Lore and practice didn't seem to match up. It wasn't that the lore of plants was useless, but rather that it sometimes clashed with my own experience in the garden.
Mandrakes might drop dead at the slightest bit of unhappiness in other gardens in mine, they were tough and robust.
Zucchinis might overrun other people's gardens I was lucky if I got three or four. When I began gardening in the 1980s, I learned the difference between what was written about a plant-the lore-and how that plant would act in my own garden-the practice. No other book blends clear, practical gardening techniques with equally lucid and sophisticated plant magic so successfully. Roth is not only a successful gardener, but also a magician and scholar of the occult. The Witching Herbs is the essential plant-worker’s guide. Working directly with spirits is one of the fundamentals of the Craft.” Roth writes, “This book is a great choice for intermediate-to-advanced witches who would like to work more closely with the traditional witching herbs, especially the baneful plants with their rather difficult spirits. Each chapter focuses on one plant and includes information on its unique plant spirit familiar, clear how-to instructions for magical projects, and pragmatic information on growing and cultivating. It is unique in that it combines mysticism with practical instructions for growing each plant, based on Roth’s 30 years of gardening expertise. Roth writes simply and clearly on a vast amount of esoteric information that is not easily found elsewhere and will be greeted enthusiastically by those who already have extensive experience and libraries. The plants are poppy, clary sage, yarrow, rue, hyssop, vervain, mugwort, wormwood, datura, wild tobacco, henbane, belladonna, and mandrake. His new book, The Witching Herbs, is an in-depth exploration of 13 essential plants and herbs most closely associated with witchcraft-13 because it’s the witching number and reflects the 13 months of the lunar calendar.
Harold Roth is a leading authority on plant/herbal magic.
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