind of structure, maybe a net around it or just something so that I have like a little area where I can grow toxic plants in a way that they are not dangerous for any animals because there are a lot of cats around here. And I guess the outside cats, the strays, there are a lot of strays here. I guess they’re used to it. And I guess they’re not just eating plants willy-nilly, but our cats are dumb and stupid. So, I’m not quite sure how they will react outside to the outside plants. So, I just want to make sure that nothing happens to them. But now, because I know some people will be very very interested in hearing what kinds of plants I want to grow. I already talked about some of them and I’m I don’t have a 100% specific list yet on what kinds of plants I want to grow, but let me just go through the ones that I could think of from the top of my head. So, very very important. Magwart, very important. It does grow around here, but not as abundantly as it actually did in the city where from where I moved. So, that’s interesting. Um, but I definitely want mugwart because I love mugwart. It’s one of my favorite and most important plant allies. Then I really want to grow warm wood because it is native here and I would really like to do more work with it, but I haven’t encountered it yet anywhere. So I really want to grow that. Then chamomile, very important, also very very abundant around here. So that should be easy. Uh yo, as I already said, Angelica ladies mantle, also one I’m extremely excited about. I’ve never seen it grow wild anywhere. I only had found it in a park near the flat that I used to live in. But of course, in a park when someone had intentionally grown it there, I will not forage there. So, I was never able to forage wild ladies mantle, but I know it is native here, so I really want to grow that. Then, meadowed, as I said, I would love to grow some mint. Of course, I will have to make sure that it doesn’t spread everywhere, but it is native. We have native mint, so that’s fine. Um, then I would really love to grow hops. I haven’t encountered it here anywhere, but in the city where I used to live, hops grew everywhere, just like up fences and anything. So, there was a lot of hops there. I kind of miss it. So, I really want to grow that. Also amazing for tea. St. John’s wart. Same here. I have seen it grow wild here, but not too abundantly in Hamburg. It was pretty abundant, so kind of miss that. also just an amazing solar happy plant. So, I really want to grow that. Um, same with colandula poppy. As I said, we already have it in this wildflower area, but this year I was just like kind of enjoying seeing it be there and be enjoyed by the insects. But next year, I will probably also harvest some of the poppy. Uh, as I said, fox glove, bittersweet nightshade, those two are probably my favorite toxic plants. and especially bittersweet nightshade I’m just very interested in. I only saw it in Hamburg in two little spaces that were very very public. They were just growing on random bushes. So gathering it there wasn’t that easy and I couldn’t sit there and meditate with it for example because it was literally on the street. I’m excited about growing it and being able to connect with it better. And then maybe some nettle. We have it growing around here everywhere so I wouldn’t necessarily have to grow it but maybe we will see. Um, and then two trees that I would love to grow. I’m pretty happy already with the trees that are growing here in the garden because again we have birch trees like right next to us is an oak tree. So, it grows into our garden, but sadly it’s not on our property. That’s very sad. Um, but we have willow trees, we have an ash tree, an apple tree. So, we already have a lot of amazing trees, an elder tree. Um, but I would love to grow a Rowan tree. We will sadly have to get rid of the juniper and we won’t be able to grow a juniper tree, which is very sad for me. But like I learned that the pollen from juniper trees doesn’t get along with pear trees. So if you have a juniper bush somewhere on your property and you grow a pear tree, the pear tree will get sick and will never grow pears. That’s not nice. So sadly, we will have to get rid of the juniper bush that we already have. But I really want the Roman tree. I would love a pine tree. I’m I really love pine trees and they are also native here but they are not growing on our property and then maybe grow an oak tree or just we like we have some tiny little baby oak trees in our garden that came from the neighbors huge oak tree of course but they’re still very tiny so we will have to probably put them somewhere else because they’re like right next to a building and if they grow big that could be a problem but I would love to have an oak tree on the property. So maybe we will just move one of those babies and let that grow big. That would be amazing as well. All right, my camera just cut me off and let me know that I had been recording for too long. 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