Shakespeare on Roses

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Lovely SHADES in December

For a Special Someone Recouperating from Surgery 

            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

Reference_________________________________________________________

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

All material © 2007-2017 by Jeanette Hyden for Grassroots Horticulture

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