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Medieval Gardens

In the middle ages, physicians, cooks, and housewives knew that herbs and plants had a variety of uses for keeping people healthy and the home clean.

Listed here are a number of plants we know were cultivated for food, medicine, and other helpful applications. Plants whose common names begin A-C Plants whose common names begin D-L Plants whose common names begin M-R Plants whose common names begin S-Z

Some useful definitions:: beauty - a plant grown for its beauty; cooking - a plant grown as a food source or spice; dyeing - a plant grown for use as a dye; fiber - a plant used for making thread/cloth; fragrance - a plant grown for its scent; fulling - a plant used in the process of turning raw fiber into thread/yarn; medicine - a plant grown for medicinal uses; repellant - a plant used as a pest repellant; strewing - a plant used to lay around a room or chest to provide pest repellant and a pleasant fragrance

Book References:: Margaret B. Freeman - Herbs for the Mediaeval Household For Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses; Sylvia Landsberg - The Medieval Garden; Robin Whiteman - Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden

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