My garden has continued to evolve, partly guided by my intuitive planting and partly due to natural self-seeding which I love because I am continually surprised by what pops up and where.
It is spring now and I have swathes of primroses, mostly the wild sort in shades of sunshine yellow.

Wild Primrose.

Mimicking the first rays of the spring sunshine
as it warms the earth,
bringing forth new life,
new growth,
we cast our soft golden light,
deep within you,
onto the seeds of your ideas,
formed during your winter slumber,
causing them to stir,
igniting the spark of creativity,
reminding you
where true fulfilment lies.

Pulmonaria or more commonly called lungwort (the name giving a clue to the medicine they carry) is also gently self-seeding around the shadier parts of the garden and I love their spotty leaves and jewel-coloured tiny flowers. I watch with immense satisfaction as the newly awakened bees and other early pollinators take nectar from them and they will soon be followed by swathes of dandelions which are also nectar rich feeding stations as well as the heavenly blue of Forget me nots.

The broom last year was amazing, cloaked in a dense profusion of white flowers and alive with bees. In days gone by, Broom was used to make broom sticks and there is a theory that witches were depicted flying on them due to ingesting a component of Broom that is hallucinatory. However Broom has shared with me that because Broom was used by the healers/medicine women to sweep bad and stagnant energy out of a home, Christianity came up with this myth to frighten people away from the old pagan ways.

Foxgloves graced my garden last year in various shades of pink and white, again adored by bees. They wish to wake us up to the existence of the ‘old magic’ of mother earth and nature. As our love of nature deepens and the importance of tending to the land with more reverence becomes crucial, old magic opens us up to a different dimension of nature, where truth and beauty resides and can be re-awakened within us. We can become re-enchanted once more to all of nature and to how we choose to live our lives and we can reawaken our inner magical child that has always known magic exists.
Foxglove explains that the description old magic refers to olden times when people would be still enough and slip into this dimension, seeing faeries and nature spirits more commonly (lack of technology helped!). Those that were naturally inclined to this state of awareness were said to be seers, possessing faery sight. In those times gone by, faeries and nature spirits were respected and offerings were made to them. The places where they resided in the landscape , including the faery portals were left well alone and often marked in some way, such as with cairns and shrines. Often stories were told by the fireside passing on the whereabouts of these special places in the landscape.

The fae have an intimate connection to old magic and we can relearn this with their help and foxglove medicine by spending quiet time in nature, especially near places where faeries have been sited and also by calling on the spirit of foxglove to help shift your perception.
One of my earliest memories as a child was of a wildflower meadow. The imagery has never left me, and I had a deep realisation that I have been trying to get back to that wildflower meadow for my whole life. Teasing this memory apart the emotions I felt then were awe and wonder – it just felt so magical. A lot of my garden is more meadow like with swathes of oxeye daisies, knapweed and poppies and so called ‘weeds’, flourish around the edges. I feel a deep sense of peace and expansion when I am in my garden and I feel free, which is something I lacked in my difficult childhood.

I created this enchanted garden because of the book that I wrote – to commune with a deeper reality of nature, but I have realised more recently that it represents a coming home to the magical child within. It’s a place where my inner child feels nourished and can express herself with the plants that she chooses to grow and the wildlife she observes.
Nature does not judge me, and my inner child needs the freedom to be herself, to revel in beauty and magic – these needs are met in my garden.
My Judas tree flowered for the first time last year and even developed some seed pods which I have planted. They have yet to germinate but I am ever the optimist.

I planted several roses in the winter of 2023 and by far the best has been an old variety called Rosa Mundi which I have underplanted with Alchemilla Mollis, inspired by a book by Carol Klein called ’Wild flowers – Nature’s own garden crown’. If this rose were to be represented by an ice cream, it would surely be a raspberry ripple! It thrives in poor soil and was covered in blooms all summer long.

The eryngium St Wilmots Ghost that I grew from seed were spectacular and I often caught bees having a nap in them and the variety Blue glitter was incredibly striking too.

I found the most spectacular looking caterpillar in the autumn – an Elephant hawk moth caterpillar and realised it was feeding on the so-called weed, rosebay willowherb some of which I had been pulling up as it was prolific. I shall leave it well alone this year!

Some new plants I have added to the garden last year were :-
lawn chamomile planted around wooden stepping stones leading into my greenhouse, some new herbs in the herb spiral such as lemonade thyme and …., Black Lace Elder at the back of the garden, many more alliums, wild daffodils and perennial tulips, verbena bampton and ……
This year 2025 I am hoping to create a small front garden as we have inherited a barren gravel drive. I shall try to grow plants from seed in time for an autumn planting, but it will be a big job, digging out the poor compacted soil and bringing in better soil to give the plants a good start in life.

I leave you with an excerpt from my book – a message from Pan, God of nature.

I contacted Master Pan as a ninth-dimensional master of light. He told me he communicates with different factions of humanity in various guises and varying vibrational rates such as the Green Man and Cernunnos. I asked Master Pan for a pictorial representation of who he is, and I received an image of a beautifully complex green fractal/ mandala. I sensed that within Master Pan are all of the dimensions of Nature from the third dimension upwards, and some still as pure potential.
‘I have been demonized by your world religions, depicting me with horns (forgotten antennae to the Source/god/dess) alluding to my having a beast-like nature, as humanity sought to rise above Nature, not realizing that this cannot be achieved since you are Nature and the so-called ‘beast’ is your raw, inherent, instinctual nature. I am pure love from the Source just as you are, and my role is very simple: to hold the template of all of Nature, including humanity, to the highest level of light that can be achieved. Go into your heart space and invite me in and I will inspire you in whichever way is appropriate, in order to reawaken you to Nature and your role within it. This I pledge to you.’