Lileas became interested in herbs on the long walks she was taken on by her grandmother when she was a child of five. She lived in Northumberland part of the northern English empire.

Lileas’s mother always had a small garden and she grew many herbs and plants in a small patch not far from their small hut. When she was working in her garden she would sometimes call Lileas and say “isn’t this a beautiful plant” and Lileas would know that teaching was about to begin...

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