Plant Lore

Only the priest or priestess could were allowed to gather club moss. The plants and spores were collected in July and August for use in blessings and protection.

Druidic Alphabet - R (Ruis). The elder tree can grow to thirty feet in height, and is covered with a light brown bark with deep ridges and groves. Its leaves are broad and oval in shape, and it has a tiny white flower with five petals and a sweet scent. In autumn it...

Also known as the Birth Tree. Burning needles or sweeping around the bed with a branch blessed and protected a mother and her new baby.

The source of the modern heart drug Digitalis, this is a Poisonous plant and can have seriously dangerous results if taken internally. DO NOT INGEST!!Associated with the Little People and Otherworld beings. Plant Foxglove near your front door to invite the Faery in....

O~Ohn~ The furze is a yellow-flowering shrub that grows profusely on the open moors and hillsides of Great Britain. It blooms year around, although its densest bloom is in the spring and early summer. Its flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, and give off a strong...

Druidic Alphabet - H (Huathe) The Hawthorn is a rather small tree that grows with a dense, many branched and twisted tangle. Due to its impenetrable growth, it is mainly used for hedgerows, and the origin of its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'haegthorn,' meaning...

C~Coll~Hazel The hazel tree presides over the month of July. Hazel trees frequently grow as a clump of slender trunks, and when they do adopt a one-trunk-and-canopy tree shape.The Gaelic word for hazel is Coll. It appears frequently in placenames in the west of...

U~Ur Heather is often connected with death and completion in the Celtic tree Ogham, but its name, Ur, means 'new.' Heather is the symbolic gateway linking the earth with the spirit world. Heather is a rather twisted gnarled plant that grows profusely on the moors and...

T~Tinne~Holly Holly is male, and symbolizes paternity and fatherhood, and the fight. With the Ivy and the Mistletoe, the Holly has always been regarded as a potent life symbol, both for his year-long foliage and for his winter fruits. Concealed within the verses of...

D~Duir~Oak The oak was a central tree to the Druids, and is the king of the forest. Our modern English word "door," comes from the Gaelic word 'duir' - the word for solidity, protection... and the mighty oak tree. Oak groves were sacred to the druids. The oak tree has...