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Physic Garden
Where modern day medicine and ancient healing herbs meet
Pause and reflect in a showcase of formal design, encompassing what nature has to offer. Step far back in time. In exquisite detail, the Physic Garden features healing plants which provided medicine long before the Greek and Roman Empires.
In the garden are cornflowers, yarrow, hollyhock and hyacinth - used traditionally for as far back as 50,000 B.C. - foxglove, which provides the heart remedies, digitoxin and digoxin, and periwinkle, used to help alleviate leukemia.
Within beautiful circular paths are the traditional medicinal herbs and flowers from England's Medieval, Tudor and Elizabethan periods. Maladies such as "violent blood," and "angry snake bite," are included on interpretative panels along with uses for teas, lotions and strewing herbs, scattered to sweeten the air.