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Chelsea 2003
Herb Society Stand
Walk on the Wild Side

 

Silver Medal Winning Chelsea Stand in the Life Long Learning Marquee
 

The following are picture of the stand including the visit by Anthea Turner

 

 

 

 

British Wild Herbs
As a naturalist I was delighted that this year's display of herbs in the Lifelong Learning Marquee are plants living wild in Britain. These are the plants that furnished the needs of our ancestors, and this is just a sample of those in the display, and a few of their uses:
  • Woodruff - this tiny woodland plant is odourless until cut, then it has an almond scent, and it was used to refresh the air of musty houses
  • Ground Elder - introduced by the Romans as a pot-herb
  • Woad - classic dye plant
  • Lady's Mantle - its tannins were used for what was once called "women's problems"
  • Ramsons - Native broad leaved woodland wild garlic
  • Fuller's Teasel - Used to raise the nap of cloth
  • Valerian - its root's contain sedative material
  • Burnet - used in salad's with faint cucumber taste
  • Russian Comfrey - Contains allantoin that stimulates cell growth and tissue repair (but not for use on broken skin)
  • Herb Robert - Its astringent tannins made it a wound healer.

Roger Tabor

 

Full planting list for "A Walk on the Wild Side"
  • Alexanders
  • Angelica
  • Beech
  • Bramble / blackberry
  • Calendula
  • Celery leaved buttercup
  • Chamomile
  • Coltsfoot
  • Comfrey
  • Common bistort
  • Common mallow
  • Common poppy
  • Common scurvygrass
  • Common thyme
  • Common valerian
  • Cowslip
  • Creeping jenny
  • Cuckooflower
  • Dandelion
  • Dog rose
  • Dropwort
  • Elder
  • Field horsetail
  • Foxglove
  • Garlic mustard / Jack by the Hedge
  • Goats-Beard
  • Gold rod
  • Great burnet
  • Great mullein
  • Ground Ivy
  • Ground-elder
  • Hare's foot clover
  • Heartsease
  • Herb robert
  • Hounds tongue
  • Kidney Vetch
  • Lady's bedstraw
  • Lady's mantle
  • Large thyme
  • Marsh mallow
  • Marsh Marigold
  • Meadowsweet
  • Midland hawthorn
  • Mouse-ear Hawkweed
  • Oak
  • Pennyroyal
  • Ragged robin
  • Ramsons / wild garlic
  • Red clover
  • Red valerian
  • Ribwort plantain
  • Silver birch
  • Silverweed
  • Soapwort
  • Stinging nettle
  • Sweet flag
  • Sweet violet
  • Tansy
  • Thistle
  • Toadflax
  • Traveller's Joy / Old Man's Beard
  • Watermint
  • White campion
  • White dead nettle
  • White mustard
  • Wild marforam
  • Wild parsnip
  • Wild strawberry
  • Woad
  • Wood Avens
  • Woodraff
  • Yarrow

 

 

The stand was designed and built by Nick Cook who also grew the herbs

Nick Cook
Lodge Farm
Case Lane
Fiveways
Hatton
Warwickshire, CV35 7JD

Tel: 01926 484 649 Mobile: 07977 631 368

 

                               

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