“I enjoy perpetual spring: the year always shines, trees are leafing, the solid always fodders. I have a fruitful garden in my dowered fields, fanned by breezes, fed by limpid fountains. My husband filled it with well-bred flowers, saying: ‘Have jurisdiction of the flower, goddess.’ I often wanted to number the colours displayed, but could not: their abundance defied measure.” – Ovid, Fasti 5.193
Flora is a Roman goddess, one of flowers, spring, beginnings, renewal, fertility, abundance and growth. She isn’t just a goddess of flowers, but a goddess of life, …

The Poinsettia is one of those plants that have become a staple during the holiday season, but many are unaware of how it found its place in Christmas tradition. Unlike other Christmas elements, the Poinsettia comes to us by way of the New World—Mexico to be specific. The Aztecs, who recognized its beauty and usefulness called the plant “cuetlaxochitl,” commonly translated from the Nahuatl as “star flower.”