Living in Season

According to my holiday calendar, http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/sept.html in Ethiopia people celebrate Holy Cross on September 27 by bui...

Since this is a day in the French Republican calendar that ends in a 5, the 5th of Vendimiare to be exact, there is an animal rather than a ...

The plant of the day for Vendemiaire 4 in the French Republican calendar is the autumn crocus or colchique . This is a plant I mentioned bri...

The start of autumn equinox and the start of the month of Vendemiaire (the harvest) in the French Republican Calendar rightfully features t...

One of the things I love about this blog is the way it wakes me up to plants. I wrote about sedums and then I drove my car to work (yes! sho...

How bright atop the wall The stonecrop's fire. Robert Nichols (1893-1944) On Sunday, I went to the Library Book Sale—I always go on half...

Missed posting my entry last night because I didn’t have access to the Internet. Not sure whether this is a problem with AOL or with my cabl...

It’s a bit overwhelming to contemplate writing about the plant of the day for Fructidor 28: maize or corn. So I’ll refer you to the excellen...

The plant for Fructidor 26 in the French Republican calendar is bigarade , bitter orange. One of the great joys of this Plant of the Day blo...

Last year at this time I invited the readers of my newsletter http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/newletters/news090505.html to submit nominat...

The plant of the day for Fructidor 23 (Sep 9) was hop. But I chose to feature the chrysanthemum instead in honor of the Chinese Double Nine ...

My eyes, having seen all, Came back to The white chrysanthemums Issho The Chinese consider the chrysanthemum the flower of autumn. It is a m...

And in this the Lord showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand. . .In this little thing I saw three...

No plant today. It's Fructidor 20 so the French Republican calendar features a tool: the sack, to be exact. At first I wasn't too in...

Open afresh your round of starry folds Ye ardent marigolds Keats The French Republican calendar lists the flower for Fructidor 19 as tagette...

Amaryllis Belladonna Last year I wrote about birthday flowers, the idea that one might associate a particular flower with each day of the ye...

The plant of the day for Fructidor 16 in the French Republican Calendar is the lemon. So I am drinking a lemonade (with watermelon ice cube ...

Since it's a day that ends in a 5 (the 15th of Fructidor to be exact), the French Republican Calendar features an animal: the trout. I...

It’s Fructidor 14 in the French Republican calendar and the plant for today is the walnut. I grew up in a suburban ranch house built in the ...

The plant for Fructidor 13 (August 30) is the barberry or berberis vulgaris . Mrs. Grieve says Berberis comes from the Arabic name for the f...