THE ELIZABETHAN GARDENS
The Elizabethan garden was the most used type in the Elizabethan age in England. The gardens were rectangular and separated by paths, made of sand, turf or gravel, and adorned with shrubs or vine shelters and hedges in four different zones: flower garden, kitchen garden, physic garden and orchard.
Flower garden, where many different types of flowers were grown created beautiful colour effects and were divided into different areas by height, flowering time and hue.
In kitchen garden, usually separated by other parts, vegetables and herbs for culinary use were cultivated.
Whereas in physic garden, plants for healing and medical use, like rosemary, thyme and lavender were grown. These plants were believed to have healing and magical powers: rosemary put on the head enhances memory and avoids nightmares, thyme rubbed on eyes helps your eyesight (thyme was also associated with fairies, who could be positive or negative) and lavender could help see ghosts when adorned on the head.
Orchard were cultivated with fruit trees, plants and aromatic herbs.
