The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter's Garden

Plants mentioned in Beatrix Potter's "little books":

  1. Peter Rabbit: parsley, onions, chamomile, lettuce, French beans, radishes, cabbages, potatoes, peas, beans, blackberries, gooseberries, black currant
  2. Tailor of Gloucester: pansies
  3. Squirrel Nutkin: nettle, strawberries, dock, rushes, nut bush, hazel bush, briar bush
  4. Benjamin Bunny: rabbit-tobacco (lavender)
    Thanks to Carolee Snyder for pointing out that in America, the herb called "rabbit-tobacco" is Sweet Everlasting (Gnaphalium obtusifolium)
  5. Jeremy Fisher: buttercups, lily-leaves
  6. A Fierce Bad Rabbit: carrot
  7. Jemima Puddle-duck: sage, thyme, mint, foxgloves, corn, oats,
  8. Johnny Town-Mouse: pansies, roses, pinks

Plants mentioned in Beatrix Potter's letters:

  1. wall-rue, polypody
  2. saxifrage
  3. phlox
  4. laurel
  5. lilies
  6. azaleas
  7. lilacs
  8. rhododendrons
  9. red fuschia
  10. witch hazel
  11. clematis
  12. Japanese anemones
  13. sweet William
  14. gentians
  15. forget-me-nots
  16. daffodils
  17. hollyhocks
  18. violets
  19. lavender
  20. lunaria (honesty)
  21. lychnis (London pride)



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