Contains separate kitchen and cloister areas.
    * The kitchen garden with onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, celery, parsley, anise, cumin, chervil, coriander, dill, lettuce, poppy, rosemary, savory, radishes, parsnips, carrots, cabbage, beets, etc.
    * The cloister garden  had the medicinal herbs and plants used primarily for decoration of the church, celebration of feast days and processions. This garden contains rose, sage, peppermint, rosemary, pennyroyal, watercress,rue, clary sage, marsh mallow, agrimony, lovage, horehound, fennel, marjoram,yarrow, mugwort, wormwood, Roman chamomile, hyssop, lavender, speedwell, angelica.
    * Many of these herbs are fragrant, for a touch of Medieval aromatherapy.
    * Add a shaded bench, gazing pool, meditation path,
    * Use fruit or nut trees as a centerpiece of the garden.
    * Other areas in a monastery garden: a Mary Garden, bible garden or one dedicated to a saint.

Saints of the Garden & Nature

St. Anselm, theologian of Our Lady's Queenship of redeemed nature,
St. Athanasius, dweller in heaven on earth,
St. Bernard, searcher of flowers for likenesses of Jesus and Mary,
St. Bonaventure, proclaimer of the fullness of Mary's blessed and immaculate sharing and glorifying magnification of God's creating, saving and renewing power,
St. Colomban, alert to find God in the woods and fields,
St. Dominic, missionary of the power of the Rosary,
St. Dorothy, bestower on earth of heavenly flowers and fruits,
St. Fiacre, the outpouring of Divine healing love through garden herbs and flowers,
St. Francis de Sales, spiritual life and growth through the discernment of their mirroring in nature's unfolding,
St. Francis, apostle of the love of God in every creature,
St. Isidore, assisted by Mary's angels in plowing the soil to feed the hungry,
St. John Chrysostom, beholder of earth as the radiance of God's face,
St. John Eudes, union with the light Christ into the Heaven of the Trinity,
St. John of the Cross, poet of the soul's mystical journey of love,
St. John, prophet of the descent of the Heavenly Jerusalem,
St. Joseph, patron of all who labor for the building of God's Kingdom,
St. Louis de Montfort, nurtured in the spiritual paradise of Mary,
St. Patrick, sanctifier of nature to quicken devotion to God,
St. Paul, teacher of Creation in the Divine Plan of Redemption,
St. Phocas, digger of earth in the hope of the Resurrection,
St. Rose of Lima, the boy Jesus and his Mother were present in the garden,
St. Theresa, showers earth with roses of heavenly love and grace.