The Herb Garden

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Introduction
Issued in 1995, the model is now mainly used for specials. This painting began at the 2007 Talents Event which had a Shakespearean theme. The playwright’s daughter Susanna was married to renowned herbal physician John Hall and herb gardens were widely grown. Garden historian Eleanour Sinclair Rhode (1882-1950) helped inspire the modern revival.

Borage from the garden below. An introduced annual commonly grown as a culinary herb, the flowers and young shredded leaves can also be added to salads. Borage acts as a diuretic and induces sweating. 

 Hazle modelled 50 St Peter Street in Canterbury in 1995 when there were two side doors, like the ceramic. King Charles II is said to have breakfasted here in 1664. Rear kitchens from the 1200s and bread ovens from the late 1700s have been excavated.

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Monastic Herb Gardens
In Anglo-Saxon Britain religious orders were at the forefront of herbal knowledge. Besides medicine and cookery, there were sweet strewing herbs and plants for dyes, insecticides and textile making. In 1998 such a herb garden was re-created at the ruined Shaftesbury Abbey near us. Its patron St Benedict was known to endorse manual work and self-sufficiency.

 Aethelgifu's Herb Collection. King Alfred founded a Benedictine nunnery at Shaftesbury in 888AD and his daughter Aethelgifu was the first abbess.

 This 2008 calendar has herbal recipes and folklore.