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Introduction | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. Reflecting times when a garden was a source of food, healing and cleaning products, the ‘Walled Garden’ will take you back to Medieval times. The design is faithful to the period, based on surviving features and garden styles of the 16th and early 17th century. Follow me on Twitter. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Nosegay garden | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. Coventry Bell (Canterbury bell). Old Canterbury Bell, Nettle leaved bell, Bats in the belfrey. Lily of the Valley. Carnation gillyflower, Clove gilleflower. Maiden Pink, Gilleflower. Maiden white pink, Gilleflower. Cheddar Pink, Gilleflower. Pink, Gilleflower, sops in wine. Young mop heads, bay. Stock (White HP form).
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Dyers border | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. The inclusion of dyers herbs is particularly appropriate for a garden in this region, given that East Anglia has close links with the cloth trade. Alkanet, Spanish bugloss. Common Alkanet, Bugloss. Dyers camomile, Margeurite. Marigold, pot marigold. Dipsacus fullonum ssp fullonum. Iris germanica var florentina.
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The Arbour | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. The arbour is used to display climbing plants, many of which would have been popular in Shakespeare’s day. The planting takes its inspiration from a Midsummer Night’s Dream:. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. Where oxslips and the nodding violet grows. Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Gardens | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. Friends of Cressing Temple gardens are working to protect these special gardens in their unique setting by focusing on their conservation and development into a place of research, education and historical representation as well as a source of therapeutic and medicinal plant knowledge. One comment on “ The Gardens. December 18, 2014 at 9:14 am.
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Knot garden | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. The best way to view the knot garden is from the raised wooden platform, which has been built to the same height as the original Tudor terrace. The four bronze heads are by sculptor Steven Morant and depict the green man beloved of English folklore. Around their heads are the leaves of four native trees characteristic of...
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The Tudor Walled Garden | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. The Tudor Walled Garden. The Tudor Walled Garden. Follow me on Twitter. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Jubilee Orchard | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. Also known as Essex Queen. Raised by Mr Bull of Billericay in 1858 from pips from an apple brought at the local market. Widely planted in Essex. Raised by Seabrook and Sons of Boreham in 1888. A result of a cross between Peasgood Nonsuch and Dumelow’s Seedling. Golden yellow and medium sized. Arose in the garden of nurseryman Ezekiel Dillstone in...
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The Forecourt | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. The first garden you encounter on entering the walled garden demonstrates plants that were commonly used for knots before box (. Our Lady’s mantle. Thrift, sea pink, ladies cushion. 8216;Bloody Warrior’. Cheiri ‘Harpur Crewe’. Herb robert, adders tongue, birds eye. Prunus cerasus var. morello. Ranunculus acris flore plena.
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Medicinal border | The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens
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The Friends of Cressing Temple Gardens. The Tudor Walled Garden. Barns and Medieval Carpentry. Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Apples and Orchards Project. A tour of the garden. Kidney vetch, Cats claws, Fingers and thumbs. Parsley piert, Breakstone parsley. Wild celery, smallage. Asarabacca, Hazelwort, European wild ginger, Wild spikenard. Henbane. Stinking nightshade. Black henbane. Elecampane, Velvet dock, Cure all, Scabwort. Mandrake. Devil’s apple. Love apple. Cotton thistle, Scotch thistle.