Monastery Gardens: Ancient Herbal Folklore
“Spreading herbs and flowerets bright, Glisten’d with the dew of night, Nor herb nor floweret glisten’d there, But was carved in the cloister-arches as fair.” -Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto II Monastic communities were designed to be largely self sufficient. The monks needed to grow all the plant material they ...