by Lin Saines Yes, it’s that time of year again! It doesn’t seem very long since my last end-of-year report on happenings centred around the Medieval Garden, but it has been quite a busy year and worth reviewing. The dreadful winter we all suffered hardly affected the planting within the Garden, which demonstrates how hardy … read more
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Hidden behind the steep walls of Rye Castle, and bonded into the substantial brickwork of both the Ypres and Women’s Towers, is an important reconstruction of a 15th century pleasure garden. First created in 1997-1998, the garden includes essential features from the medieval period, together with herbs and plants of culinary, household and medicinal importance. … read more
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STILLROOM THOUGHTS Autumn Stillroom If – on an Autumn or early Winter’s night – you quietly opened the heavy, oaken door leading to a Still Room such as our own within the Ypres Tower, you would immediately smell that special scent of Christmas and the festive season shortly to unfold, for this would be the … read more
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In July those early-blooming flowers of Spring and Summer make way for more spectacular garden characters to take centre stage. Red “ROSA GALLICA”, known as the “Apothecaries Rose” and white “ROSA ALBA” make a pretty and scented frame around the CHAMOMILE SEAT at the “Women’s Tower” end of the garden. The seat was re-planted … read more
