Help With Herb Garden, advice Options

hey this is valkyrie, and its still early but i am planning my herb garden for next spring. i have quite a large store of herbs already, but im looking to increase my magical store so i need some advice.

is there a good wiccan/druid internet site or magazine where i can order starter plants from (there is little variety of herbs at the regular garden shops...)?
I get so frustrated having to ask...do you have this? do you have this? do you have this? and then the names are always different.

also, i don't have a large history with potions or magic with herbs so anyone who does...can you give me a list of your 10 most used herbs? mostly, i am interested in medical properties, but it is nice to expand on my magical interests as well.

Thanks!

You might want to look into the Findhorn Foundation.

Yes, you can cooperate in the garden. Begin by thinking about the nature spirits, the higher overlighting nature spirits, and tune into them. That will be so unusual as to draw their interest here. They will be overjoyed to find some members of the human race eager for their help.

They were able to grow record crops & such, I remember reading about it in one of those "Mysteries Of Nature" condensed books a while ago. I've had limited success in gardening with spirits' help; but the most difference has been my fish-tank plants, they seem to die like mayflies in the Sahara, yet ask for a little help and they almost instantly become healthy!
The only thing I'd recommend is to point out which plants are going to be totally consumed and which are just going to be harvested when communicating with the entities. Otherwise they don't seem to see it coming and the whole plot sorta wilts to varying degrees. Then again... it could just be my lack of a green thumb.


-Most Used-
Grown: mint, lavender, chives, rosemary, and red cabbage.
Bought: garlic, onions, ginger, cinnamon, thyme.

Why have herbs for spells that you can't make delicious food with as well? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif) You probably don't need a specialist wiccan/druid supplier, local places tend to have a lot of variety and can order things for you if you ask. They can also give out some good gardening tips from their personal experience. I tend to avoid corporations, as they have a bad habit hiring clueless people & making embarrassing recommendations from past purchases.
For plants that don't grow in your climate, you might need a basement (fungi) or greenhouse (tropical) area to simulate specific growing conditions. And growing things in your house is also a great excuse to turn up the heat when you have a certain someone who insists on arctic temperatures at all times, though if it raises your heating bill too high you can always buy a portable heater and put it in a large closet. Or, if your hot water heating system is in an accessible area, you could build shelves around it, most people seem content to just let all that radiant heat go to waste.

And that's all I can think of...

This post has been edited by SeekerVI: Feb 10 2008, 06:53 PM

i am rich in all but lavender and red cabbage...what does it do that you use cabbage for?

ive never heard of a spell that incorporates it?

love lavender...but it doesn't love me...keep planting it...but it utterly fails to grow

as for the corporations bit i do agree. they also tend to sell huge amounts of useless petunias and almost nothing else. arghhhhh! i have a family friend who sells me my plants...but she is downsizing because of a local plant store just put up (corporate owned) and she only concentrates on flowers. it is a shame to see her business shrinking; she had such a large and gorgeous variety once, and she is a good person who helps the elderly with her discount services.
the idea about the wiccan supplier...well, i just like supporting small companies like that. and ive worked with starter plants before and they work pretty darn well.