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 Las Vegas, set yours below
Japanese · cosmos (kosumosu)
the migrating birds
Cosmos came to Japan from Mexico but settled into autumn so quickly the haiku poets adopted it. Pink heads on long stems in the late wind. The flower that arrived and was welcomed without being asked where it came from.
- In season now
- cosmos (kosumosu)
- Month
- October
- Drawn
- Sat, Oct 17, 2:39 PM