Geidwad: Welsh Illustrated Card With Sage Seeds

A botanical greetings card with organic sage seeds to send, sow and grow. Left blank for your own message, our cards are 100% recycled.

An ancient symbol of wisdom and domestic virtue, in Welsh folklore it was believed that if a maiden were to strip the leaves off a branch of sage at midnight, an apparition of her future husband would appear!

The Welsh name geidwad means ‘keeper’ or ‘guardian’, reflecting the plant’s well known healing properties and role in rituals and accessing spiritual realms. Welsh medieval medicine men the Physicians of Myddfai prescribed sage for strengthening the nerves and lungs, extracting poison from wounds, and for the general preservation of health and long life.