Plants · four traditions
In bloom now
Flowers as small kami — hanakotoba, the language of flowers, plus the spirits who tend each species through the rainy season and the snow.
Reading the sky over Los Angeles (34.05°, -118.24°)(allow location in the cookie banner to use your sky)
Japanese · morning glory (asagao)
Tanabata weavers
Asagao blooms only in the morning and folds itself before noon. The seeds were once worth gold for medicine. Tanabata, the weaver-star festival, falls in this month — and asagao on a bamboo stake is the first decoration.
- In season now
- morning glory (asagao)
- Month
- June
- Drawn
- Mon, Jun 1, 8:12 PM