Seen in the Physic Garden

Sunday in The Physic Garden

Autumn in the Physic Garden

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looking down onto a large tub of snowdrops in Chelsea Physics Garden

Chelsea Physic Garden

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Kiwi Fruits growing on the wall

Seen in the Physic Garden

Springtime in The Physic Garden

Double helix sculpture celebrating the recent 350th anniversary (also doubles as a support for the Himalayan musk rose)

Springtime in The Physic Garden

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The start of Spring in the Physic Garden - Apricot blossom

Here come the tulips

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Springtime in Chelsea Physic - peony

Cowbridge Physic Garden was originally part of the Old Hall Gardens, laid out by the Edmondes family in the 18th century. Badly neglected in the 20th century it was brought back to life by enthusiastic volunteers and today is a glorious array of medicinal plants and herbs, typical of physic gardens from centuries past.

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Chelsea Physic Garden

Springtime in The Physic Garden

A volunteer at work

The front of the information card for The Urban Physic Garden

The Urban Physic Garden

This summer an Urban Physic Garden is blooming on a slice of neglected London land. This pop-up community garden, realised by a collective of designers, urban growers and volunteers, is shaped by the hospital and the pharmacy, and brings together an array of healing herbs and medicinal plants.

Produced by Wayward Plants, the designers of the Union Street Urban Orchard, the medicinal plants will be organized by hospital department in a community-built landscape of reclaimed timber, salvaged materials and donated plants. Summer in the Urban Physic Garden will be a festival of talks, workshops, film screenings and events.

A decommissioned ambulance will become the kitchen of Rambling Restaurant, serving up a changing, seasonal menu featuring home grown herbs, leaves and vegetables. A horticultural A&E department will take care of sick plants, an operating theatre will be a performance space, and the garden will be filled with artist interventions and play structures. The garden will provide a platform for artists, designers, gardeners and health practitioners to explore productive roles of plants in our health, well-being and environments.

The Urban Physic Garden is designed and produced by Wayward Plants in partnership with London Harvest, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, Publica, King's College Museum of Life Sciences, Living Medicine and Rambling Restaurant. The schools and family programme is run in collaboration with Bankside Open Spaces Trust and Tate Local.

Illustration:.Alison Moffett

Design: Lizzie Frost

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University of York, Department of Physics (left)

@Chelsea Physic Garden, London, UK

The start of Spring in the Physic Garden

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Seen in the Physic Garden