Melissa Love
@gnome-and-tonic
Hedgewitch in the Netherlands 🌿🖤 Runs the 't Gooi Heksencafe www.WitchcraftAndTea.com
Following the last post, you can see how similar they are. The one to the right is the Gewone dophei (Common Heath - Erica tetralix). The one to the left is Struikheide (Common Heather - Calluna vulgaris). #Herbalism
My Hollyhock finally bloomed! They grow in the cobblestone cracks here like dandelions but will they grow in my garden? Noooooo..... 🫠 So this was exciting. 😅
Found a patch of wild chamomile on my walk this evening. Their apple scent was so strong, I smelled it before seeing it 🖤
Circaea lutetiana: Enchanter's Nightshade (in Dutch translates to Great Witch Herb) is known as the herb to "make others lost", usually growing in the old forests here. #FolkloreSunday #WitchSky
I don't usually share images of my actual practice here but this one is finished. There is a Yucca Adam's Needle I inherited from the witch before me in my garden to ward and welcome. This poppet was a protection one for an empath doing rough work with clients. The Yucca really helps that membrane.
One of the guardians who grow in the dunes 🖤🌿 The Amelanchier lamarckii is not native here originally but has been naturalized (welcomed) and has adopted this space. This one is about 40 years old here now and banters with the other older guardians, the silver birch family across.
My poor hydrangeas are battered with hail holes 😂😂😂😅 #Nederland #Netherlands
Found a patch of wild St. John's Wort between the forest and the dunes. It is easy to see how these bright yellow flowers are traditionally so helpful to lift the mood. Just being near them was healing. 🌿💛
Ahhhhhhh! @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social ! This is so freaking cute I love it! Can't wait to find a good frame 🤩❤️😍 Thank you so much! #WitchSky #ArtSky #Art #Crow #Mugwort #GothicArt
My 9 year old made me a necklace for the pride walk tomorrow 🤩😂😂 They are amazing haha. I run the Witches in 't #Gooi #Heksencafe which is a meetup for witches in this area of the #Netherlands. We are going to #Utrecht together for #pride with rainbow witch hats hahaha #WitchSky
Went to visit the wild foxgloves who are the siblings of the ones in my garden 🖤🖤🖤🌿 #WitchSky
Today is my 15 year anniversary so we went on a bicycle ride in the dunes to breakfast and saw the wild highland cows on the way 🖤
Mine is mostly covered in bumbles right now but yeeesssss absolutely 🌙
@taionthegnome.bsky.social a 5 leafer today! After I found a 4 leaf and gave it to a random mom at a playground 😂 still no hagstones 😂🫠 #GoodLuck #WitchSky
Me too! I need to get better at it. I keep seeing faces in the leaves and they end up turning out like this 🫠😅:
Aconitum spp. (Wolfsbane, Monkshood, Aconite) is said to be born from the toxic drooling of Cerberus, the guard dog of the Underworld in Hellenism. #FolkloreThursday
The first of my coral, double-heart roses bloomed this morning. ❤️ #WitchSky #GardenSky