Plants
Green practice
Magic that begins with knowing which plant you have, and ends with watering it.
Green practice in this library means working with plants you can name, grow, or buy as food, without pretending a correspondence table is a botany degree. The herb cabinet holds sixty-two entries because a public educational project already gathered that list. The essays there are ours. The rule is the same: symbolism is labeled, poison is labeled louder.
A practice, not a personality
You do not become a green witch by owning a basket. You become someone who notices soil, weather, and the difference between a culinary bay leaf and a lookalike you should not brew. If you have no garden, a pot of mint on a sill is a complete practice. If mint is invasive in your ground, keep it in the pot.
A week of green attention
- 1Day one: name every plant in your rooms. Look up the ones you cannot name before you use them.
- 2Day two: water only what is dry. Overwatering is the common sin.
- 3Day three: read one herb entry’s safety section.
- 4Day four: cook with one culinary herb you already own.
- 5Day five: walk outside and identify one tree without picking it.
- 6Day six: do the garden blessing if you have a living plant.
- 7Day seven: write what the plant actually did this week, not what the poem wanted.