The flowery mead is planted with spring and summer flowering plants such as yarrow, lady’s bedstraw, oxeye daisies, muskmallow and bee orchids. The surrounds are planted with sweet smelling herbs and flowers, including rue to “drive away noxious vermin from the garden” (Albertus Magnus 1260).
The Mead also contains fruit trees with “perfumed flowers & agreeable shade.”
| Botanical name | Common name |
| Acer campestre | Field maple |
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
| Alcea rosea | Hollyhock |
| Arum maculatum | Lords and Ladies |
| Campanula rapuncalus | Rampion |
| Cornus mas | Cornelian Cherry |
| Cornus sanguinea | Dogwood |
| Cydonia oblonga | Quince |
| Euonymus europaeus | Spindle bush |
| Fumaria officinalis | Common fumitory |
| Galium verum | Lady’s bedstraw |
| Hypericum perforatum | St Johns wort |
| Lamium purpureum | Red dead nettle |
| Leucanthemum vulgare | Oxeye daisy |
| Malva moschata | Musk mallow |
| Mespilus germanica | Medlar |
| Morus nigra | Mulberry |
| Muscaria botryoides | Small grape hyacinth |
| Ophrys apifera | Bee orchid |
| Papaver rhoeas | Field poppy |
| Plantago lanceolata | English plantain, ribwort |
| Primula elatior | Oxlip |
| Primula vulgaris | Primrose |
| Ranunculus acris | Meadow buttercup |
| Ranunculus ficaria | Lesser celandine |
| Ranunculus repens | Creeping buttercup |
| Senecio vulgaris | Groundsel |
| Tanacetum parthenium | Feverfew |
| Trifolium pratense | Red clover |
| Urtica dioica | Nettle, Wergula |
| Verbascum thapsus | Great mullein |
| Vicia sativa | Common vetch |