| It proved to be some asphodel bulbs, sent by Mrs. Forman from Athens for planting in the conservatory. |
| You can find baskets of woven wheat straw, raffia, palm dwarf of asphodel, wicker. |
| The asphodel was a favourite plant among the ancients, who were in the habit of planting it round their tombs. |
| The poets, probably taking their cue from this, have celebrated the asphodel in song as the flower of the immortals. |
| The plant, known as turkeybeard, or mountain asphodel, is a rare species of lily. |
| Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge. |
