<P> Today herbs are typically thought of as culinary plants, but in the traditional cottage garden they were considered to be any plant with household uses . Herbs were used for medicine, toiletries, and cleaning products . Scented herbs would be spread on the floor along with rushes to cover odors . Some herbs were used for dyeing fabrics . Traditional cottage garden herbs included sage, thyme, southernwood, wormwood, catmint, feverfew, lungwort, soapwort, hyssop, sweet woodruff, and lavender . </P> <P> Fruit in the traditional cottage garden would have included an apple and a pear, for cider and perry, gooseberries and raspberries . The modern cottage garden includes many varieties of ornamental fruit and nut trees, such as crabapple and hazel, along with non-traditional trees like dogwood . </P>

What quality would have been valued in herbs grown in the castle gardens