Beltane meets the Full Flower Moon this year, both peaking on Friday 1st May, a rare alignment of fire and bloom, desire and becoming. A threshold moment in the pagan calendar, where fertility, creativity and the turning of the wheel feel especially close to the surface.

This botanical cast was gathered from my own garden: daisies for innocence and new beginnings, dandelions for resilience and wishes carried on the wind, buttercups for joy and childlike light, lily of the valley for the return of happiness, mountain cornflower for hope and devotion, lilac for first love and memory, lavender for calm and protection, yarrow leaf for healing and boundaries, alkanet for transformation, and hellebore seed heads for endings that promise renewal.

Pressed into clay and poured with crystacal plaster, stronger and finer than standard plaster, each flower’s fleeting form is held in lasting detail. Signed on the back and fitted with a hook, it hangs as a quiet relic of the season.

Woven together with the moon, these flowers become a symbol of cycles: what fades, what flourishes, and what returns in time. The hellebore in seed especially, a reminder of what has passed but will become again.

Rooted in flower lore and the language of flowers, this piece sits between botanical casting, ritual object and moon‑touched art, a small offering to the season of fire, growth and soft becoming.