As Potent as a Charm also included some holiday beauties whose good will might be suspect:

Black Hellebore
Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger

[holly]

Biding Time
Mistletoe, Viscum album

a riddle
I lived my life between the worlds
Neither earth nor sky would call me child
The birds were my companions
The wind and rain my mentors
Daily I grew in power and strength
‘Til snatched out of time by the trickster
answer: mistletoe