The pool garden is planted with a range of plants known to have had many uses in the house such as pot pourri, insect repellants, air cleansers, washing and clothes freshening. The four borders are planted around a central rose (Rosa gallica officinalis and Rosa gallica) which are known to have particularly fragrant dried petals which were important for pot pourri. Other plants for this purpose included lemon balm, lavender, southernwood and fennel.
Plant list
| Botanical Name | Common Names |
| Ajuga reptans | Bugle |
| Anthemis nobilis | Roman chamomile |
| Aquilegia vulgaris | Columbine |
| Armeria maritime | Thrift, sea pink |
| Artemesia abrotanum | Southernwood, Lad’s love |
| Artemesia vulgaris | Mugwort |
| Artemisia absinthium | Wormwood |
| Balsamita major tomentosum | Camphor plant |
| Bupleurum falcatum | Sickle-leaved hare’s ear |
| Centaurea cyanus | Cornflower, Bachelors button, Bluebottle |
| Chrysanthemum segetum | Corn marigold |
| Festuca glauca | Grey fescue |
| Foeniculum vulgare | Fennel |
| Galium odoratum | Sweet woodruff |
| Geum urbanum | Herb Bennet |
| Helleborus foetidus | Setterwort |
| Helleborus niger | Christmas rose, Black hellebore |
| Iris germanica | Purple fleur-de-lys |
| Iris germanica florentina | Orris |
| Lavandula stoechas | French Lavender |
| Linum usitatissimum | Flax |
| Lonicera periclymenum | Common honeysuckle |
| Lysimachia vulgaris | Yellow loosestrife |
| Melissa officinalis | Lemon Balm |
| Mentha pulegium | Pennyroyal, Lurk in the ditch, Pudding grass |
| Nigella damascena | Love in the mist |
| Nymphaea alba | White water lily |
| Plantago coronopus | Bucks horn plantain |
| Primula elatior | Oxlip |
| Primula elatior hose-in-hose | Hose-in-hose oxlip |
| Pulicaria dysenterica | Fleabane |
| Pulicaria dysenterica | Fleabane |
| Rosa gallica | French rose |
| Rosa gallica officinales | The apothecary’s rose. Red rose of Lancaster rose of Provins |
| Rosa x alba maxima | York rose, The Jacobite rose, Great double white |
| Ruscus aculeatus | Butchers broom |
| Ruta graveolens | Rue |
| Salvia officinalis | Sage |
| Salvia officinalis purpurea | Purple sage |
| Saponaria officinalis flore plena | Soapwort, Bouncing bet, Farewell summer |
| Tanacetum vulgare | Tansy, Parsley fern |
| Tolpis barbata | Milkwort, European umbrella milkwort |
| Verbascum thapsus | Aaron’s rod |
