Surprisingly vibrant blossoms may even decorate a guest room or altar.
Gardening is not undertaken for decorative purposes alone: Instead, fruits and vegetables flavor meals and carefully tended refuges are the perfect spot to pray. In Monastic Gardens, Mick Hales goes behind the gates for a rare look at the integral role a garden plays in the life of a monastery. Monks and nuns, too, know the peace and the pleasure that come from gardening. But these sacred places share a common bond with the secular realm. Outsiders imagine the silent seclusion, the austere settings, the rigorous routines of a religious life. Private worlds glimpsed by a privileged few, monasteries have long maintained an aura of mystery. My plan is to create/design a medieval/monastic herb garden over the upcoming winter and plant it starting next spring.* That’s a very positive thing, this richness and variety.I find the following books enlightening, soothing, and motivating. I see nothing at all to prevent the conditions of romance, healing, survival and passion all existing in the same person, perhaps even at the same time. I disagree that this flower is “both a positive and negative symbol”. It can also mean giving in to your emotions or passions and being swept away by love, which makes it both a positive and negative symbol. Mallow carries many symbolic meanings … including romantic interest, healing, and survival in tough conditions.
I was also curious to see what the mallow represents in the language of flowers. Pliny said that one of the marvels of all mallows was that ‘whoever swallows half a cyathus of the juice a day shall be immune to all diseases.’ The leaves and roots of marsh mallow were freshly prepared to soothe the surface soreness of a wound. In the Cadfael book authors Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman write about the medicinal effects of the marsh mallow:
Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden mentions it as a novelist’s source of herbal information. Left: A page from the Latin Herbarium of Apuleius, originally compiled in the 5th century.
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