Gods and Green Fingers

By Linda Talbot

In Gods and Green Fingers discover how myths emerged from a profusion of simple plants and how we can cultivate these plants today. This anthology for plant lovers combines fact with fiction. Insights into plants, from familiar flowers to trees, climbers and curiosities - are interspersed with short stories of perturbing perspective. What happens to someone, for instance, trapped in a maze? What is the power of a peacock's feather in a garden where wishes are granted, on condition the feather is returned? And are there really fairies in the flower border?
The mythology of plants is particularly powerful. Heracles, for instance inspired one about the hellebore, when he deceived his wife Deianeira, who took malicious revenge on him. The sacred oak of Dodona still seems to house the spirit of Zeus and even the humble crocus appears; mysterious yet persistent in Minoan art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Talbot
• Release date: Jan 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311000767

Linda Talbot

Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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