I offer early gardening displays that are suitable for re-enactments and historical gardens and other similar sites.
The costumed Medieval/Tudor/Monk and Stuart gardener will provide a fascinating insight into the plants and gardens of bygone times. Whether you wanted to appear more beautiful, relieve pain, improve a meal or kill a few rats, there were plants for every need.
With the largest collection of replica Medieval to Stuart gardening tools in the country, I can set up a display of tools and plants, or even demonstrate the use of the tools on your own site.
Activites for children and adults.
Learn:-
How the stars influenced planting.
How to use a watering pot.
Why you will die if you dig up a mandrake?
What you use an alembic for?
Why you wouldn’t want a Woad dyeing factory next door?
Why a gardener needs a VERY large wooden hammer?
Why the EEC won’t let you scare pigeons from your crops like they did in the ‘good old days’.
Why you needn’t spend hours making smelly soap when you can grow your own?
How to save money by not going to the expensive apothecary to cure your ills.
Sites that I have worked at include:
Lyveden New Bield :- 'Tresham's Tudor Gardener'.
Hardwick Hall :- 'Meet the Tudor Gardener'.
Dunstable Priory House:-'Tudor Day', 'The Monk Herbalist' and 'Meet the Medieval Gardener'.
Whittington Castle :- 'The Medieval Gardener'.
The Prebendal Manor, Nassington:-Garden Tours, 'Meet the Medieval Gardener', 'Meet the Apothecary'.
Grey Friars, Gloucester :- 'The Monk Herbalist'
Hinckley Tudor Day - 'The Tudor Gardener'.
'A fascinating day, and great fun for the children...' Dunstable TourisPriory House.