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William Shakespeare List

BOTANICAL NAME COMMON NAME SEASONAL INTEREST QUOTE Herbs

"While wormwood hath seed get a bundle or twain To save against March, to make flea to refrain. Where Chamber is swept and wormwood is strown, No flea for his life dare abide to be known. And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted Artemesia crab; And, when she drinks, against her lips I dracunculus Tarragon bob." -A Midsummer Night's Dream

"...for though the chamomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears." -King Chamomile nobilis Garden Camomile Henry IV

Lavandula "Here's flowers to you; Hot lavender, mints, angustifolia English Lavender savory, marjoram." - The Winter's Tale

"She was the sweet majoram of the salad." - Origanum vulgare Sweet Marjoram All's Well That End's Well

"There's for you, that's for remembrance; Pray you, love, remember" - Rosemary officinalis Rosemary

"Here's flowers for you; Hot Lavender, Mints, Satureja Savory Savory Marjoram." -Winter's Tale

"I know a bank wheron the wild thyme Thymus Thyme blows…" -A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Trees

"Crowned with the rank and fumitor and furrow - weeds, with burdocks, hemlocks, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel and all the idle weeds Tsuga Hemlock that grow in our sustaining corn." -

"And sometimes lurk I in a gossips bowl in very likeness of a roasted crab;" -A Malus Apple & Crabapple Midsummer Night's Dream

Roses

"And stick musk rose in thy sleek smooth Rosa arvensis Musk Rose head…" -A Midsummer Night's Dream

Rosa Rosa

"Shall send between the red rose and the white a thousand souls to death and deadly Rosa Red & White Rose night." -Henry VI

" With sweet musk rose and with eglantine:" - Rosa rubingosa Eglantine Rose A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Bulbs

"Bold oxslips and the crown imperial…" - Fritillaria Crown Imperial Winters Tale

"To gild refined gold, to paint the Lily." -King Lilium Lily John

"When daffodils begin to peer, with heigh' the doxy, over the dale, why, then comes in the Daffodil sweet o' the year" - Winter's Tale

Perennials

"Though it do work as strong as acontum" - Aconitum Monkshood King Henry

"I am that flower…that columbine." -Love's Aquilegia Columbine Labour Lost Grounds and Landscaping

William Shakespeare Garden Plant List

"Crown'd with burdocks, hemlock, nettles, Arctium Burdock cuckoo-flowers…" -King Lear

"Within the infant rind of the weak flower, poisen hath residence, and medicine power;" - Atropa belladona Belladona Romeo & Juliet

"When daisies pied…Do paint the meadows

Bellis perennis Daisy with delight." -Love's Labour's Lost

"The marigold, that goes to be wi' the sun, and Calendula Marigold with him rises weeping." -The Winter's Tale

"Thou shalt not lack the flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor the azured harbell like Campanula Bluebell/Harebell thy veins," -

"And Lady Smocks all silver white…" -Love's Cardamine pratensis Lady's Smock Labour's Lost

"Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' the season are our carnations, and streaked Disanthus Carnation gillyvors." -Winter's Tale Grounds and Landscaping

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"So that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, Hyssop Hyssop set hyssop…" -

Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arm's;" Iris Flower-De-Luc -Henry VI

"There with fantastic garlands did she come, of Lychnis Crowflower crow-flowers, nettles, daisies." -Hamlet

"Not poppy, nor mandragora nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall ever medicine thee Papaver Poppy that sweet sleep." -Othello

"Primrose, first born child of ver, merry spring- Primula Primerose time's harbinger." -Two Noble

"Here did she fall a tear; here, in this place, I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace" -King Ruta Rue Richard

"As gentle, as zephyrs blowing below the Violets violet; not waging is sweet head;" - Cymbeline