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How to Plant a Goddess Garden

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Planting for the Divine
How to Plant a Goddess Garden

Select bright flowers to honor a spring goddess, or choose darker themes to celebrate a goddess of the harvest.

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Your next step should be to determine what sort of plants are associated with the goddess you're honoring. Think of this garden as a sort of living altar space, and plan accordingly. For example, if your garden is to pay tribute to Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, you might fill the space with seeds for vibrant and colorful carnations, hollyhocks, snapdragons and impatiens. A garden for Bast, the Egyptian cat goddess, might include catnip, members of the mint family, lavender, and lilies (for their playful, cat-like energy). If you choose to honor a goddess of the harvest, you might wish to plant fall-blooming plants, like mums or even root vegetables.

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