Plants for a spirit garden

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Dearest AODA folks,

As autumn comes to close and winter chill inches forward I cannot help but think of spring - of starting seeds and dreams of new green leaves even as it rains the last bits of orange.

I usually have some containers by my main/side door and I have been thinking that in addition to my usual Basil and Rosemary that I want to try growing Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) since it is quite aggressive so container growing would be ideal. It struck me it might be fun to have my main door containers filled with herbs and plants loved by the spirits such as Vervain (Verbena officinalis). What wondrous herbs do you find our less visible friends like?

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Perhaps a little adjacent to your inquiry, but it’s how I relate to it, I love to grow lots and lots of Parsley because it is food for the Black Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillars. I like to think of butterflies as fae, so planting host foods invites them in, as well as feeds me too.

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I love seeing the swallowtail butterfly caterpillars on parsley, dill, fennel, and other plants in that family!

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My dill gets ate up like crazy! I quadruple plant dill now because the black swallow tail caterpillars eat it up.

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