The Garden — Hortus Conclusus The enclosed garden: paradise recovered in miniature. Mary’s garden. The alchemist’s garden. The monastery garden. Each plant placed with symbolic intention. Rose. Lily. Hyssop. Rue. Mandrake. Vervain. the garden as sacred Royal Art space. Each plant chosen for correspondence meaning. The garden as living lapidary and herbal simultaneously. The physical space embodying the symbolic world.