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RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

Plants in the RHS Healer’s Hollow garden

The theme of the garden is to use plants that have a history of medicinal use

Foeniculum vulgare (common fennel)

Fennel is good for digestion

Robust, upright, aromatic perennial plant to 1.8m tall, with 3 to 4 pinnate mid-green leaves composed of hair-like segments, and branching stems bearing flat umbels of small yellow flowers in summer; both leaves and fruits are aniseed-scented

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Stachys byzantina (lamb’s ear)

“Stachys byzantina is good for female health.”

A carpeting, evergreen perennial, with thick, soft, oblong-elliptic leaves and stems densely white-woolly. Basal leaves are to 10cm long, in rosettes, flowering stems erect to 50cm in height. Flowers are purplish or pink, sometimes appearing striped, arranged in many-flowered whorls in an interrupted spike in summer. 

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Artemisia absinthium (wormwood)

“Artemisia is good for skincare.”

An upright deciduous perennial, with finely divided, highly aromatic grey-green foliage and rather insignificant yellowish flowers in late summer. Has many medicinal benefits.

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Crataegus monogyna (common hawthorn)

“Hawthorn is steeped in historical folklore.”

A rounded deciduous tree to about 10m in height, with thorny branches and glossy, deeply lobed dark green leaves, colouring gold in autumn. Flat sprays of fragrant, creamy-white flowers with pink anthers, are produced in late spring, followed by plentiful dark red edible berries in autumn.

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Please note: Plant lists are provided by the designer of the garden as a guide to the plants they hope to use in the garden based on the time of year, the location and the Client Brief. The plants that feature at the Show depends on a variety of factors such as weather during the growing season and availability. While the designers try to update lists where possible, the accuracy of the list cannot be guaranteed.

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