What Are Magical Flowers?

Sun Garden

• Planting a sun garden of annuals casts a spell of light, fertility and good weather. Sun gardens honor the solar year's life cycle. This type of garden consists of sunflowers, planted in the middle. Around the sunflowers, plant yellow and orange cosmos and callipsis, marigolds, chamomile, golden marguerite, orange butterfly weed, feverfew and St. John's wort. One blue flower inhabits a sun garden, blue heliotrope, whose name means "turn to the sun."

Moon Garden

• A moon garden casts a spell of moisture and rain, to complement the sun garden. This garden begins with silver-grey artemisias, in honor of Artemis, the Greek moon goddess. Wormwood, mugwort, southernwood, silver king, silver queen, silver mound and sweet annie are the main contributors to the spell that a moon garden conjures up. Additional flowers include silver thyme, white alyssum, white lilies, santolina, lamb's ears, sweet cicely, moonflower vines and lunaria.

Mars Garden

• A Mars garden casts a spell of energy and heat for areas slow to warm up after a cold winter. Mars plants are red mustard, coriander and horseradish. Complements to this type of garden include blue clematis, blue-violet lobelia, purple alyssum, purple loosestrife, giant lovage, angelica, anise, basil, agastache and Joe-Pye weed. Plant purple sage and houseleek, believed to be gifts from Jupiter and meant to ward off lightning strikes.

Protection Garden

• Place a small wooden house in the middle of a protection garden and surround it with rings of flowers. Paint the small house to look like your home, preferably with the same paint if possible. Create a pattern with bricks that run between and around the rings of flowers. On the bricks, place broken bottles, shards of pottery and large nails to symbolize protection around your home and property. Thorny plants and flowers like roses and thistle provide added protection. Include protective herbs such as agrimony, rue, vervain, burdock, hawthorn and blackthorn. To complete the protection spell, let the garden grow until you can no longer see the little house in the middle. Fence in this garden to keep it contained and to symbolize your property boundaries.