The Gathering Garden Magazine

Gomphrena carries a name borrowed from an ancient Greek myth about a flower that never existed, and a real history rooted 6,000 miles away in Central America and Southeast Asia. Both stories are worth knowing.

For over a thousand years, the Japanese have gathered under blooming cherry trees to mark the exact, fleeting moment beauty appears before it scatters. How that ritual shaped a small, gold-gilded wreath.