if in doubt...choose lavender

(and that's exactly what i did...!)**


"here's your sweet lavender
sixteen sprigs a penny
that you'll find my ladies
will smell as sweet as any"
Lavender Sellers's Cry, London England CA 1900


(easy enough...)



"There's a few things I've learned in life: always throw salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for good luck, and fall in love whenever you can"
William Shakespeare


(told you..didn't i?)



"The floures of Lavender picked from the knaps, I meane the blew part and not the husk, mixed with Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Cloves, made into powder, and given to drinke in the distilled water thereof, doth helpe the panting and passion of the heart, previaleth against giddinesse, turning or swimming of the brain, and members subject to the palsie."
Herball, John Gerard - 1597


(i may have tod you...can't be sure)


Lavandula is an herbe men clemp lavandre. This herbe is moche lyk to ysope but is mor lengger lewys thenne ysope and it hast a flour sumdel blew and also the stalke growith other-wyse. The vertu of this herbet is ef it be sothyn in water and dronke that water it wele hele the palsye and many other ewyls.
The Angus Castus of the 14th Century


(i doubt i ever told you this...it's all Greek to me...!)




lavender #1




**(the title of an aromatherapy workshop i used to teach. hmm...must work on my titles. but on the other hand it was inspirational this morning when i was...in doubt!?)


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