Pagan Gardening

[coffeemoments]

Originally Posted by CatwomanofV

Nice shots. I love the little fairy. I could post another pic of my "fairies." They are my grandkids that I photoshopped to turn them into fairies for a book I wrote called "A Fairy Story" and a sequel.



Cat

Thank you Cat Sure! Would like to see your pic. You wrote a book about Fairies too?

[CatwomanofV]

Originally Posted by coffeemoments

hehe about your Mom's rose bushes except you had to do all the work, lol. Yep, thats morning glories alright! They can reseed themselves, even years later a seed in the ground can sprout. Thats really sad that your Mom wound up having to pull the rose bushes out because of them --love roses too. Guess they are the kind of flower that really have to be planted far from other flowers so they don't overrun everything.

My mother didn't plant the morning glories. They were already there when she bought the house. And they were EVERYWHERE.

Originally Posted by coffeemoments

Thank you Cat Sure! Would like to see your pic. You wrote a book about Fairies too?

I wrote TWO fairy books. When I wrote the first book, I KNEW it needed illustrations but I don't draw. I asked a few people who did but I really couldn't pay them for their work. I then realized that I could do it myself but with pics rather than drawings. So, I photoshopped the kids. I did a lot of pics-a few individual pics of each of the kids but these are the some of the pics I have all of them in.

This one was from the first book:





This is from the second book:





You can see how the kids grew and we added to the clan. I took ALL the pics-the backgrounds, the wings (from butterflies pics) and of course the kids. The last one they posed for me knowing they were going to be fairies. The first one they didn't know.

Side note: I did another book for them called "Finding Yourself" which I am very proud of. I had some of my pics with their pics hidden somewhere in it. There were hidden in pics of Mount Rushmore, The Grand Canyon, even on the moon. Again, I didn't mean to turn this garden through into my photo thread.


Cat

[coffeemoments]

Originally Posted by CatwomanofV

My mother didn't plant the morning glories. They were already there when she bought the house. And they were EVERYWHERE.



I wrote TWO fairy books. When I wrote the first book, I KNEW it needed illustrations but I don't draw. I asked a few people who did but I really couldn't pay them for their work. I then realized that I could do it myself but with pics rather than drawings. So, I photoshopped the kids. I did a lot of pics-a few individual pics of each of the kids but these are the some of the pics I have all of them in.

This one was from the first book:





This is from the second book:





You can see how the kids grew and we added to the clan. I took ALL the pics-the backgrounds, the wings (from butterflies pics) and of course the kids. The last one they posed for me knowing they were going to be fairies. The first one they didn't know.

Side note: I did another book for them called "Finding Yourself" which I am very proud of. I had some of my pics with their pics hidden somewhere in it. There were hidden in pics of Mount Rushmore, The Grand Canyon, even on the moon. Again, I didn't mean to turn this garden through into my photo thread.


Cat

Those are great Cat!!! You have a large family. Bet they will treasure their books always. They can pass them down to their own children. You're very talented. All the pics you are posting have to do with Pagan Gardening. Insects are important to the garden and many of us like Faeries, some of us going so far as to reserve a place for them in our gardens. So no worries

[CatwomanofV]

Originally Posted by coffeemoments

Those are great Cat!!! You have a large family. Bet they will treasure their books always. They can pass them down to their own children. You're very talented. All the pics you are posting have to do with Pagan Gardening. Insects are important to the garden and many of us like Faeries, some of us going so far as to reserve a place for them in our gardens. So no worries

Thank you. It is cool to have 8 grandkids when I never had any kids of my own. I THINK the kids like the books but I haven't gotten too much feedback from them. I know the younger ones are really too young but the older ones requested the sequel.


Cat

[Cliffie]

I don't know if it's specifically a Pagan thing but I make an effort to incorporate as many native plants in my landscape as possible. If I have a choice between dead nettle or Canadian ginger to use as a shady groundcover, I'm going with the ginger. Most of the foreign plants, like my Kenyan stapelias and Amazonian begonias, are inside in pots. Of course I grow catnip for the kittehs and keep scoping for a good place to plant a yellow apple tree -- even native crabapples come in yellow, which is the closest we Discordians can come to the golden kind. I keep trying to raise okra, whose pods slice into little pentagons. The Stapelia flowers at least are just about universally pentagonal.