Poinsettias are autochthonous to Guatemala and Mesoamerica so they can be grown in gardens either by design or as wild intruders as well as in the fields as wild plants. In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, or simply as…
As I have shared with you before, flores de Pascua or pascuas, are the most popular Christmas floral displays. Poinsettias are also …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pascuas for poinsettias. Scientific name: Euphorbia pulcherrima or Poinsetia. As I have mentioned …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pascuas for Poinsettias. With each passing year, poinsettia growers develop new colors and …
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pascuas for poinsettias. Everywhere you walk in and around Antigua Guatemala you will find …
For being such a tiny country Guatemala, it tops some lists, not all bad either. For instance, Guatemala is a top producer …
To get us into the mood of the Christmas season that can be felt everywhere in Guatemala now, here’s the first free …
In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, Flor de Noche Buena or simply Pascuas. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala and …
First wallpaper download for 2009 from La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP). You can browse the wallpaper category to get the other …
Manolo and Carmen were reminiscing just the other day about the smells associated with the Christmas season in Guatemala. Pine needles have a very peculiar smell and indeed its smell its burnt in the Guatemalan collective memory of Christmas and birthdays parties. Flor de Pascua or poinsettias are a visual cue of the upcoming Christmas as well. Shops know this and they use pine needle and poinsettias among other Christmas decorations to reel in the customers; it seems to be working just fine in this shop.
Everywhere you walk in Antigua Guatemala now you fill Christmas decorations. I captured today’s photo of the traditional posada lanterns and omnipresent …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pashte for Spanish moss. One of the most important organic decorations for the …
Take a photographic tour to see some plants blooming now: Dry Season Blossoms in Antigua Guatemala Blossoms From The Land of the …
Colorful poinsettias are the most popular Christmas decoration in and around Antigua Guatemala. Here you can see the vibrant scarlet bracts of …
You can sense the Christmas spirit already in and around La Antigua Guatemala, alright. From the processions, the convites, the town fairs, …
Well, if it is pascua season in Guatemala, you know what that means, right? As I had shared before, pascuas (Guatemala) and …
Poinsettias or Flor de Pascua are in full bloom in The Land of the Eternal Spring for the Christmas season. The most …
Pascuas (Guatemala) and Flor de Noche Buena (Mexico) are how poinsettias are known in Spanish. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala and Mexico …
Flor de Pascua, Flor de Noche Buena or simply Pascuas are how poinsettias are known in Guatemala. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala …
Pino is the name by which Guatemalans refer to the pine needles used as Christmas decorations, specifically, to spread around the floor …
In La Antigua Guatemala, religious celebrations draw together all kinds of heterogeneous people and the feast day of Virgin of Guadalupe is no exception. In the day of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe, you can find gringa mamas, indigenous mamas, ladino mamas and white mamas all taking their children dressed with indigenous clothes to visit the altar of La Virgen Morena. In many cases you have grandmas and the whole family taking part of the visit to Virgin of Guadalupe inside Iglesia de la Merced.
Poinsettias or Flor de Pascua are in full bloom in The Land of the Eternal Spring for the Christmas season. Commercial decorations are beginning to show up in shops and restaurants. Soon enough we will have the Burning of the Devil celebrations, Nacimientos, Posadas and everything else that comes with the Christmas season. Soon, even the trees will dress for the holidays.
Last year, on the entry The Land of the Eternal Spring, I talked about the “undocumented alien” in our garden, the Flor de Pascua (poinsettias) which were not planted or maintained, yet it gave us those wonderful red flowers from October through March. Since then, we moved to another house in San Pedro Las Huertas, one of the neighborhoods of La Antigua Guatemala, which is next to a coffee plantation with lots of trees and birds (partners in crime). Well, I am happy to report yet another “undocumented alien” in our new garden by the name of Chicalote (Prickly Poppy or Argemone Mexicana), a sort desert weed (that’s right I said desert, remember La Antigua is located in a tropical country). Two days ago I presented you the chicalote’s flower in the entry Flora and Fauna working together. One thing many visitors to La Antigua Guatemala notice right away is the incredible number of exotic flowers and plants, many of which grow in the wild.
This is close-up view of the “undocumented alien” in my garden. I plan to have more strict rules for this migrant plants, …
This photo of a flor de pascua plant (Poinsettias) was taken in my garden, next to the driveway. I did not plant …
