One of my favorite occasional blogs, The Cloisters' The Medieval Garden Enclosed, has a new blog post up about rosemary. I learned that rosemary is a member of the mint family, and that it is native to the Mediterranean.
Reading about rosemary reminded me of how we'd find it in abundance in Greece, as you can see in detail above at the Temple of Ammon Zeus at Potidaea in the Chalkidike, and I also remember it quite clearly from Lavrion, where the plant was covered in a magnificent spider web.
Read more here about rosemary, from the Met: The Virtues of Rosemary.
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