The Celtic Herbalist's Gardens
- Works in progress: A
The plan shows that there are many different gardens planned. As the gardens progress, these 'works in progress' pages will keep you up to date with developments.
Garden number 1: The Gaul's Potager
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This is a garden of vegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs arranged in a geometric pattern: three large vegetable beds with four rough circles around them. These comprise: a pool, a fruit mound, a salads' wheel and a grain circle.
In the centre is a fire pit with a quatrefoil of culinary herbs around it. The pit represents the fire often found in the middle of a Celtic village.
The fruit mound will be jealously guarded by the Spirit of the Fruit (a Celtic style manikin) on its summit.
Garden number 2: Rhiwallon's Garden
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This is a memorial garden of tincture beds. It is in memory of Rhiwallon of Myddfai the physician who, in the 13th century, collected the remaining two-thousand year old Celtic remedies in the oral tradition still extant, at that time, in Britain.
The garden comprises nine rectangular beds of medicinal herbs arranged in the medieval fashion with the requisite water feature (here, with pestle and mortar) overflowing into the stone basin.
A Celtic cross, recording Rhiwallon's life is under the peach tree and a Celtic style bench is being made for under the fig tree.