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I second the moss agate for your bonsais.

Here's a few others!

GARDENERS STONES FOR HERBS AND OTHER PLANTS

Something I like to do at this time of year is start hanging specific stones in amongst some of my herbs and shrubs to enhance the properties of the plants. I glue a little bell-cap onto each tumbled stone and attach it loosely to the plant with a thread or twist-tie. I prefer to hang them instead of setting them on the soil because they can get lost in the soil if they're small, it keeps them cleaner when hanging, and they look so scintillating in the light when they swing with the breezes. Here are some of my favorite plants, and the stones I put with them.

ROSES love ...what else...ROSE QUARTZ of course, they just automatically go hand in hand. The rose quartz helps the blooms to maintain their petals longer, and helps prevent the edges from turning brown as they finally fade. I like to collect the petals then and preserve them for future use. Rose quartz can also help keep your own skin feeling soft and velvety like a rose petal.

MOSS AGATE is the ultimate gardeners stone for any plant. It will enhance your own green thumb and helps you to find hidden treasures in the earth. All plants will respond to moss agate with a spurt of growth and an abundance of new leaves. It's a stone of prosperity in all ways. Green moss agate is best for plants, red moss agate tends to increase financial prosperity for the owner.

All of the plants that have a lemon or citrusy scent/taste will benefit well with CITRINE, PERIDOT, FLOURITE. These stones generate a robust, sunny energy that boosts the citrus aroma and taste.

GINGKO BILOBA promotes good memory and provides for more oxygen to the brain, and these properties can be enhanced with LAPIS LAZULI, IOLITE, BLUE TIGER EYE.

PEPPERS, TOMATOES, POPPIES, NASTURTIUM, MONARDA and all members of the MINT family benefit from the rich, fiery strength of CARNELIAN and PYRITE.

GARLIC and all other ALIUMS, QUINCE, PEPPERCRESS, LILLIES, GLADIOLAS, PANSIES and BLACK VIOLETS, GRAPES do well with TIGER IRON. Tiger Iron is a combination stone that can contain stripes of any color of JASPER, any color of TIGER EYE, black and red HEMATITE, PYRITE all layered against each other. Their energies are flamboyant and very enduring, and when they all come together in one stone you have a powerhouse.

LAVENDAR, BASIL, SAGE, BLUEBERRIES, PLUMS do nicely with LEPIDOLITE, FLOURITE, AMETHYST.

APPLES, STRAWBERRIES, TULIPS, LETTUCES, CELERY all benefit from RHODONITE, AQUAMARINE, any color of APATITE.

CHICKWEED, RASPBERRIES, CHERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, HONEYSUCKLE respond to BLOODSTONE.

Well, that's just a short list of some of my favorites for outdoors.

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you asked if I experimented with the stones and the plants. The answer is yes, and no. I've been putting stones with my plants for many years now - some of it was experimental, some of it was from channeling the stones and some of it was from observing how the plants responded to various stones.

For example, I noted that all plants will indeed respond to moss agate, and another stone that all plants like is mica. I have a lot of orchids and whenever one of them seems to be ailing a piece of green or blue fluorite will perk it right up again. Green fluorite is also good to place with a plant that has received an injury, such as a torn leaf, or broken stem, or when it's been chewed on by an insect.

You may have noticed that in the list I submitted above, some of those plants will have flowers or fruits of a certain color and the stones that went well with them also were of the same color. That ties in with your comment about plants having chakras that correspond to stones of the same color - i.e. the citrus scented/flavored plants with peridot and citrine (and green fluorite). It's true that plants have chakras, albeit somewhat different from the chakras on other living things.

It's not only crystals that plants respond to. I also use lots of rough quartz river pebbles with my more tender plants to keep farmer ants and their herds of nectar-aphids away - ants aren't too keen about quartz because they don't like the piezoelectric properties of quartz when it gets heated by the sun. I use rough slates of many colors, and flint, granite, pyrite, marble and sandstones with my bonsaied evergreens. My little oak trees all have river tumbled black basalt in with them, and my norfolk pines have river tumbled serpentine.

All of my plants are in large containers and they're all kept pruned short and bushy, or bonsaied.

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layzdapipe said:
Its something to test...

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layzdapipe said:
You dont have to point out to me it could be bullshit, but honestly its like 2 dollars for like 200 small moss agate stones.

So, What the fuck.

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Ok, yeah, if it's two dollars, whatever then lol
(probably won't work thouuuugggh )

Sorry 'bout that dude, I've been a little edgy today all-around

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layzdapipe said:
Its something to test...

Unless your to cheap to buy a crystal.

Keep the trolling for OTD, or better yet, "The Nook"...

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layzdapipe said:
What will that do, kill them?

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