Friday 20 June 11-12.30 ‘Plants, Medicines and Life in Medieval England’.
Award-winning florist and bee-keeper Janelle Quitman describes monastic gardens, the fundamental importance of plants, their medicinal properties and their effect upon everyday life in medieval England. With a floral workshop making herbal posies and midsummer flower circlets. £5
Janelle is an award-winning qualified Florist. Most recently her design work included decoration of the great altar of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey for the Royal Airforce service of thanksgiving and rededication of battle of Britain Sunday. She is a qualified NAFAS speaker and enjoys sharing information about the importance of pollinators, preferring British herbs and flowers grown naturally without use of pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
