Scents and Fragrances from Africa
This year my Forest Bride come forth and bloomed in all her fragrant glory. I have been waiting patiently and diligently carried buckets of water to keep it watered in the Summer’s heat. As it naturally grows in Summer rainfall area, I knew that if I wanted it to bloom abundantly, I had to keep it well watered, since here in the Cape it is the driest time of the year. [Read more...]
Calodendrum literally means a beautiful tree – kalos means beautiful, and dendron tree in Greek. I am reminded of the famous discourse between Diotima, a seeress and midwife from Mantinea in the Peloponessus, and Socrates; tes genneseos kai tou tokou en to kalo – Eros (love) is an easthetic desire, the passion for engendering and expressing the Beautiful. Perhaps one can say that the Cape Chestnut was created to remind us [Read more...]
