(Hardback)

Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeares lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.

(Hardback)

This book shows how various plants were used for cooking and brewing, medicines and cosmetics, in the making and care of clothes, and finally to keep rooms fresh, fragrant and decorated during the seventeenth-century. Richly illustrated, it provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.

(Hardback)

This is the social history of twelve enduringly popular flowers: from the rose and lily, old favourites redolent of the Middle Ages and religious symbolism, to the tulip and hyacinth, fashionable bulbs that commanded huge sums. Margaret Willes looks at how they got their names, how they arrived in our gardens and how they were bought and displayed