Lavender

Here’s flowers for you;

Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;

The Winter’s Tale 4.4

Elizabethan housewives used lavender (from the Latin for “to wash”) for everything from bathing to laundry. Some also draped wet clothes on lavender bushes to dry, infusing them with a natural moth repellent. It was believed that lavender in your hair allowed you to see ghosts and was also useful for taming lions and tigers.