Journal
The studio keeps time with the garden, not the calendar. Each season carries its own materials, its own light, its own quiet astrology — what's blooming, what's going to seed, what the moon is doing while it happens. These are notes from inside that rhythm.
August: Eclipse Season
Cape Cod forest
Floral Installation at Eleventh Hour Art
August Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
This August Journal is arriving much later than I intended. But in a way, that feels true to the season itself. August was full of work, travel, transition, and the quiet preparations that happen before something new is ready to be seen.
Much of the month was shaped by my work at the gallery. Being in that space, surrounded by art and the conversations it creates, continues to influence how I think about my own practice. Gallery work asks for a particular kind of presence: looking closely, caring for details, and helping create the conditions in which art can be encountered.
Cape Cod forest Truro MA
Cape Cod Yearly Pilgrimage
My family and I have been traveling to Cape Cod every summer since 2013, it is our yearly family vacation. We rest, read, spend long days at Brush Hollow beach watching the wildlife pass by, swim in the ponds and eat lobster almost every day.
Time near the water, changing light, salt air, and the textures of the landscape gave me room this summer to step outside my usual routines. I am always observing the mossy branches, how they are scattered through the forest naturally with the wildflowers blooming around them. Sometimes my work there is simply observing, paying attention to color, movement, atmosphere, and the way a place makes me feel. Those impressions often enter the work later, in ways I couldn’t have planned. I did some foraging this summer and was able to slip a mossy branch into the car, although my daughter was not happy about it!
Leo into Virgo Season
Leo into Virgo Season - Eclipsed
August is carrying us from Leo season into Virgo season, with eclipse season intensifying the feeling that something was shifting beneath the surface. Leo brings warmth, visibility, creativity, and the courage to take up space. Virgo turns our attention toward refinement, ritual, organization, and the practical care required to bring an idea into form.
I am feeling that transition very clearly!
There have been moments of outward movement travel, gallery life, gathering inspiration, and then a gradual turn inward toward sorting, editing, organizing, and preparing. Eclipse season can illuminate what is ready to change, sometimes before we feel entirely prepared for it. For me, it has been a period of recognizing what I want to carry forward and what needs to be reimagined.
Behind the scenes, I’ve also been working on my new website and preparing for my fall work. Much of this labor is nearly invisible: selecting images, revisiting older work, writing and rewriting, organizing materials, considering how everything connects, and building a clearer home for the work online. It can feel slow, but these preparations are part of the practice too. They create the structure that allows the next chapter to emerge.
New Studio Light
Studio Light
One of the most significant changes this month has been moving into my new studio. A studio becomes more than a room; over time, it develops its own atmosphere and way of holding the work. Right now, I’m still learning this space, where the light falls, how I want to move through it, and what kinds of ideas it might invite. Unpacking, arranging, and beginning again have all become part of the creative process.
As I settle into the new studio and move closer to sharing what I’ve been developing, I can feel the season beginning to turn. There is still much happening quietly, but the work is taking shape. I look forward to bringing more of it into the light this fall. Stay tuned!
July: Coming home
Peony and white lilac
Floral installation for the Summer Solstice
July Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
This July journal is arriving a little late, though somehow that feels fitting. The month has carried a slower, more inward rhythm for me, one that has asked for patience and rest rather than urgency.
The Cancer new moon for me invited thoughts of home, belonging, and the spaces that hold us. I’ve been working on a new website, settling into a new studio space, and shaping plans for the fall. All three feel deeply connected: different ways of creating a home for the work and imagining how it might be shared.
Mercury retrograde has added its familiar pauses and revisions. Instead of pushing for everything to be finished, I’ve been returning to ideas, reconsidering details, and allowing things to take their time. There is something reassuring about remembering that not every season is meant for moving quickly. Some are for listening, rearranging, and beginning again with greater clarity.
Cancer Season
Cancer Season
The flowers of July have reflected this mood beautifully.
Large alliums have brought height and quiet structure, while smoke bush has softened arrangements with its hazy clouds of color.
Sunflowers have carried the unmistakable warmth of summer. Around them, I pair asparagus fern, chicory, scabiosa, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, and fennel so it adds movement and delicacy, loose, airy textures that feel gathered rather than overly composed.
Leo Season arriving…
Leo Season
As we move into Leo season and toward the Aquarius full moon, the energy feels ready to open outward again. Leo brings warmth, creativity, and the courage to be seen, while Aquarius offers a wider view, an invitation to imagine new possibilities and more meaningful ways of connecting.
Perhaps that is where I find myself now: still tending to the quieter foundations, but beginning to look up and outward. I am making room for the studio to become a gathering place, for the website to tell a fuller story, for the floral subscriptions to bring the changing seasons into other people’s homes or businesses and for larger botanical installations to unfold in unexpected places.
Stay tuned for more installations at Eleventh Hour Art.
June: Fire that carries us into summer…
Peony and white lilac
Floral Ritual subscription
June Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
I realized that I am very late in posting my June journal, apologies!
June arrived on the heels of a full moon in Sagittarius, a moon of truth, movement, expansion, and vision. On this night of the Sagittarius full moon, I found myself in a rose garden, surrounded by women who seemed to embody the energy of the earth itself.
These women were powerful, natural, intuitive, and deeply connected to the wisdom of Mother Earth. There was a groundedness in the way they spoke, but also a fire, a sense of knowing, seeking, and becoming. The conversation moved easily between the mystical and the practical, the feminine and the masculine, the seen and the unseen.
Under the light of the Sagittarius moon, our words felt alive. We shared stories, ideas, truths, and the things we are calling into our lives. There was something beautiful about sitting together in that garden, held by roses, nature, and moonlight, speaking honestly about what we want to manifest and what we are ready to release.
Sagittarius is a sign of expansion, truth, and vision, and that evening felt like all of those things at once. It reminded me how powerful it is when women gather with intention, when we listen to one another, reflect one another, and give voice to the dreams that are beginning to take shape.
After the deep emotional shedding of spring, this full moon felt like a match being struck. A reminder that clarity does not always arrive quietly, sometimes it comes as a flash of honesty, sometimes it comes through the body, sometimes it comes through flowers, reaching, bending, opening, moving toward the light without apology.
Gemini season duality, curiosity, untamed, full of conversation…
Gemini season
As we move into June, Gemini season continues to stir the air. Gemini is the sign of conversation, curiosity, duality, and change. It reminds us that we can hold more than one truth at once. We can be soft and strong, rooted and restless, tender and electric and we can be in the middle of becoming and still be whole.
In the studio, this energy has been showing up in my arrangements: airy stems, mirrored shapes, unexpected pairings, flowers that seem to be speaking to one another. Gemini season always feels like a conversation between opposites, the wild and the refined, the fresh and the dried, the fleeting and the lasting.
This month, I am thinking about flowers as messengers, some arrive for only a moment; peonies, irises, sweet peas, eremurus, roses. They ask us to pay attention before they pass, others dry slowly and stay with us, changing form but not disappearing. This is one of the lessons I return to again and again in my work: beauty does not have to end when something changes, sometimes it becomes more interesting, more refined, more honest.
People “Where the Wild Things Are” installation
Where the Wild Things Are
A floral installation for Yvonne Najor’s Where the Wild Things Are-inspired baby shower, which was featured in People.
Designing florals for this celebration felt like stepping inside a storybook, one where motherhood, friendship, wildness, and wonder all met in the same room. The theme was nostalgic, playful, and full of life. I wanted the flowers to feel wild, textural, just out of a jungle. Congratulations Yvonne!
Summer Solstice Event at Eleventh Hour Art
Join us for the Summer Solstice
Join us for an evening of ritual, art, sound, and community to celebrate the Summer Solstice. The evening begins with a Flower Essence Ritual led by Christina Pagano of Bird Song and Blossom, flowing into collaborative mandala making and a sound bath for integration with Melanie Adams of Electric Lady Florals and artist Robin Kang. Robin will also share about her recent journey to Peru and the sacred textile traditions of the Quechua weavers she works alongside. The evening opens up from there — browse handmade goods, get a tarot reading with Amy Schimel of Myth and Ritual Healing or an astrology reading with Ashley Taylor, and connect over refreshments. Readings are priced separately - $25 per reading.
If you'd like to partake in all activities, please arrive by 4:30pm.
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May: Month of Truth
Taurus Astro Arrangement
May Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
May arrived with a full moon in Scorpio, deep, illuminating, and impossible to ignore.
It felt like the kind of moon that pulls the hidden things to the surface. The truths we have been circling, the feelings we have tucked away, the places in our lives that are asking not just to be seen, but to be transformed.
I have been thinking about truth in relation to flowers.
Flowers never pretend! They open when they are ready, they wilt when they are finished, they bruise when they have been handled too roughly, they turn toward light, they tell us exactly where they are in their cycle. Bud, bloom, decay, seed, there is something deeply honest about that.
May is Taurus season, and Taurus asks us to return to the body, to the earth, to beauty, to pleasure, to what is real. Taurus is the hand in the soil, the table set with intention, the scent of peonies opening in a warm room, the slow unfolding of something that cannot be rushed.
This month I am working with flowers that feel deeply connected to May’s language of truth, beauty, and transformation: Lily of the Valley, peonies, irises, fritillaria and lilac.
Lily of the Valley feels like a tiny bell of renewal. Delicate, fragrant, and quietly powerful. It speaks to sweetness, protection, humility, and the return of happiness.
Peonies are May’s great love letter: lush, romantic, fleeting, and impossibly generous. They arrive tightly held, then open into abundance, reminding us that timing is everything.
Irises bring a sense of intuition and message. Named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, they feel like a bridge between worlds, elegant, architectural, and quietly mystical.
Fritillaria adds a more unusual, shadowy beauty. With its nodding heads and checkered pattern, it feels secretive and otherworldly, a perfect flower for the Scorpio undercurrent of the month.
Lilac carries memory, tenderness, and the ache of spring. Its fragrance is nostalgic and almost cinematic, reminding us how scent can bring the past into the present in an instant.
Together, these materials feel like May itself: soft but strong, fragrant but fleeting, romantic but truthful.
Beltane Celebration
May Collaborations:
May also opened with a celebration of Beltane, the ancient seasonal festival that marks the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, a time of fertility, fire, creativity, pleasure, and manifestation.
Together with Good Standing Official, we gathered to honor the turning of the season with flowers, astrology, food, and ritual. We were joined by Lucy Owen from Taos, New Mexico, who offered beautiful insight into the meaning of Beltane, how to celebrate it, and how to work with this potent seasonal energy for manifestation.
There was something deeply moving about gathering in community at this threshold moment. Electric Lady Florals gave a demo on flower crowns. The flower crowns felt especially symbolic: small wearable altars, woven with beauty, intention, and the wild energy of the season. To place flowers on the head is to crown ourselves with what is blooming, to honor creativity, sensuality, softness, and becoming.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Women’s Luncheon, Lily of the Valley mini bouquets
Brooklyn Bridge Park Women’s Luncheon
On May 1, I was honored to create Lily of the Valley mini bouquets for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Women’s Lunch: The Shared Table, an afternoon celebrating food, hospitality, culture, and the power of gathering. The conversation brought together Alison Roman, Ashley Coiffard of L’Appartement 4F, and Clare de Boer of Stissing House, moderated by Dee Poku-Spalding, founder and CEO of The WIE Suite. The event supported Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new Education Center and centered on the ways food, community, and stewardship shape how we gather.
Lily of the Valley felt like the perfect flower for the moment.
Mother’s Day Morning at Harris Home
Mother’s Day Morning at Harris Home
This Mother’s Day morning, Electric Lady Florals will be gathering at Harris Home from 9 AM–1 PM with seasonal bouquets, grab-and-go flowers, and a small floral workshop, surrounded by antiques, vintage finds, and local artisan gifts, the morning will be a ritual celebration for all to join.
Preorder bouquets will be available, along with a limited number of flowers for walk-ins.
This feels like the perfect Taurus-season gathering: flowers, objects with history, handmade offerings, and thoughtful gifts for the mothers, mother figures, friends, and women who nurture us.
Mother’s Day Bouquets
April: The Season of Opening
Electric Lady photo shoot
April Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
Spring doesn’t arrive all at once, it unfolds.
I don’t know what it is about April, but it always arrives with a kind of force.
As if all the doors and windows open at once, and a rush of fresh air comes pouring in.
Maybe it’s April Fool’s Day that pulls us into a more playful rhythm.
Or maybe it’s the shift in light, the undeniable feeling that something has begun again.
This is the moment in the year when everything starts to move.
This year opened under the Libra full moon, a moment that called for balance, beauty, and reflection. A quiet pause before everything begins to lift, and then, almost instantly, the energy changes.
The first warm days sweep us off our feet ! It feels like freedom !
Suddenly there are endless possibilities: flowers, events, gardens, openings, everything blooming all at once. The senses feel flooded with color, scent, and texture and somehow, by the second week, there is already a need to pause and catch up with it all.
April carries both momentum and overwhelm.
Movement and stillness.
Fire and softness.
Aries Astro Bouquet
April projects
This month, I’ve been working on an outdoor floral sculpture for a client’s terrace, an exposed, windy space with very little sunlight. The intention has been to create something grounded and enduring, using wisteria branches, moss-covered limbs, and preserved moss from my previous installation.
It’s a quieter kind of work. More sculptural than floral.
I found myself thinking about line, repetition, and restraint, allowing the form to hold its own presence in the space.
Terrace sculpture
April Collaborations
I’m also excited to share that Harris Homes BK, a vintage wares shop opened in my neighborhood recently.
Katherine, the owner, has such an incredible eye, her style feels both effortless and intentional. I will be selling bouquets there on most weekends, and we’re currently planning a special pop-up together for Earth Day. More to come on that soon.
A Seasonal Invitation
At the market, the shift is undeniable now, the abundance has arrived.
I’ve been drawn to calla lilies lately, I love them for Easter and Passover. They are strong, sculptural, long-lasting, with such a delicate, almost quiet face. They pair beautifully with branches of forsythia, creating that balance between structure and wildness.
Tulips are everywhere right now, in the most electric colors. They’re still one of my absolute favorites, the way they move, stretch, and continue to open feels almost alive in your hands.
For scent, I’ve been layering in hyacinth, rich and unmistakable, or weaving in strands of jasmine vine, letting it run and twist through arrangements like a soft thread of perfume.
For my more bold, fire-forward Aries clients, I’m still drawn to pincushion protea in vibrant orange, and poppies in every shade, flowers that feel expressive, a little wild, a little untamed.
And then there are the quieter notes, daffodils standing tall in soft whites, yellows, and oranges, and of course, cherry blossoms, fleeting and impossibly beautiful. If you can, make time to visit Brooklyn Botanic Garden this month, or even take a trip to Washington, D.C. to experience them in full bloom. They never last long, and that’s part of their magic.
April always feels like a study in contrast, movement and stillness, overwhelm and beauty, fire and softness.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, the flowers find their way.
I offer floral installations and subscriptions for homes and businesses, both indoor and outdoor.
You can inquire through my website, or explore my seasonal offerings, including the Aries Astro Bouquet, designed to channel this moment of bold, expressive energy.
Pincushions + tulips, vessel by @_pleasetouchme_
March: Listening for Spring
March Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
Before the season changes, the flowers begin to whisper.
March always feels like standing in a doorway between seasons. Winter still lingers in the cool air, but the light has begun to change. At the flower market, the first true signs of spring are quietly appearing, tulips stretching upward, delicate butterfly ranunculus catching the light, and the bright faces of daffodils returning after the long winter months.
This time of year carries a particular energy of transition. The earth begins to wake, the astrological year prepares to turn, and something within us also begins to stir.
Last week, under the full moon eclipse, I gathered with a circle of women for an evening of reflection at Eleventh Hour Art during The Art of Healing, hosted by my friends Deena & Linsey from Surround Society. The night held a particular intensity, a kind of energetic shaking that felt both grounding and electric at the same time.
As we sat together in reflection, I could feel a vibration moving through the room. It was as if something old was loosening its hold so that something lighter could emerge.
Eclipses have a way of doing that, they shift us!
Moments like these remind me how interconnected my creative work has become with the symbolic languages that guide it: flowers, astrology, and tarot. Each one speaks to cycles of transformation.
Tarot mirrors the archetypal stories we move through in our lives.
Astrology maps the rhythms of the cosmos.
Flowers embody the quiet wisdom of the earth.
A flower opens when conditions are right.
A tarot card appears when we need a message.
A planetary shift arrives to move us forward.
In my floral practice, I often feel like I’m working within these same patterns, arranging materials that are alive, temporary, and expressive of a moment in time. A bouquet becomes a small landscape of a season.
Pisces Astro Bouquet
International Women’s Month
I recently attended a book event at Rachel Comey’s Smith Street location. The evening brought together a room full of artists, writers, and creative thinkers sharing stories about their work and their lives. I had the pleasure of meeting painter Madeline Donahue, whose work explores the layered experience of motherhood and identity with honesty and depth. I also met writer Amil Niazi, whose memoir Life After Ambition was discussed that evening. Her reflections on motherhood and ambition added another thoughtful dimension to the conversation.
Listening to artists speak about their process and the stories behind their work always reminds me how many different forms creativity can take.
Walking home that night, I kept thinking about the energy that emerges when women gather together in a room like that. When artists support and witness one another’s work, a quiet momentum begins to build.
Madeline’s design for Amil’s book cover stayed with me. Its colors and spirit subtly inspired the florals I created this month for the Rachel Comey Smith Street window.
In many ways, flowers live in that same space for me. They are another form of expression, another way of translating feeling into something visual and alive.
Creativity is not separate from life, it is life!
Rachel Comey Smith Street florals inspired by Madeline Donahue art
Spring Equinox fast approaching
As we move through March, I can feel the approach of the Spring Equinox, the moment in the seasonal calendar when day and night briefly come into balance before the light begins to stretch longer again. The equinox always feels like a quiet turning point.
Winter asks us to slow down and reflect, but the equinox signals movement. The earth begins to wake and reach toward the sun once again.
In the studio this month I’ve been working with tulips, butterfly ranunculus, fern heads, pincushion protea, anemones, and daffodils, each one carrying its own expression of early spring.
Tulips feel alive in the most literal sense. Even after they are cut, their stems continue to grow and bend toward the light, subtly shifting the shape of an arrangement from day to day.
Butterfly ranunculus feel almost weightless, their delicate petals catching the light like small wings opening.
The curled fern heads are one of my favorite early signs of the season, spiraling slowly outward as if they are remembering how to grow again.
Pincushion protea bring a spark of energy, their vibrant structures like small suns tucked among softer blooms.
Anemones draw you inward with their deep centers, like tiny night skies surrounded by petals.
And daffodils, with their bright yellow faces, always feel like the clearest announcement that winter is ending.
Flowers are often the first to tell us that something is changing.
This seasonal shift is mirrored in the sky as well. As March unfolds, we move through the closing days of Pisces season, the final sign of the zodiac, associated with intuition, imagination, and reflection. Soon we step into Aries season, which marks the beginning of the astrological year and brings a shift toward fire, movement, and new beginnings. It is the year of the fire horse, this should be a spectacular Aries season!
This transition has been inspiring the Astro Bouquets I’ve been creating, arrangements that explore the relationship between flowers and the symbolic language of the zodiac.
The Pisces bouquet reflects the dreamy, intuitive nature of water, incorporating soft, flowing flowers like butterfly ranunculus and anemones. It feels gentle and poetic, like the quiet end of a long story before the next chapter begins.
The Aries bouquet celebrates the bold spark of the astrological new year with vibrant, electric-colored flowers such as tulips and pincushion protea. It carries a feeling of emergence, the first flame of spring and the courage to begin again.
As the Spring Equinox draws closer, I keep returning to the idea of balance, the meeting point between rest and renewal, darkness and light.
The eclipse reminded me that transformation rarely happens all at once. It arrives in subtle shifts, quiet conversations, and gatherings that stay with us long after the evening ends.
Flower of the Month — Butterfly Ranunculus
One of the flowers that always signals the arrival of early spring for me is the butterfly ranunculus. Their delicate, translucent petals catch the light in a way that almost makes them appear to glow. Unlike the dense layers of traditional ranunculus, these blooms feel lighter and more airy, opening gently as the days grow longer.
In many ways they embody the energy of early spring, soft, hopeful, and quietly unfolding.
I like to use these beauties in all of my arrangements. They make the arrangements feel light, airy, whimsical, with a pisces vibe.
A Seasonal Invitation
As the Spring Equinox approaches and the light slowly returns, you might take a moment to notice the first signs of the season around you, a cluster of daffodils on a street corner, the way tulips lean toward the sun, or the soft unfurling of new leaves.
Spring rarely arrives all at once. It appears gradually, one quiet signal at a time.
Take notice on your daily outings, snap photos, smell the beautiful scents in the air.
Spring is my favorite time of year, so exciting to watch all the blooms happen!
Aries Astro Bouquet
January & February: Love Through the Hands
January - setting intentions, building, working with grounding materials
The idea of ultimate love has been lingering with me this month. Love, not as something we strive for or protect, but something we surrender into. When we loosen our grip, love expands naturally.
This understanding feels deeply aligned with January’s work, and with the wisdom of the snake. The snake sheds what once protected it the moment it no longer fits. There is no drama or judgment in the shedding, only instinct, trust, and release.
I’ve felt this energy move through my hands as I’ve been designing throughout Capricorn season.
Pine branches have become the core of many January arrangements, and I just love the scent around my workspace. Quince branches, tight buds, create patience waiting for them to bloom. Protea brings strength and presence, while amaryllis open slowly, revealing themselves over days, and thistle, with its soft armor, has felt especially symbolic this month, resilience paired with tenderness.
These are not fleeting flowers, these are flowers that ask to be lived with over time.
I design January arrangements with longevity in mind, choosing stems that evolve, dry beautifully, or reveal themselves gradually. As petals fall and forms shift, they remind us that release is not loss, it’s an opening.
February, Lunar New Year Shedding of the Snake
As January deepens, this work of release begins to take shape beyond my studio.
February quickly arrives in celebration of the Lunar New Year, I am working at Eleventh Hour Art on a floral installation exploring transition, shedding, and renewal. Lunar New Year marks a collective threshold, a moment to close one energetic cycle and prepare for the next.
The image of the snake, shedding its skin to move freely, has been guiding this work. The installation echos January’s invitation to soften, trust, make space, set intentions so when the fire horse arrives we can set all in motion.
As we move toward the fire and momentum of the Horse, this shedding becomes essential. We cannot carry our old skins into new motion.
Flowers that endure
This same intention lives in how I’m thinking about flowers these months.
Some arrangements are meant to bloom and disappear, others are meant to endure. Forever Bouquets hold flowers that have already completed their cycle, a reminder that beauty doesn’t require urgency.
Alongside them, January Astro Bouquets are created as living rituals, grounded in Capricorn’s structure, opening into Aquarius’ vision, and designed to stay with you throughout the months. They are intentionally simple, intuitive, and made to shift, dry, and change as you do.
Together, these offerings through January & February: the Lunar New Year installation, the Forever bouquet, astro florals, and the flowers themselves become quiet companions for a season of shedding. Invitations to release without force, to love without armor, and to step forward into February lighter than before.
December: Winter Solstice, Amaryllis & Paperwhites
The days grow shorter, the nights longer, and the world feels quieter — as if nature itself is holding its breath.
At the heart of December lies the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year and a powerful turning point. This is the moment when darkness reaches its peak — and then, slowly, almost imperceptibly, light begins to return. For centuries, cultures have marked this time with candles, evergreen boughs, ritual, and reflection. It’s less about celebration and more about intention.
Flowers that bloom in December carry this same energy — resilient, luminous, and deeply symbolic. Two of my favorites are Amaryllis and Paperwhites.
Amaryllis: Strength, Beauty & Becoming
Amaryllis is unapologetically bold.
Its tall, sculptural stem rises from a dormant bulb, often blooming indoors, there is something quietly radical about that.
Symbolism of Amaryllis
Strength and determination
Inner beauty & Pride
Creative confidence
Rising after rest
Love & Passion
In December, amaryllis reminds us that growth doesn’t require noise or urgency. Sometimes it happens slowly, in stillness, out of sight — until one day it arrives fully formed. I often think of amaryllis as a flower of personal becoming, perfect for the solstice season when we are reflecting on what we’re calling in for the year ahead.
I like to place my amaryllis bulb in a mason jar just touching some water, then place on a window sill to watch it grow and bloom over time. It’s a great way to spend my December / January depending on when I get started, at the end I have this beautiful flower that I cut and place in a beautiful clear vase.
Amaryllis
Paperwhites: Light, Rebirth, Good Fortune
Paperwhites are deeply nostalgic for many of us. Their scent alone can transport you — kitchen counters, winter windowsills, bowls of stones and water waiting patiently for something to emerge.
Symbolism of Paperwhites
Hope and Renewal
Purity and Respect
New Beginnings
Good Fortune
Unlike many flowers, paperwhites don’t ask for much. No soil, no sun — just water and time. In December, they teach us about trust. You plant the bulb, and then you wait. And even in the darkest weeks of the year, they bloom — fragrant, delicate, luminous.
I love paperwhites as a reminder that beauty can be gentle and fleeting, and that ritual doesn’t need to be elaborate to be meaningful.
For Hanukah this symbolizes light and rebirth, a great Christmas holiday gift representing hope and light during the season and for the Chinese New Year, a gift of good fortune.
Paperwhites
Winter Solstice as Flower Ritual
The Winter Solstice invites us to slow down and reflect:
What am I releasing from this past year?
What do I want to nurture as light returns?
Where can I allow rest instead of forcing growth?
Bringing amaryllis or paperwhites into your space during this time becomes more than decoration — it becomes a living ritual. Light a candle at dusk. Tend your flowers. Notice the subtle shifts day by day. Let them mirror what’s happening within you.