Poetic Flora or Modest Bloom?

April 20, 2017 3 Comments

An April Thursday delights the eye with modest treasures – small blossoms, peeking out from here or there.

Back home, on the computer screen, a cornucopia of all kinds of plants lights up: a new book that catalogues and beautifully illustrates the botanicals used by Shakespeare in his writings – all 175 them!

 

The plant drawings are set next to excerpts of the verses they inhabit, what a grandiose idea! Gardener friends, you know what you’ll find on your birthday table.

 

A Compendium of Shakespeare’s Plants, from Juliet’s Rose to Ophelia’s Bouquet

 

 

Much reason, then, to bellow this today:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwzwmgdYZJY

 

April 19, 2017

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3 Comments

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    Martha Ullman West

    April 20, 2017

    Lovely post Friderike, many thanks on what looks to be a dreary day, although the trees in the Park Blocks are budding in their glorious spring green.

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    Deb Meyer

    April 20, 2017

    Thanks so much for reminding me that Spring is coming soon to rainy Portland!

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    Pat Wollner

    April 20, 2017

    So lovely. Thank you. Are they all from around your area?

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