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Calendula flower

Starry Night Focaccia with Summer Blossoms (Vegan)

🌼 ~ beric and his flower

A hot, dry summer was tough on plants and people, but it was a grand season for flower crab spiders. All of these, and many of their fancy friends, were in the back yard in early September.

Cochise County, Arizona, September 2023.

Plant of the Day

Monday 25 March 2024

The rapidly growing annual or biennial Calendula officinalis (common marigold, goldins, Jack-on-horseback, Mary's gold, pot marigold, Scotch marigold, souvenir, yellow goldes, marybuds) can be found flowering all year round, especially in a mild winter. The leaves have distinctive aromatic leaves.

Jill Raggett

Pot Marigold (Calendula)

Nerea, the resin witch One of the many commissions I have pending.

Calendula officinalis (pot marigold) and Megachilidae (leafcutter bee)

Pot marigolds are originally from Southern Europe and they've been cultivated for thousands of years, not only as a pretty flower but also as a medicinal herb. Marigolds were used extensively in ancient Roman, Greek, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisines and extracts were also used in dyes and cosmetics. The 'pot' in pot marigold refers to a cooking pot.

Leafcutter bees can be a little hard to identify from the top but if they stick their abdomen up in the air (photo 4) you can see the specialized hairs called scopa which they use to store pollen. If these bees start chewing holes in you garden plants, insecticides won't do any good. Leafcutter bees don't eat leaves - they use them as building material for their ground nests. Like any self-respecting bee, leafcutter bees go straight for the nectar and pollen, and show absolutely zero interest in the salad menu.

my oneshot lancer oc has a calendula... made it figure skater inspired and whatnot :-)

some gouaches of my baby plants

It’s november and calendula is still hanging around mygarden

Calendula Officinalis (1781) by Mary Delany (1700-1788).

Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour on black ink background.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

A fresh design straight from the RKF foundries, this mass-production model of the RKF Calendula has seen a few deployments in the Atlas Line as a spec-ops frame.