Le piante di Natale
Stella di Natale
Originaria delle zone tropicali, questa pianta è arrivata solo di recente da noi ma già viene considerata un simbolo di buona fortuna. In realtà, quelle colorate di rosso (ora si possono acquistare anche varietà colorate diversamente) sono foglie e non fiori. I fiori si possono notare all'apice dei rametti, ma sono piuttosto piccoli e insignificanti. Essendo tossica, bisogna fare attenzione a non mettere in bocca nessuna parte di questa pianta e non toccare gli occhi con il lattice che cola dalle foglie e dai rami rotti.

Canzoni di Natale
Jingle bells
Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh 
Through the fields we go Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.

Chorus: Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh,
O Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.

A day or two ago I thought I'd take a ride 
and soon Miss Fanny Bright Was seated by my side; 
The horse was lean and lank Misfortune seemed his lot, 
We ran into a drifted bank and there we got upsot.

Chorus: Jingle bells...

A day or two ago, the story I must tell I went out on the snow and on my back I fell; a gent was riding by In a one-horse open sleigh He laughed at me as I there sprawling laid But quickly drove away. 

Chorus: Jingle bells...

Now the ground is white, Go it while you're young, Take the girls along and sing this sleighing song. Just bet a bob-tailed bay, Two-forty as his speed, Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack! You'll take the lead.

Chorus: Jingle bells...