Works — Mes Bera

Refinement

Lilies were cultivated in East Asia as ornamental plants and, in some contexts, as useful plants, grown in household gardens as well as managed plots.
Garden manuals describe lilies as hardy perennials that

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Resolve

Lilies have a long history of medicinal use in East Asia, particularly in China, where several Lilium species were valued for their bulbs.
Medical texts such as the Bencao Gangmu describe lily bulbs as nourishi

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Hag’s Candle

Verbascum species have long been associated with fire and portable light in European rural practice.
Early modern herbals describe dried mullein stalks dipped in fat or tallow and burned as hand-held torch

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Farhad’s Tulip

The story of Farhad originates in Persian literature, most notably in Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi,
written in the 12th century. Farhad is a skilled stonecutter who falls in love with Shirin, a

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Malian Petunia

Ruellia simplex is a perennial flowering plant in the Acanthaceae family,
commonly known as Mexican petunia or wild petunia, though it is not related
to true petunias. It is native to parts of Centra

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Messenger

Iris species are perennial flowering plants native to temperate regions of
Europe and western Asia. They occur along riverbanks, in open meadows, at
woodland margins, and within long-established garden se

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The Cure for Madness

In ancient Greece, hellebore was strongly associated with
madness and its cure . According to myth, the seer and healer
Melampus cured the daughters of Proetus , who
had gone mad afte

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Forgetting Sorrow

In China, the orange day-lily ( Hemerocallis ) has long been associated with
easing worry and emotional distress. From at least the Tang dynasty onward, literary
sources link the day-lily with mot

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The Flower of the Sun

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) was domesticated by Indigenous
peoples of North America several thousand years ago for its edible seeds and
oil-bearing capacity. Archaeological finds

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Prairie Flower

Heliopsis helianthoides is a perennial flowering plant native to the central
and eastern regions of the present-day United States. It grows in open
habitats such as prairies, grasslands, woodland mar

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Formal Visit

Peach and pale roses originate from cultivated varieties of Rosa species
developed through selective breeding in Europe and the Near East from late
medieval periods onward. Naturally occurring wild ros

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The Monastery Ward

Tree-mallow (Lavatera) belongs to the broader mallow group recorded in
Mediterranean and southern European plant use from classical antiquity onward.
Ancient Greek medical writers, including Hipp

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