Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) bloomed early this year, in the first days of April.

A blossom in Calendula officinalis. Spoiler: It will spread into a bright yellow flower.

Late winter brings more light hours and new growth in my Artemisia plants.
Top left: Wormwood, A. absynthium
Top right: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (from German seeds)
Bottom left: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (adopted from a wild plant near my house)
Bottom right: Southernwood, A. abrotanum

A rose bush, spreading her claws; a beautiful plant even before she grows a single flower.

A winter visitor, the stick insect, chilling on a comfrey leaf. The elegant and discreet structure of head and eyes (you really don't want these to be obvious if you're pretending to be something with no head and no eyes) is pretty amazing.

The biggest wasp spider (Argiope bruennischi) I've ever seen, weaving a one foot wide web in a rosemary plant.

The caterpillar of a Yellow Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) a day before starting the coccoon. Two or three lays of eggs hatched on my rue plants, which are apparently one of their favorite meals.

The unique metallic shine of Persian Shield leaves, Strobilanthes dyerianus.

Aeonium arboreum, from green to purple (from chlorophyll to anthocyanins) in a somewhat tryptaminic unfolding rosette of leaves under the sun. The genus name comes from the Greek αιώνιος, aiónion: everliving.

Drosera is the genus of the sundew plants, and also their name in French and Italian. From the Greek δρόσος, drósos, dew. In Latin books about herbs, the plant was called Ros solis, Dew of the Sun.

Note that the red extensions are not trichomes; they are tentacles.

Arguably a perfectly shaped red chili pepper, after a late summer storm.

A beautiful five ribs symmetry in the Bolivian torch cactus, Trichocereus bridgesii a.k.a. Echinopsis lageniformis.

Mandragora autumnalis leaves sprout from the root, woken up by rain and the first signs of fall.

This little Crab Spider (likely a male) made himself very comfortable inside of a fragrant Datura metel flower.

Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea

The Sumerians normally recognized Inana as a goddess of the skies and a sister of the sun-god, Utu. Yet she frequently pays a visit to the underworld of her sister, Ereshkigal, in the aquatic domains of Uruk and Eridu (i.e., near Ur and Eden of Sumerian myths (...) In this respect her physical attributes and mythic activities seem to mirror the morphic and behavioral characteristics of her cherished plant; for Inana is intimately associated with aquatic environments, a primeval tree of creation, the cyclic occurrence of vegetative life, and ornaments of gold and lapis lazuli (i.e., the natural colors of the Egyptian lotus). She displays her adornments in the heavens and discards them from her body when she descends into the bowels of the Earth (presumably on an annual basis), much as a lotus blossom. Inana was occasionally identified as none other than Ishtar of Babylon and Assyria or as Ashtarte, Ashtoreth, Asherah or Anat of Canaan and Egypt, all of whom share close iconographic relations with the sacred lotus.

J. Andrew McDonald, Botanical Determination of the Middle East Tree of Life

Photo taken in Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava, Tenerife