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Seed Boxes 2024

The first 5 seed boxes have been shipped during the vernal equinox week! It’s been a hell of a work again and took longer than last time from start to finish. Extras inlcuded are some rare Echinacea ‘Green Twister’, darkred climbing monkshood, different ‘slate black’ lenten roses, Caucasian mandrake, some lovely low growing foxglove called ‘silverfox’ and big fat mandrake seeds harvested by my German friend @bussardflug Further this year’s box comes with seeds for growing your own fragrant sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) and the endangered white sage (Salvia apiana).

This year’s seed box is different! The boxes are pyrographed on all sides, with a variation of the Sigillum Major (Greater Seed Sowing Sigil) on the lid and devils and lunar planting symbols on the sides. The bottom is pyrographed again with the Sigillum Minor (Lesser Seed Sowing Sigil).

I have now started on the next 5 boxes… there’s exactly one box left for pre-order. 🙂

The preview shows the plain pyrographed boxes. In the next step these are stained with dark oak on the corpus and dark green to light oak color on the lid.

They are filled again with the annual seed harvest, gathered from my own witch plants, as well as seeds sourced from trusted nuseries and herbalists. The full list:

  • Aquilegia atrata
  • Aconitum napellus
  • Aconitum hemsleyanum ‘Red Wine’ (rare!)
  • Atropa belladonna
  • Datura ferox (rare!)
  • Datura innoxia
  • Datura metel var. Fastuosa ‘Black Currant Swirl’
  • Datura metel var. Fastuosa ‘Golden Queen Triple’ (rare!)
  • Datura stramonium
  • Digitalis purpurea ssp. heywoodii ‘Silverfox’ (rare!)
  • Helleborus foetidus
  • Helleborus x orientalis, dark color mix (rare!)
  • Hyoscyamus niger
  • Mandragora caulescens (rare!)
  • Mandragora officinarum (rare!)
  • Nicotiana tabacum
  • Papaver somniferum ‘Black Peony’
  • Solanum dulcamara
  • Angelica archangelica
  • Artemisia absinthium
  • Circaea lutetiana
  • Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Twister’ (rare!)
  • Foeniculum vulgare ‘Bronce’
  • Helianthus annuus ‘Black Magic’
  • Hierochloe odorata
  • Hypericum androsaemum
  • Rudbeckia occidentalis ‘Green Wizzard’
  • Ruta graveolens
  • Salvia apiana
  • Symphytum officinale
  • Tropaeolum minus ‘Black Velvet’
  • Valeriana officinalis
  • Verbena officinalis

Below are some examples of plants and flowers I have grown successfully from seed and which are included in this year’s seed box:

Update: the pre-order for the second batch of boxes is sold out. When I have finished these I will announce the next five boxes.

April 1, 2024

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Seed Boxes 2019

The past months were spent crafting and filling another row of Teufelskunst seed boxes. This year’s regular series included again a variety of new and old witch herb classics, while the recent “Black Flowers” edition, which was finalized this week, holds again a little treasury of extravagant, black or near black flowering plants as well as some vegetables with black fruits. Below are a few impressions of the final boxes. All remaining black flowers boxes will be shipped on the 15th of July. Please watch your email inboxes (and spam folders) for shipping notifications.

July 13, 2019

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Seed Boxes 2018

Over three months in the making – the seed boxes for 2018 are finally here! All those, who had asked to be added to the reservation list, have been notified in e-mail earlier and pre-orders have now been processed. It is with joy, that I can say, the special “black flowers” edition sold out within a few days. There are still 3 of the regular seed boxes left. For ordering please go here.

Some impressions of the work progress on these latest seed boxes:

6 regular (red) with seeds for 69 different witch herbs + 4 “black flowers” boxes

wooden seed boxes, pyrographed, stained and varnished by hand

new motif for the “black flowers” special, applied by hand with blueprint paper

finished “black flowers” seed boxes, pyrographed, stained and varnished by hand

For details about the seeds contained in these boxes and growing info please view the listings in the Teufelskunst webshop and visit my garden blog at Pflanzenkunst.

June 16, 2018

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