Saturday 3 May | 11am -1pm | Dilston Physic Garden
Marie Addyman has been reading and teaching literature and how it uses nature to express our deepest emotions for many years. Her book, Nature: An English Literary Heritage explores these ideas in detail. Come and share some of the insights and emotions of both famous and lesser-known poets. Plants, birds and the natural world have always inspired writers from anonymous medieval lyricists to our contemporary poets.
Did you know that onions have been attributed aphrodisiacal properties in many cultures? Classic Hindu texts included them in manuals on the art of making love, and they were the most used aphrodisiac in ancient Greece.
Poetry and folklore has always used a language of flowers and plants to express our amorous needs, be they as aphrodisiacs, as courtship rituals, or as guarantees of fertility.
Come and explore some of these fascinating and sometimes bizarre customs to celebrate the burgeoning abundance of summer.
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