A new herb bed

A small group had a long work session on Sunday putting in a collection of new plants which have been bought by The Friends of Honeywood Museum.

​Honeywood and the wider Heritage Service are currently involved in a lavender project which is part of the Cultural Services STEAM project which is supported by the Mayor of London and the Heritage Fund.  Details of the STEAM events can be found here.

​We have created a new herb bed at the corner of the house near the French windows, The central feature of this is two large pots which were bought a long time ago and haven’t been planted for some years. They now contain a collection of herbs and there are more in the bed. The plants include lavender and Mitcham Black mint which were both grown commercially in the local area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

​We also put herbs in the pots on the wall by the French windows. Hopefully they will soon generate some nice scents.

​We also added some extra plants to the bed by the Festival Walk wall. Most of the bed was planted last autumn but one end had to left pending some tree work which has now been finished. Some of the plants we wanted were also unavailable. We have now filled the gaps. Last autumn’s planting has also recovered from the winter and the bed now looks much better and very promising for the summer.

The herb bed and pots

The bed by Festival Walk wall with the extra planting