Cloister Garden

After the overnight rain, I spent a happy hour watering the parts of St John's Garden that don't receive much rain due to high walls and big plane trees.  This Garden was part of the vegetable garden of the Monastery of St John in Medieval times before it became a parish burial ground.

There is another small garden nearby, the Cloister Garden (pictured) which, not surprisingly, used to be part of the cloister of the Monastery of St John.  Their and our volunteers share expertise and sometimes plants, although the gardens are very different.  The Cloister Garden is a walled garden and is planted to show the medicinal herbs that were used by the monks of the Order of St John (which is now St John's Ambulance).  The centrepiece of the Garden is a gorgeous old olive tree.