When Flora's spring equinox is almost ruined by a series of small mistakes, she has to find a way to turn things around and make her own magic. Flora's spring equinox activities don't go as planned. From paint spills to accidentally broken eggs, anger, frustration, and sadness almost ruin her day. Using grounding and breath work, Flora's able to calm her body and regulate her emotions to make the most of the start of the season. Celebrate the Wheel of the Year with Flora and her friends in Flora & The First Day of Spring, the first book from author Kathleen Converse's new sabbat series. This sweet and simple book includes a series of illustrated spells following the story as well as backmatter on spring equinox celebrations. Illustrated by Hanna Sultanova, Flora & the First Day of Spring will be the perfect addition to Ostara baskets for children growing up in nature-based households.

A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year. Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble and showy, Foraged Flora is a new vision for flowers and arranging. It encourages you to train your eye to the beauty that surrounds you, attune your senses to the seasonality and locality of flowers and plants, and to embrace the beauty in each stage of life, from first bud to withering seedpod. Organized by month, each chapter in this visually arresting and inspiring book focuses on large and small arrangements created from the flowers and plants available during that time period and in that place, all foraged or gleaned nearby. The authors reflect on surprising and beautiful pairings, the importance of scale, the scarcity or abundance of raw materials, and the environmental factors that contribute to that availability. Whether picking a small tendril of fragrant jasmine, collecting oversized branches of flowering quince, or making a garland of bay laurel, Foraged Flora is an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world.

Illustrated throughout in colour, this is a concise edition of Flora Britannica. It is organised thematically, rather than botanically and includes the personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.

Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a high-ranking Chinese government official in Guangxi, an experienced traveler, a keen observer, and a gifted writer. His observations on a wide range of subjects are always interesting and revealing, and constitute an important contribution to the literature on Song dynasty China’s frontier peoples. Originally written in direct, unadorned, and allusion-free classical Chinese prose, the complete and annotated English translation of Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea (Guihai yuheng zhi) captures its charm and significance.