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Early gardens
 

The "vernacular garden"

A timeline of garden sources, 700BCE to 1300 CE

Early Gardens in Britain

• Iron Age 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 foodstuffs

  • 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, 1165 CE
  • Mount Grace Priory
• 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
  • Complete boundary description from S644
• Gardens in the Domesday Book
• The Garden of Henricus Anglicus
• A restored late medieval herb garden at Mount Grace Priory
  • The gardeners of Mt. Grace
  • Ground plan of Mt. Grace
  • A Carthusian elixir
• Sources

Early Plants

• Identifying medieval plants

Early plants in Britain

• Archeology and the plants of Iron Age Britain
   

• Plants of Roman Britain
   

• Leechbook of Bald, an Anglo-Saxon collection of three physician's manuals
  from about 925-955 CE

  • Plants of the Leechbook

• The Lacnunga and its plants - Also in Old English, a physician's book
  from about 950-1050 CE

• Aelfric's plants in his "Grammar," "Glossary" and "Colloquy," from the late 900s

• Plants of Pseudo-Apuleius: the Bury St. Edmond's Herbal

• Charter landscapes, 600-1100 CE: Fields, gardens, and plants in Anglo-Saxon England

• The garden of Henricus Anglicus, c. 1200 CE

  • Identifying medieval plants

• Capitulare de Villis, a Carolingian document c. 800 CE
• "Plan of St Gall," a ground plan, created in Reichenau c. 820 CE, for an ideal monastery
• Charlemagne's estate at Asnapium
• Walafrid Strabo's Hortulus
  • Imagining Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Medicinal Uses of Plants in Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Plants of Walafrid's Hortulus

• Garden guardians - from Gartenzwerg to garden gnome

• Saints for your garden

Growing heirloom plants

Online resources

• Gardener's Glossary

  • Historical periods

  • Insecticidal soap

  • Root division

  • Scarification

  • Stem Cuttings

  • Stratification

• Companion plants

• Designing a medieval herb garden

• Japanese beetle control

• Pesticides that are toxic to bees

• Saints for a garden

• Tools for Gardening

• What Makes a Great Garden Catalog

• What phytoliths can tell us about early gardens

• Why Garden? Pointing to the Rose...

Print resources

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• Historical background

• Early plants

• Growing heirloom plants