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!

Hey Valkyrie,

one great herb to grow for magic purposes is White Sage (Salvia apiana). Nothing quite like a home grown smudge stick, and it's good medicinal to have on hand for colds/flus etc

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is another good one, historically it has been used for protection against bad spirits, it's used in moxabustion (TCM), and to increase dream recall and lucidity so helpful with astral travel.

there's other herbs good for dreaming also if interested in that kind of thing, such as the Mexican Dream Herb (Calea zacatechichi) used to contact ancestors and find lost objects.

i like to grow a lot for culinary and medicinal purposes, such as basil, oregano, parsley, mints, lemon balm, curry plant, chillis, garlic, herb robert, ashwagandha, sinuichi, cinnamon, ginkgo, etc.

i like to grow the solanaceae plants too which are heavily associated with magic and witchcraft, such as Brugmansia, Datura and Henbane. They have a really powerful presence in the garden, be very conscious of the toxicity though.

as far as online shops go i could only recommend one located in Australia but i'm sure there would be similar stores in the US too (edit: these guys do ship internationally though). They are mostly focused on plants associated with shamanism and healing:

Shaman Australis Botanicals -http://www.shaman-australis.com.au/Website/Shamanmainpageframeset.htm

hope this is of some help to you!

CosmicInferno

This post has been edited by CosmicInferno: Feb 13 2008, 10:07 PM