Botany for Witches

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

This is possibly my favourite geeky video ever. 💜

[@libertyobw]

This video is fantastic and would love to see more like it. Botany = ❤️

[@KrisLeake]

I would like more like this. A series would be great. Thank you for sharing with us

[@pigeon4x250]

This was a great video and I’d love it if you did more like this!

[@wickedcarnation]

I really think most witches would benefit from studying plants further. I really enjoyed this! It seems like a great entry point and I would love it if you made more videos like this in the future! I think you bring a great perspective into the community.

[@TheOakWitch]

Thank you!

[@theslavicpagan]

I completely agree as well! I feel as though it’s the basic fundamentals behind most practices!

[@clairetimbrell8905]

Wow, I'm studying horticulture and this video has really helped. Thank you. Keep up your hard work. 🎉

[@WitchSpiritTarot]

Thank you! I think this was a great video! Without your videos I wouldn't have known about these types of books! 🙂

[@raniafowler4599]

Favorite grasses I grow here in NE Ohio, USA - little bluestem, prairie dropseed, bottle brush grass, and sweet grass. Thanks for this video!

[@TheOakWitch]

Thank you for sharing!! Bottlebrush grass looks so cool!

[@iainmelville9411]

This is just what I’m after, it’s what I’m interested in and I believe it’s an important factor in witchcraft - I’m a city person and not a country person, I see myself as being poorer for it. Loved ( absolutely this loved ) this post, more please. I also love nerds, their passionate people, and often fun people - just saying. Thank You so much for this video - I’ll say it again - more please. Much love and many, many Blessings,❤,😊.

[@Nevermore101]

This is great info thanks! After I started learning to forage I developed a hobbiest interest in botany (plant identification and taxonomy is neat). But most online botany resources go from 0 to a 100 really fast. Good to know where to start!

[@TheOakWitch]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bobojangles]

Your intuition is spot on! I feel the study of plants is an important element of our well-being, across the board....AND a ton of fun to study. Took a few semesters of horticulture/botany back in my early education. I find my heart was there all along. I wish I would have gone deeper in my studies when I was your age. Very very rewarding. EXCELLENT TOPIC. 🤓📚

[@bobojangles]

PS....Thank you for the book recommendations.

[@VerdantSpirit]

Love this! More botany videos please! Nothing boring about plants. If people knew how interesting they are they might pay more attention to them :) I'm a week into my foundation year, leading on to a degree in Woodland Ecology. So this is perfect timing. My level 2 in forestry and arboriculture last year, only used field guides. The Collins ones are great. I have the trees, fungi, and pests and diseases ones. I'll definitely be investing in the botanical keys this year to step up a level. I literally rocked up to Uni with 120 books. Which are now crammed into my student accommodation. Everyone thought it was overkill until they discovered that all the botany books are kept at another campus and have to be specially ordered and sent over with a week or two's notice. Meanwhile i have everything i need within arms reach. 😆

[@TheOakWitch]

Awesome! Good for you that you're all prepped!! You can never have too many books 😁

[@entolomaviridomarginatum8549]

Yessssss!!! More of this please Ari. Wonderful video. Haha I could talk plants all day too! Yorkshire Fog is a lovely grass, sadly a weed here in Australia, but nonetheless it is a pretty one. Kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra) would probably be my favourite grass :) I think the pictorial flora guides are a good stepping stone for people, then as their curiosity grows, they may naturally gravitate towards the keys. Keys can be a bit daunting if you haven't established some botanical vocabulary first.

[@TheOakWitch]

Kangaroo grass looks fantastic!

[@LetteMoonlitPath]

I am so ready for this 🦋🌳🙏🍄 thank you for sharing your wisdom.

[@BitOfAWanderer]

i think this is my favorite video ive seen of yours so far. i'll be referencing this video often and hope to see more

[@activistwitch]

Greenery is my favourite bit in Witchcraft!!! I just started playing a d&d character that's a herbalist and in every conversation they have they are you when you talk about grass and I was so excited to hear it and tell raven omg I'm playing Ari!!! 😅 Edit: I SCREAMED when you pulled out the mugwort and I thought it was mugwort before you said it and then you said it and AAAÀAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAÀ **joyful scream**

[@Ekanos]

❤love to see you thereeeee!! It's so cool to always find you encouraging others 😊 also #WitchesforPalestine !!!

[@activistwitch]

@@Ekanos I'm a fangirl at heart 😉 🍉🍉🍉✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@Ekanos]

@@activistwitch yeeee! Me too lol/pos 🍉🍉🍉 (FREE PALESTINE!)

[@TheOakWitch]

Hahah appreciate you Ysha 🤍

[@GwydionGrey]

I never once before considered grasses and magick going together, and I certainly wasn't expecting to learn so much about them, either! You have such beautiful grasses natively in England, I had no idea! It actually inspires me to learn more about my own local grasses here in Minnesota.

[@dontnoable]

Ah! So a key is not like a key on a map!

[@echozines]

Thank you so much for this video! As an aspiring botanist I found it super interesting!

[@theslavicpagan]

love this so much!

[@sandyblack9698]

Samain blessings my dear .x📚🐛

[@sandyblack9698]

Imbolc blessings ❤📚🐛

[@joutavainen2920]

i usually start to notice grasses in late summer, because they´re so tall, but also when the flowers release me from their enchantment :) this summer i noticed that if it´s a long and warm summer some of the southern flowers (like lupins) come in bloom for a second time! the real northern flowers are like fuck no, we know what´s coming :) i've noticed the same with trees before, like willows start to get those white soft things during long and warm autumns. it´s almost as if the winter time is not needed, for plants, they´re ready to go again.. me too, i don´t need rest, let´s go! (oh no sun, maybe not then, it´s not even right to pick up rocks anymore, because they´re so cold, and also wet from the rain, you can´t even get the colours right, did you know that black stones become grey when they dry out, it´s true) i got so into rocks this summer that i started to develop my own sayings.. oh that´s as hard to find as an unbroken red stone :)

[@JoseLopez-wf6bx]

Come to the Lord Jesus our savior