More than a quarter of a century ago when I first began to explore the plant realm, I remember a visit I made one warm afternoon in June was to an old Salem garden where sweet William and foxgloves, ...

It’s easy to recreate the ordinary English vegetable garden of 600 years ago because the layout and cultivation of those early gardens differed little from today’s gardens. The early gardens also had ...

Assisi (Photo Tour). Franciscan Web Page. Clare of Assisi. The Legend and Writings of Saint Clare of Assisi. St. Bonaventure, New York, 1953. _____. Early Documents ...

Royal gardens in medieval England / Howard M. Colvin -- The Medieval monastic garden / Paul Meyvaert -- Hortus sanitatis, Gart der Gesundheit, Gaerde der Sunthede / Gundolf Keil -- Alimentary and ...

In the fall of 2001, Tom Turley, a medieval historian at Santa Clara University, inspired by the medieval garden project at Penn State University which features plants grown in Northern Europe, ...

Carly Still, the woman in charge of the museum's bounty of plants and herbs, shares how she merged her loves of art and gardening. Carly Still, the Managing Horticulturalist at the Met Cloisters.

Continuum presents a program of music inspired by four medieval gardens, namely; The Garden of Zephirus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Dreams in the Pleasure Garden, and Dance in the Garden of Mirth ...

Our medieval ancestors actively encouraged weeds in their vegetable plots. The Fromond List, compiled by Surrey landowner Thomas Fromond in about 1525, is a list of “herbys necessary for a gardyn”. He ...

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In undertaking the project in 1951 of spreading knowledge of the medieval flowers symbolically named for Mary and their growing as a prayerful religious work, we first of all looked for a name for the ...