Plants that I find Fairies to have an affinity to.

Apples.  I don't know what it is about apples, but I feel the fey near them.  It is also associated with the underworld.  http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Apple.htm Since they flower in the early spring, it will also give nectar to bees, and other polinators.  If you get crabapples, you can feed birds later on.  It also smells wonderful.

Hawthorne http://www.witchipedia.com/herb:hawthorn

Thyme.  http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/flowers/t.html I don't know if butterflies like it, but I do know that bees will like it as well.  Since bees are having issues, planting it, will help them.

Blackberry(they are thorny as heck.  birds and many wildlife will eat them.  They are also yummy as hell.)http://www.witchipedia.com/herb:blackberry http://livingfolkways.blogspot.com/2013/06/blackberry-folk-medicine-and-food-rubus_20.html  They are high in fiber.  http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/31/blackberry-facts_n_2581622.html?just_reloaded=1

I haven't noticed fey around elderberry, but then I haven't really looked, nor do I know if I've planted any.  http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2778/#b  However a lot of lore is associated with that.

Hollyhocks.  http://globalgoddessoracle.com/Lammas2006/herbs.htm  Hollyhocks can be nectar as well as host plants to butterflies.

Roses.  If you get the kind that fruits and makes hips, you can make tea out of those that are high in vitamin c.

I have found that the fey, love butterfly gardens.

Butterfly bush, flowers all season.  Get a few different colors.  The red attracts hummingbirds.  The bees also loved it.

Milkweed.  It is necessary for monarchs to lay their eggs.  Monarchs are having a hard time of it.  If you have damp clay soil, get yourself swamp milkweed.  There are several ornamental varieties.

Cone flowers and black eyed susans.  They are drought tolerant and will flower and give nectar all season.  There are several different varieties.

Beebalm.  It will flower and thrive in part sun I have found.  (I planted it in the shady area by my front door in ms).  Bees love it, hummingbirds love it, so do butterflies.

Bronze fennel.  Heat tolerant, and the swallowtails love to eat it.

Dill.  Swallowtails love it.  Will take the abuse and come back, but don't expect to get much for yourself.

Hollyhock.  It can be a host plant.

Perennial sunflower.  It is also a host plant.  Plus if you let it go to seeds the birds later on will love you.

Clover.  Some moths will use it.  Bees love the nectar.

Wild violets.  It is a host plant to an endangered butterfly.  It will flower in early spring.  Likes partial shade.  Plant in an area you aren't planning on mowing.

Gay feather, or liatris.  It is a great nectar plant.

If you are in the east coast, plant wild lupine.  It is a host plant to an endangered butterfly.

Bees and birds, and you will love this plant.  http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/herbal-library/magical-herbs/strawberry-history-folklore-myth-and-magic/  Get yourself some alpine strawberry seeds.  They will have these tiny delectable strawberries.  You can also grow regular strawberries as well.

The Silver ones

I do not know what if any tradition these originated in.  I do not know if I'm the only one to see them.  I saw them when I lived in Massachusetts, and I saw them in Washington.  I have seen them in KS, but they felt different.

They when I see them, are silver, usually on the edge of woods, elves and wolves.  In ks, they are silver Native Americans and wolves.

They like cream.

I do not know what their purpose is.  I have seen them, I feel a closeness.  I have felt them be protective.

Morrigan

A tall, black haired, sensual, powerful, take charge type of woman.  One who exudes a cool exterior.  She's a Queen.  A woman who knows what she is doing, and isn't afraid to go after what she wants.  A kick ass bitch(she smiled when I typed that) type of woman.

She has a presence of an Ice Queen.  Though I sense, that is what she shows, while she watches you.  I also sense that she is very warm underneath.  Someone with that much passion, I can't see not having an inner warmth.

Crows, Ravens, Fae, Sex, Violence, and Law, are what I feel and see when I think of her.  Blood and primalness.

I respect and I am wary of her.  Wariness is not fear.  I however do not have the same close relationship and the ability to say what I will, that I do with Loki.

Samhain and the dead time

The leaves are turning, from green, to orange, gold and red.  They are dropping from the trees littering the ground.  The air is crisp, dry, and hitting the early freezing points.  Insects are buzzing about, trying to find the last sustenance before hitting their dormancy and or dying.

Horror franchise is throwing out scary films to coincide with halloween.  Farmers are offering hay rides and pumpkins, and corn mazes to gain extra cash.  And the coffee places are pumpkin EVERYTHING.  Your children are excited about what costumes to wear, for their favorite holiday, free candy night.  I'm personally thinking of investing in a lock box, so that they can't raid it and torture me with continual sugar highs.

The nights are getting longer.  It is taking the sun longer to come up in the morning.  Frost is starting to need to be scraped off your windshield.  And the wind is starting to howl just a little bit.

The night is getting creepier.  The veil is thinning.  The dead are easier to sense.  The otherworld is making it's presence known.

I felt them, last saturday.  I was dropping my daughter off at her school, at the butt crack of dawn, at 4:30 ish in the a.m.  The night was still and black, the only thing to be seen was from my head lights.  The farmlands seemed creepier and had this odd sense of danger to them.  The cemetery, by the Catholic church and the church itself felt ominous.  The school, safe.  On the way back, I couldn't get the thoughts of the wild hunt led by Odin out of my head.  Shortly after, the disapproving glares of the dead Native Americans who used to live there joined it.  


I was so glad to get home after dropping her off.  I also hoped that she would get back when it was still daylight.(barely, we made it out just as the twilight was receding) and headed to a busier town.  I did not want to drive in the dark with that ominous feel to the world.

On the way to picking her up, I saw someone had ended up in the deep ditch.  Half a dozen were stopped and were plank hauling the person up.  As I was calling the emergency numbers, the police showed up.  10 minutes up the road, I heard the sirens, and pulled over as a sheriff came from the direction I was heading in, speeding down to help.  It was a serious accident, but I do not know the results.

Odin isn't the only one who runs the wild hunt.  Cernunnos does as well.  As do most of the Tuatha De Danaan.  Aka High Elves from Ireland.

http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/forhunt.html
Legends http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/huntsman.html