Marigold Matins is a beautiful ceramic mug featuring original garden photography transformed into watercolor art — inspired by a bumblebee at work on a marigold in a coastal New Jersey pollinator garden, a flower whose story reaches back to the medieval altars of Mary.
The marigold was known in the Catholic tradition as Mary's Gold — a flower that bloomed at the times of the great Marian feast days and was laid at her feet as a humble offering. Humble, bright and inexhaustibly generous. A poor woman's flower. A flower that understood devotion. In the garden, the marigold asks for very little and gives everything it has — flowering abundantly through summer and deep into autumn, scattering its seeds like a blessing on the ground before it rests.
The bees find it immediately. They are at work before the world wakes, nose-down in the ruffled blooms, unhurried and purposeful. Matins is the first prayer of the day — sung before sunrise when everything is still quiet. In the garden, the bees were already there.
Wherever you garden, consider choosing plants that support your local pollinators — they ask for less and give the birds, bees and butterflies so much more.
Before the world wakes, the bees are already at prayer.
Sturdy white ceramic mug with colorful interior and handle.
11 oz: 3.79" tall, 3.25" diameter.
Part of the Sacred Garden Collection. Dove & Ink — where faith meets the natural world.
