Seona Anderson 12/02/2024 Seona Anderson 12/02/2024

OSIER

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, OSIER: I must upfill this osier cage of ours with baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. Osiers are valuable Willow species used for making baskets and for building.

Seona Anderson 03/02/2024 Seona Anderson 03/02/2024

LOCUSTS (Carob)

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, LOCUSTS (Carob): The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Carob beans are a sweet treat & famine food, and the basis for the gemstone & gold unit of measurement.

Seona Anderson 22/01/2024 Seona Anderson 22/01/2024

CYPRESS

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CYPRESS: Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees. Cypress trees are associated with death, but also with sweet smelling wood.

Seona Anderson 11/12/2023 Seona Anderson 11/12/2023

DATES

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DATES: your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. Dates were used in a range of sweet and savoury foods in Shakespeare’s work and also for punning. Read more about the ecology and history of dates.

Seona Anderson 10/12/2023 Seona Anderson 10/12/2023

ORANGE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ORANGE: You wear out a good forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a forset-seller. Read more about the ecology of Oranges and their place in Elizabethan England.

Seona Anderson 09/12/2023 Seona Anderson 09/12/2023

FIG

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FIG: O, excellent! I love long life more than figs. Read this short blog about the ecology and use of Figs in Shakespeare.

Seona Anderson 06/12/2023 Seona Anderson 06/12/2023

ALMOND

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ALMOND: the parrot will do more for an almond that he for a commodius drab.

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Seona Anderson 03/12/2023 Seona Anderson 03/12/2023

YEW

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, YEW: Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows of double-fatal yew against thy state.

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Seona Anderson 01/12/2023 Seona Anderson 01/12/2023

HOLLY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, HOLLY: Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

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Seona Anderson 29/11/2023 Seona Anderson 29/11/2023

ASPEN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ASPEN: O, had that monster seen those lily hands tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute.

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Seona Anderson 28/11/2023 Seona Anderson 28/11/2023

Chestnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CHESTNUT: a sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap and she munched and munched and munched.

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Seona Anderson 27/11/2023 Seona Anderson 27/11/2023

Walnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WALNUT: As jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his wife’s leman. #shakespearespecies #folio400 #NationalTreeWeek

Seona Anderson 25/11/2023 Seona Anderson 25/11/2023

PINE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PINE: You may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops and to make no noise when they are fretten with the gusts of heaven. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 17/11/2023 Seona Anderson 17/11/2023

Hazelnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, HAZEL: her chariot is an empty hazelnut… she gallops night by night through lovers’ brain and then they dream of love.

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Seona Anderson 12/11/2023 Seona Anderson 12/11/2023

OLIVE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, OLIVE: The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world shall bear the olive freely.

Seona Anderson 09/11/2023 Seona Anderson 09/11/2023

APPLE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, APPLE: An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart.

Seona Anderson 02/11/2023 Seona Anderson 02/11/2023

Oak

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, OAK: many strokes though with a little axe hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak