Inside, you can grow certain plants for magickal purposes:

• African violets can be grown to promote spirituality and peaceful vibrations.
• Aloe vera is great for its sap to use for healing, plus it protects against intruders and accidents.
• Anthurium is a good plant to grow for beauty and love.
• Avocados can be grown by sticking toothpicks in the pit and then suspending them with their bottoms just barely touching the water, to make it grow a root. Then it can be planted like a big seed and a plant will sprout that spreads love and sexual appetite.
• Bird’s nest ferns can offer protection to the home and its occupants.
• Bromeliads are beautiful plants that bring luxury and abundance.
• Cacti have many different types that can all be grown in sunny windows; they can be set in one window on each quarter of the house to safeguard against burglary. Grow one in the bedroom to lower sexual appetite.
• Crocuses send loving vibrations and peace into the home.
• Cyclamen has protective vibrations and won’t let bad spells enter the home, and it guards against bad weather also.
• Ferns should be placed before large windows to spread magick in the home.
• Ivy plants are protective, and can be put in pots indoors or made to grow outside the house, up the wall.
• Norfolk Island Pines protect against hunger and evil, and are great shapes and sizes for Yule trees.
• Orchids are love-related plants, and depending on how they are used in magick they can spark or cool love and sexuality.
• Palms uplift the spirit.
• San Pedro cacti are hard to find, but they are aligned with the wind (the east) and protect the home.
• Succulents bring love and abundance.
• Ti plants are protective and draw positive vibrations into the home. If you place a coin beneath its pot, you will attract money.
• Tulips guard against poverty and desperation, and are plants of love.
• Venus's flytrap plants can protect, and also can be magickally trained toward a certain goal to “trap” between their teeth.
• Wandering Jew plants are protective.
• Wax plants put a safety net around the home, and their leaves are reminiscent of pentagrams.
• Weeping fig plants give restful sleep in the bedroom, and guard against poverty and hunger in the kitchen. Provides prosperity and good luck wherever it is grown.

In an outdoor garden, you can plant certain herbs that you use the most and charge them yourself while they grow, enhancing their effectiveness. It is also possible to arrange them aesthetically, or to make them part of an outdoor temple, complete with mystical furniture and accessories, surrounded by nature.

For increasing psychic powers, plant bay tree, celery, honeysuckle, marigolds, roses, and/or thyme in your garden.

For increasing love in the house, plant gardenia, primrose, spearmint, tomato, pansy, jasmine, and catnip, with cherry, apple, orange, maple, and/or willow trees if possible.

For increasing happiness in the home, plant hyacinth, lavender, marjoram, catnip and morning glory.

For increasing financial stability, plant mint, onion, snapdragon, camellia, chamomile, clover, dill, basil, and some wheat. Pine, oak, ash, and apple trees add to this, as do banana plants.

For banning theft, plant a fence of ti around the home’s perimeter, and include garlic, cimin, vetivert, thistles, aspen, cactus, or juniper.

For luck, bamboo, hydrangea, sunflowers, myrtle, bay, or palm can be planted near the home.

Burn incense in your garden by just sticking stick incense into the ground; you can charge your plants. If you do this and walk around the garden clockwise by moonlight three times, you will bless your garden.

You can put a statue guardian in your garden to ward off pests.

Trace protective signs into the earth around your garden to keep it safe.

Guard trees by planting horseshoes near them.

Try putting in a spring or well if it is possible, this adds much magick to the area.

Put praying mantises and ladybugs in your garden to feed on the destructive insects.

Source: Cunningham and Harrington, The Magical Household