Als Quote by Edmund Spenser

There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this…

— Pliny the Elder

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi'…

— John Clare

“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale…

— Sarah Bower

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

— William Cowper

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses…

— William Shakespeare

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“sweetbriar, an old-fashioned, sweetly scented plant”

— Andrea Wulf

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

— William Shakespeare

“A lush clematis vine, its sweet vanilla scent calming and comforting, climbs over tented bamboo poles to form her reading fort. White jasmine flowers…

— Meg Donohue

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

— William Wordsworth

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;…

— Edmund Spenser