Love-In-Idleness is mentioned in 2 plays in connection with its ability to induce love. The plant is also know as Heartsease or Wild Pansy.
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, VIOLET: I think the king is but a man as I am. The violet smells to him as it doth to me. The Violet, symbol of spring, hope, new beginnings was important culturally and also in food and medicine.
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, AZURED HAREBELL: I’ll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack… the azured harebell like thy veins. Happy Birthday Shakespeare. The British Bluebell is in full bloom on Shakespeare’s Birthday.