Seona Anderson 26/05/2024 Seona Anderson 26/05/2024

COLUMBINE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, COLUMBINES: There’s fennel for you, and columbines. Columbines were found wild but also valued as garden plants in Shakespearean England.

Seona Anderson 24/05/2024 Seona Anderson 24/05/2024

CROWFLOWERS

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CROW FLOWERS: fantastic garlands did she make of crowflowers. Crowflowers are probably Ragged Robin, once a familiar wild flower of wet meadows.

Seona Anderson 19/05/2024 Seona Anderson 19/05/2024

PLANTAIN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PLANTAIN: Your plantain leaf is excellent for that…Your broken shin. Plantain was and is an excellent herbal medicine for wounds and other ailments.

Seona Anderson 14/05/2024 Seona Anderson 14/05/2024

PARSLEY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PARSLEY: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley. Parsley was both a herb and a medicine.

Seona Anderson 13/05/2024 Seona Anderson 13/05/2024

CAPER

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CAPER: Andrew: I can cut a caper. Toby: And I can cut the mutton to ‘t. Caper is both a dance and the edible flower bud of the Caper bush.

Seona Anderson 11/05/2024 Seona Anderson 11/05/2024

ROSEMARY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ROSEMARY: dry up your tears and stick your rosemary on this fair corse. Rosemary was used in funeral & marriage rites as well as in medicine and food.

Seona Anderson 02/04/2024 Seona Anderson 02/04/2024

(Fritillaria)

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, (Fritillaria); a purple flower sprung up, checkered with white. Shakespeare uses the new garden plant in an updated version of the Adonis myth of metamorphosis.

Seona Anderson 25/02/2024 Seona Anderson 25/02/2024

BALM

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, BALM: innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care…balm of hurt minds. Balm was grown widely in Shakespearean England as a medicinal plant.

Seona Anderson 14/02/2024 Seona Anderson 14/02/2024

DAMASK ROSE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DAMASK ROSE: Gloves as sweet as damask roses.