Plant Lore and Legend by Ruth Binney
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Plant Lore and Legend by Ruth Binney
This small, giftable book gathers the stories that cling to plants, myths, customs, remedies, symbols, and superstitions passed down through generations.
It does not ask readers to believe every tale, but it reminds us that long before charts and databases, people made sense of plants through story.
February is a good time for this kind of reading, when the garden is quiet and imagination wanders through old calendars and hedgerows. Plant lore grounds us, and that grounding still matters.
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