Early Gardens

The "vernacular garden"
 

A timeline of garden sources, 700 BCE to 1250 CE

 
Early Gardens in Britain

• Iron Age British gardens
   
• Gardens of Roman Britain, 43-450 CE

  • Romano-British gardens

    • Abbey Farm Villa
    • Bancroft Villa
    • Camulodunum
    • Darenth Villa
    • Fishbourne Roman Palace
    • Frocester Court Villa and its plants
    • Gorhambury Villa
    • Latimer VIlla
    • Vindolanda and its foods

  • Roman garden:

    • Art
    • Components
    • Plants
      • Roman villa plants
      • Plants of Roman Britain

Gardens of post-Roman Britain, 450-1400 CE

• Church and monastery gardens

  • Canterbury Cathedral
  • Mount Grace Priory
    • The gardeners of Mt. Grace
    • Ground plan of Mt. Grace

    • A Carthusian elixir

• Castle and manor gardens

• Gardens of toft and croft

• Gardened or Gathered? The Plants of the Anglo-Saxon Herbarius Apuleii

  • Comparing modern habitat information with
    that provided in Pseudo-Apuleius

• Charter landscapes: Fields, gardens, and plants in Anglo-Saxon England

• Gardens in the Domesday Book

• The Garden of Henricus Anglicus

• Sources

Early gardens on the Continent

• Continental sources on early gardens

• Charlemagne's Asnapium, in 8th Century France

• The gardens of the "Plan of St Gall" (820 CE)

• Walafrid Strabo's Hortulus
  • Imagining Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Medicinal Uses of Plants in Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Plants of Walafrid's Hortulus
     

Plantain, from an early herbal