The garden aims to reignite the recognition of female ancient healing knowledge and celebrates oral tradition – the practice of passing down knowledge through spoken word or song. Long before Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician regarded as ‘the father of modern medicine’, health and healing was a female domain of knowledge, received, preserved and transmitted from generation to generation.
In Ancient Greek civilisations, gardens played a central role in the cultivation of plants for medicinal purposes and women used several species of Lamiaceae for health and healing, such as Vitex agnus-castus, Salvia, Stachys, Lavandula, Origanum, Mentha and many more. These plants are featured in the border to offer a fresh perspective on a medicinal planting and inspire visitors to consider both aesthetic and therapeutic properties when choosing garden plants.
