”Go, bind up thou yon hanging apricocks,
Which like unruly children, make their sire.
Richard 11
‘When our sea walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,’
Richard 11 Act 3 Scene 4.
’Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May’
Sonnet XV111
Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.1.169-72)
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Sweet Flowers are Slow
And Weeds Grow Fast
Sonnet XV
When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment
Othello: “Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are the gardeners”
'When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl'
Song of winter in "Love's Labour's Lost"
'Crabs' are Crab Apples.
There's fennel for you and columbine. Hamlet IV 5
Fennel
Columbine
'The strawberry grows underneath the nettle.' Henry V; I, I, 60
Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses
A Winter's Tale 1v 4
"I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks…” Sonnet 130
Lemon Balm “As sweet as Balm, as soft as air, as gentle.” Antony and Cleopatra (Act 5, Scene 2)
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
Hamlet (4.7.182-3)
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The Winter's Tale (4.3.1-4)
—"For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears." Falstaff in I Henry IV
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'Violets dim, yet sweeter than
the lids of Juno's eyes
or Cytherea's breathe'.
Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. 
Ophelia in 'Hamlet'
"Halfway down hangs one who gathers samphire- Dreadful trade!"
King Lear
Samphire gatherers were lowered by rope along the cliff side; it was, indeed, a hazardous task.
"A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet"
Romeo and Juliet
“Like the lily, That once was mistress of the field and flourish’d, I’ll hang my head and perish.” Henry VIII (3.1.168-70)
"...Not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep thou ow'dest yesterday." Othello; III, iii, 330 ff
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safely.
1 Henry 1v (2.3.9-11) 
Nettle: Urtica diocia
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows." 
A Midsummer Night's Dream; II, I, 249
Thyme: Thymus vugaris
Petroselinum crispum - Parsley
"I know a wench married in an afternoon as she went
to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit."
The Taming of the Shrew; IV, iv, 99 ff
* Carnation *
'Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flow'rs o' th'season Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors...' '
THE WINTER'S TALE (Act 4, Scene 4)
The modern name for gillyvors is Gilly Flowers, a name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus). the Carnation is the flower of significance for January.
Posy of Carnations
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Gillyvor or Dianthus
Woodbine or Honeysuckle
'Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine' from "A MidsummerNight'sDream' The botanic name for Woodbine or Honeysuckle is Lonicera periclymenum. This variegated deciduous vine has two shades of green at the centre of the leaf and creamy white margins. Leaves brighten to hot pink in the autumn. Pink buds and pastel pink and cream flowers are sweetly scented. The herb is wonderful over an arch as the feature of a Shakespearean Garden.
