Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Links for the Arboretum Love Potions Tour

Valentine’s Day "Love Potions" Tour


Hope everybody had a great time on the tour. Here's some of the links to the plants I mentioned, and others to some I haven't:


Aphrodisiacs from South Africa


Aphrodisiacs from Africa


Aphrodisiacs from Australia

Pittosporum venulosum: Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase

Aphrodisiacs from the Americas


Aphrodisiacs from China


Aphrodisiacs from India



Aphrodisiacs from Southeast Asia



The Language of Flowers.

The Language of Flowers - The Homeowners Column


Thursday, February 20, 2014

Some Links for the Valentines' Day 'Love Potions' Tour

I'd like to thank everybody who took the 'Love Potion' tour this last Valentine's Day. It was a huge success and everybody was real enthusiastic -a great audience and I was privileged to be a part of the whole thing. Some people were asking that I post whatever references I had for the tour and so here are some of them -I'll post more at a later date.   Cheers,   Frank

Promegranate (Punica granatum)

Olive (Olea europa)
Peaches (Prunus persica)


Apple (Malus domestica)

Mulberry (Morus sp.)

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)

Mango (Mangifera indica)

Banana (Musa sp.)
"In Russia, when a man peels a banana for a lady it means he has a romantic interest in her."

Orchidaceae
Meaning & symbolism of the orchid

Vanilla planifolia


Ivy (Hedera sp.)
           
Silk Tree (Ceiba pentandra)

Symbolic Meanings of Herbs, Flowers and Trees


Myths and legends of flowers, trees, fruits, and plants : in all ages and in all climes (1911)


Lotus

PLANT MYTHS & TRADITIONS IN INDIA

Plants in Shakespeare’s Words

Plumeria

Plant & animal symbolism





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