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Morning glory:
bound by love, sustained by bonds of affection

Mugwort:
safe travels, insightful dreams

Oak:
hospitality

Parsley:
feast and abundance, joy, victory; “The woman rules the household”

Phlox:
“We think alike”

Prickly pear:
satire, sarcasm, irony

Rose, red:
“May you ever be pure and lovely”

Rosemary:
remembrance, loyalty, faithfulness until death

Santolina:
protection against bad things

Sunflower:
pride, haughtiness, lofty thoughts

Sweet Annie (
Artemisia annua
):
absence

Sweet bay (bay laurel):
consistency, constancy; “I change only in death”

Sweet pea:
delicate pleasure

Tansy:
life everlasting, immortality, hostile thoughts

Verbena:
enchantment

Vinca:
friendship, binding affection

Violet:
love, faithfulness, loyalty

White poppy:
forgetting, consolation, a sleep of the heart

Widow's tears:
grief

Wisteria:
“I cling to you”

Yarrow:
foretelling the future, cure for heartache

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With her husband, Bill Albert, writing as Robin Paige

DEATH AT BISHOP'S KEEP
DEATH AT EPSOM DOWNS
DEATH AT GALLOWS GREEN
DEATH AT DARTMOOR
DEATH AT DAISY'S FOLLY
DEATH AT GLAMIS CASTLE
DEATH AT DEVIL'S BRIDGE
DEATH IN HYDE PARK
DEATH AT ROTTINGDEAN
DEATH AT BLENHEIM PALACE
DEATH AT WHITECHAPEL
DEATH ON THE LIZARD

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