Lavender Fields Forever
No smell of cow patties flitted through the air, thank goodness. After all, just before lunch who wants to contemplate …
Tag Archives: Gardens
The Random Herbalist: Into the Setting Sun
For the moment, the end of the series of notes on monks and their gardens.
The Random Herbalist: Charlemagne, St. Gall, and the History of Medicine
The history of medicine, a fascinating subject, shows how people began to understand more and more about the corporeal body. …
Idylls of Cuisine #24
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The Random Herbalist: Monks and Plant Migration
Along with dill, which we’ve briefly brushed by, other plants also traveled with the monks as they made their way …
The Random Herbalist: The Roman Influence on Monastic Gardens
With this post, I celebrate a year of writing “Gherkins & Tomatoes!” Thank you so much to everyone who visits …
The Random Herbalist: St. Gall, A Model Garden Plan?
[NOTE: I'd like to thank the readers of Gherkins & Tomatoes for their patience this summer --- in the last …
The Random Herbalist: The Hortus Eremitje
Charlemagne had a shovel in every monastic garden, or so it seems:* As early as the days of Charles the …
The Random Herbalist: Books About Monastic and Medieval Gardens
I find the following books enlightening, soothing, and motivating. My plan is to create/design a medieval/monastic herb garden over the …
Idylls of Cuisine #23
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
