Alexander Neckham in De Naturis Rerum wrote about the ideal garden in the 13th Century. He opined, "The garden should be adorned with roses and lilies, the turnsole or heliotrope, violets, and mandrake, there you should have parsley and cost, fennel, southernwood, coriander, sage, savery, hyssop, mint, rue, ditanny, smallage, pellitory, lettuce, garden cress, and peonies. There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks, garlic, pumpkins, and shallots. The cucumber, the poppy, the daffodil, and the brank-ursine out to be in a good garden. There should also be potted herbs, such as beets, herb mercury, orach, sorrel and mallows." Whew!

Beeswax for thousands of years has symbolized purity. The magical properties for not only lighting but the first hand cream was a combination of beeswax and glycerin made from tallow. We still use beeswax in almost every cosmetic and moisturizing product for hair and body in the 21st century.

Our flowers can be reused year after year for each anniversary. The individual flowers can be washed in cool soapy water, rinsed dried and reused for any special dessert or anniversary cake. Flower choices include over fifty different varieties in every color nature offers.