Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, COLUMBINES: There’s fennel for you, and columbines. Columbines were found wild but also valued as garden plants in Shakespearean England.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DAISY: whose perfect white showed like an April daisy on the grass. The ubiquitous daisy is a favourite metaphor for Shakespeare and symbolises innocence, youth, freshness.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, (Fritillaria); a purple flower sprung up, checkered with white. Shakespeare uses the new garden plant in an updated version of the Adonis myth of metamorphosis.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DAMASK ROSE: Gloves as sweet as damask roses.