Create and Discover ’21 – arty crafts inspired by artefacts

Challenge 13– The Knot Garden

The Cathedral has a brand new knot garden. It was designed and created by our Head Gardener Graham.

The garden is planted with lavender, guara and verbena. The colours of these plants work well together and they are vey relaxing and calming to look at and to smell.

Graham took inspiration for the design from the patterns found on our Great West Door.

Knot gardens are so named because the pattern of their planting looks like a knotted rope.

The design is usually in a square frame and made up of a wide variety of delicious smelling plants and herbs.

Knot gardens were originally developed at the end of the Tudor period.

Our knot garden is situated very near where Tudor King, Henry VIII, met his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves for the first time.

For this challenge we would like you to come up with your own design for a knot garden. Look around you for inspiration. Happy designing!

Explore the 3D model of our Knot Garden