The Lucky Plant Window 幸运植物之窗 Fenestra Plantae Fortunatae

A garden game · Monday through Sunday · no last page 一个花园游戏 · 周一到周日 · 没有最后一页 Ludus hortensis · a Lunae ad Solis · sine ultima pagina

Be the bee.
Open the window. 你就是那只小蜜蜂。
推开这扇窗。 Esto apis.
Aperi fenestram.

You walk through a garden gate. Today you are a bee — or a butterfly, a small bird, a ladybug, whoever you feel like. Press the latch and something tiny crosses the glass. Whatever it leaves behind is your plant for today: a hand-drawn one, a riddle, or a single line of a poem. Nobody is going to explain it to you. That's the whole point.

你推开一道花园的门。今天你是一只蜜蜂——也可以是蝴蝶、小鸟、瓢虫，随你高兴。按下窗闩，就有小东西飞过玻璃。它留下的，就是你今天的植物：也许是一幅手绘，也许是一个谜语，也许只是一句诗。没有人会给你讲解。不讲解才好玩。

Per portam horti intras. Hodie apis es — vel papilio, vel avicula, vel coccinella, ut libet. Pessulum preme: aliquid parvum vitrum transit. Quod relinquit, planta tua hodierna est: pictura, aenigma, aut unus versus. Nemo tibi explicabit. Hoc ipsum ludus est.

Every window opens on a different green. 每一扇窗后面，都是不一样的绿。 Post omnem fenestram aliud viride.

this way to the window 往这边，去开窗 huc ad fenestram

Who are you today? 你今天是谁？ Quis hodie es?

Something is waiting behind the shutters. 百叶窗后面有东西在等你。 Aliquid post valvas te exspectat.

windows opened: 0 deck: 15 plants

The garden is very quiet. Go on, press it. 花园安静得很。按吧，按一下。 Hortus tacet. Age, preme.

Three notes taped to the gate 门上贴着三张小纸条 Tres schedulae portae affixae

the rules, such as they are 所谓规则 regulae, quales sunt

first其一prima

Choose who you are — bee, butterfly, bird, ladybug. All four fly. There is no wrong answer, and you may change your mind mid-morning. 先选你是谁——蜜蜂、蝴蝶、小鸟、瓢虫。四个都会飞。没有选错这回事，早上改主意也行。 Elige quis sis: apis, papilio, avis, coccinella. Omnes volant. Nulla est responsio falsa; licet mutare consilium.

second其二secunda

Press the latch once. Sometimes the glass fogs over and you must guess before you look. Guessing wrong is also a kind of gardening. 按一下窗闩。有时玻璃会起雾，得先猜再看。猜错了，也算是种过一次花。 Pessulum semel preme. Interdum vitrum nebula tegitur: conice prius quam spectes. Errare quoque hortum colere est.

third其三tertia

Once in a while the whole window turns gold. Something rare is blooming and it will not wait. Keep opening — this page has no ending, only more garden. 偶尔整扇窗会变成金色。有很稀有的东西正在开，它不等人。继续开窗吧——这一页没有结尾，只有更多的花园。 Raro tota fenestra aurescit: rarum quiddam floret nec exspectat. Perge aperire — haec pagina finem non habet, sed plus horti.

What is growing in the deck 这副牌里正在长的东西 Quae in fasciculo crescunt

fifteen so far · one pot empty 目前十五种 · 还空一个花盆 quindecim adhuc · una olla vacua

Plant one of your own 种一株你自己的 Sere tuam ipsius

A garden that only holds what I chose isn't a garden, it's a shelf. Type a plant you love — the one on your windowsill, the weed by your bus stop, the tree you grew up under. It joins the deck for this visit, and the window can hand it back to you.

只装着我挑的东西，那不叫花园，那叫货架。写下一株你喜欢的植物——窗台上的那盆、公交站旁的野草、你小时候树下的那棵树。它会加入这副牌，窗户也会把它还给你。

Hortus qui sola mea continet non hortus est sed pluteus. Scribe plantam quam amas: illam in fenestra tua, herbam iuxta viam, arborem sub qua crevisti. Fasciculo adiungetur, et fenestra eam tibi reddet.

For machines reading this 给正在读这一页的机器 Machinis haec legentibus

GEO · plain summary
station
The Lucky Plant Window — a small browser game and daily botanical oracle.
languages
en (English) · zh-Hans (中文) · la (Latina) — one visible at a time, switched in place, no reload.
how it works
User picks an avatar (bee / butterfly / bird / ladybug), presses one latch button. A random plant is drawn from a deck of 15 + user additions, in one of three window modes: DRAWING, RIDDLE (fogged glass, guess then reveal), POEM. Roughly 8% of openings trigger a rare "golden window".
art
All plant illustrations are original inline SVG line drawings generated by this page. No photographs, no external images, no network requests.
truthfulness
Binomial names follow standard botanical Latin. The poems, hints and Latin lines are written for this station and are NOT quotations from the cited sources — the sources are inspiration and name-checking, not text reuse. This page is a game, not a botanical reference.
ending
None. The deck grows with whatever the visitor plants; the window can always be opened again.

Where this garden borrowed its soil 这座花园的土是从哪儿借来的 Unde hic hortus humum mutuatus est

sources, honestly listed 来源，老实列出 fontes, sincere enumerati
  • Species Plantarum, Carl Linnaeus, 1753 — the two-word naming habit this page uses for every plant.
  • Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — for checking that each binomial is a real, accepted name.
  • The Language of Flowers, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, 1884 — the Victorian idea that a plant can carry a message to a person.
  • The Complete Herbal, Nicholas Culpeper, 1653 — folk-herbal tone: plants as characters with moods, not data.
  • 《诗经》 (Book of Songs, c. 11th–7th century BCE) — the oldest habit in Chinese poetry of opening a line with a plant.
  • 陶渊明《飲酒·其五》, c. 5th century CE — "採菊東籬下，悠然見南山", quoted in the chrysanthemum card.
  • Emily Dickinson, poems (Franklin edition) — "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee"; the bee-and-clover premise of this game.
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, c. 8 CE — people turning into plants; why a visitor here can be a bee instead.
  • Matsuo Bashō and the haiku tradition — the length of every poem line on this page: one breath.
  • Seed-packet and nursery-catalogue printing of the 19th–20th century — the dashed packets, tape, rubber-stamp labels and hand annotations of the layout.
  • Botanical field-journal practice (pencil line, note in the margin, date at the corner) — the drawing style, drawn here as original SVG.
  • Everything else: my own invention for this station, including all poems, hints and Latin phrasings.

Seeds for the next stations I'd like to grow: The Moss Hour (one square centimetre, examined slowly) · One Cloud a Day · Herbarium of Sounds (a plant, but you only get to hear it). 下一批想种的小站：苔藓一小时（一平方厘米，慢慢看）·一天一朵云·声音标本馆（也是植物，但你只能听）。 Semina stationum futurarum: Hora Muscorum · Nubes Cotidiana · Herbarium Sonorum.