With a little creativity, you can use any garden — sun garden, shade garden, dry garden, water garden, or container garden — to cultivate love. In this section, look to the elements or quarters to assist you in find your own special place. The following garden spells are designed to help love in these areas, from communication to passion and fertility.

Communication Garden Spell

Without this openness and trust you cannot achieve the full potential love has to offer. This spell is designed to activate truth and promote open and honest communication. Perform and plant during spring.

Ingredients

butterfly bush

ornamental grasses

yellow and blue crocuses

daffodils

blue hyacinth

blue bell flowers

moon flowers

morning glories

trellis

white roses

sage

lavender

lemon balm

• Prepare your soil.

• Choose a design or pattern to fit your flowers, herbs, and bulbs in the garden. The idea is to fit them all in the garden without overlapping. Place the trellis in the back of the garden, allowing the moon flowers and morning glories to climb up and flower throughout the summer season. Plant the lemon balm directly in the ground, still in the container. This will keep it from taking over your garden.

4. Once you have planted, water everything well.

5. Stand over your garden to empower it with positive energy. Visualize in your mind a relationship that has an open and honest relationship. Recite the following incantation:

Water and care for your garden throughout the season. Feel free to expand upon your garden, adding more perennials and annuals. These types of flowers bring continuous blooms throughout the spring and summer months.

Passion Garden Spell

This garden is to be grown in the southern corner of your yard. Borrow the energies of the South to help manifest passion and sexual energy within your relationship.

Ingredients

red roses

red hot pokers (yellow, orange, and red varieties)

hollyhocks

red geraniums

Cupid statuary

black-eyed Susans

coneflowers

red tulips

yellow crocuses

shasta daisies

dill

hibiscus

basil

parsley

lemon grass

• Prepare your soil.

• Plant your flowers, plants, and herbs in any design you like. Feel free to accentuate your garden by adding garden décor in the color and design. Place Cupid in the middle to act as a focal point and place the tall flowers toward the back of your garden to create a cascade effect. This creates a natural slide effect, which will guide the energies to flow toward your home.

• Water well and fertilize if needed.

• Holding your arms out over your garden, empower it with intent. Visualize your life filled with passionate energy. See and feel the warmth of this passion travel from your heart down your body to the base of your spine and then back up again to your heart. See your relationship becoming passionate and sensual. Recite the following incantation:

  “I call upon the energies of the South.

  Ignite the passion within my house,

  Fill me with a desire so new,

  Passion and sexuality through and through.”

Continue to maintain your garden throughout the season. Add fertilizer every three months, and add lime if needed.

Love Garden Spell

This spell activates unconditional love and emotional strength to generate a greater understanding of emotional love, and the unconditional love that is open to all who want it. Prepare the garden in the westerly corner of your yard. The flowers contained in this garden require full sun.

Ingredients

foxglove

morning glories

passion flower

violets

basil

lavender

chamomile

white and pink carnations

light blue petunias

cosmos

peppermint

The above ingredients are all associated with love, specifically emotional love. They will help aid in the emotional balance of any relationship.

• Prepare your soil.

• Arrange flowers by color, creating a heart-shaped garden design. Fill in the remainder areas with different color flowers to accentuate the design. Water, weed, and fertilize as needed to ensure a happy environment for all flowers, herbs, and plants.

• Stand over your garden and stretch your arms out, letting them hover over the garden. Empower your garden with its intent. Visualize in your mind a happy and healthy relationship, one that is balanced and full of unconditional love and compassion.

Recite the following incantation:

Water and fertilize as needed. You must nurture your spell throughout the season to ensure a strong emotional bond. In essence, by watering and fertilizing your flowers you are nurturing your emotional health as well.

Anywhere Love Garden Spell

The anywhere love garden is for yards of all shapes, sizes, and sun exposure. The spells are for shade, dry, and even water love gardens. You can empower a garden you already have with flowers and plants that are associated with love. The following is a list of flowers associated with different light. Empower them in your own garden, and watch how love grows.

• Sun Love Garden:rose, geranium, lilac, sunflower, daisy, purple coneflower, daffodil, crocus, carnation, chamomile, marigold.

• Shade Love Garden: hosta, Virginia blue bell, bleeding heart, forget-me-not, bee balm, lobelia, primrose, columbine, pansy, impatiens.

• Dry Love Garden: cactus, sedum, rudbekia, yarrow, coreopsis, coneflower.

• Water Love Garden: lotus water lily, blue flag iris.

• Choose where you will place your garden based upon the areas of love you want to improve.

• Plant your flowers, then water and empower your garden.

• Let your hands hover over your garden. Visualize the love you have in your life. See yourself happy and filled with joy, laughter, and love. Feel the swelling in your heart as you experience the love you have always longed for, and feel this love envelop you and fill your soul.