Samhain is known as the witches new year but I do not consider myself a witch! So it’s not new year. Or maybe it is. Maybe it is the end of this circle and a new one starts at the winter solstice. I actually confuses me a little bit. Leave a comment if you can enlighten me! :-)
I had to include oak leaves in my project! I love oak trees.
As the year leans into winter, it is getting a bit more difficult to find colourful flowers to include in the pages. Especially wildflowers, so I may be using flowers that aren’t technically flowering at this time of year. But with climate change maybe they soon will?
For the other Samhain page I have used common knapweed and rosehips. I think you can probably still find rosehips here and there.
I don’t know if I have talked about my criteria for including a plant in my book? They are wildflowers (or trees) that are native to the UK. I count ‘brought over by the Romans’ as being native. I think if you have been in a country for 2000 years then you are no longer a newcomer? :-D
