Themed Gardens | Literary | Shakespeare

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Themed Gardens

CREATING a Shakespeare garden

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Plants in Shakespearean Literature 

aconitum (monkshood)	dewberry	lemon	plum
almond	dock	lettuce	pomegranate
aloe	dogberry	lily	poppy
apple, (also crab, pippin)	ebony	lime	potato
apricot	eglantine	ling	primrose
ash	elder	locust	pumpion (probably gourd)
aspen	elm	long purple (probably orchis morio, o. mascula)	quince
bachelor’s button	fennel	love-in-idleness (pansy)	radish
balm	fern	mace	reed
balsam and balsamum	fig	mallows	rhubarb
barley	filbert	mandragora, mandrake (mythological)	rice
bay	flag	marigold (calendula or pot marigold)	rose
bean	flax	marjoram	rosemary
bilberry	flower-de-luce (iris)	marybud (marigold)	rue
birch	fumitor	mast	rush
blackberries and brambles	furze	medlar	rye
box	garlic	mint	saffron (C. sativus)
brier	gillyvor (carnation)	mistletoe	samphire
broom	ginger	moss	savory
bulrush	gooseberry	mulberry	sedge
burdock	goss or gorse	mushroom	senna
burnet	gourd	musk rose	speargrass
cabbage	grace (rue)	mustard	stover (grass)
camomile	grape	myrtle	strawberry
carnation	grass	narcissus	sugar
carraway	harebell	nettle	sycamore
carrot	harlock (burdock)	nutmeg	thistle
cedar	hawthorn	oak	thorn
cherry	hazel	oats	thyme
chestnut	heath (ling)	olive	toadstool
clove	hebanon (possibly yew)	onion	turnip
clover (or honey-stalks)	hemlock	orange	vetch
cockle	hemp	osier (willow)	vine
coloquintida	herb of grace (rue)	oxlip	violet
columbine	holly	palm tree	walnut
cork	holy thistle	pansy	wheat
corn	honeysuckle	parsley	willow
cowslip	hyssop	pea	woodbine (honeysuckle)
crow-flower	insane root (mythological)	peach	wormwood
crown imperial	ivy	pear	yew
cuckoo-flower (buttercup)	kecksies (hemlock)	peony
currant	knot-grass	pepper
cypress	lady-smock	pig-nuts
daffodil	lark’s heels (larkspurs)	pine
daisy	laurel	pink
darnel	lavender	plane tree
date	leek	plantain

            

Shakespeare on Roses

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            Lawn as white as driven snow Cyprus black as e'er crow. Gloves as sweet as damask roses.  

                                                            The Winter's Tale  

Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

                                         Two Noble Kinsman

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

                                                                Romeo and Juliet

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. 

                                   Love's Labour's Lost

Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell

Of different flowers in odour and in hue

Could make me any summer's story tell,

Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew;

Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,

Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;

They were but sweet, but figures of delight,

Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

Sonnet 98

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: 
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.
                           A Midsummer Night's Dream

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 

For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

Sonnet 54

Roses in the Garden

1. Tahitian Sunset, hybrid tea rose 
2. The Charlatan, climbing rose
3. Tiffany, hybrid tea rose
4. Chrysler Imperial, hybrid tea rose
5. Pink Peace, hybrid tea rose 
6. Pope John Paul II, hybrid tea rose

Additional Roses in the Garden

• Peggy Martin, climbing rose
• Climbing Pinkie, Polyantha rose
• Gemini, hybrid tea rose

If you are a fan of historical fiction as am I you would enjoy a visual journey to the seventeenth century  through portraiture. I have posted a chronological gallery of noble portraits. Their lace collars frame the faces of that era. As Shakespeare was an acclaimed weaver in his own right the threads and motifs in the portraits tell stories and reveal metaphors as well.

Natural Fibers and Lace Collars in the 17th Century

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Queay, Gerit, Sumié Hasegawa-Collins, and Helen Mirren. Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright. , 2017. Print.

Carter, Annie B. Shakespeare Gardens: Design, Plants, and Flower Lore. , 2013. Print.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002012995

Shakespeare, William, and Henry N. ELLACOMBE. The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare. by the Rev. H.n. Ellacombe. New Edition, Etc. Pp. xvi. 383. E. Arnold: London & New York, 1896. Print.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003918446

  References                                                                                 ITIS  Integrated Taxonomy Information System

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