Dr Twigs Way will explain … Do you know your Cow Mumble from your Sheep’s Parsley or your Pilewort from your Pigs Pettitoes?  Why should you avoid Priests Pintles but admire Venus’ Basin? What plant is named after policemen’s helmets and how did Love in Idleness inspire A Midsummer Night’s Dream? This talk on the origins of traditional wildflower names will reveal all!

Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and researcher fascinated by the past and intrigued by the role of flowers, gardens and landscape in art and culture of all kinds. Her talks and books reflect that endless curiosity with themes of symbolism and meaning, class and gender, art and literature. 

Twigs is an accredited Arts Society lecturer and co-director of the MA in Garden History at Buckingham University.  Her history of the Chrysanthemum in art and culture was published by Reaktion in 2020.