a Botanic garden Rooted in science
EMBRACING THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS FOR HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND THE MIND.
“Dilston Physic Garden is a place I come to on a Saturday and just forget the world and connect with what’s important.” Emma, May 2024
Dilston Physic Garden is a tranquil 2-acre oasis of natural habitat featuring 700 European medicinal species, each accompanied by signboards with their up-to-date medicinal properties, all rooted in rigorous scientific evidence.
Recognised for our expertise in plant medicine and our scientific research, Dilston is not just a garden to visit, but a living physic garden. We invite audiences to rethink our relationship with health using edible medicinal plants, safe plant medicine as effective as drugs, and nature for wellbeing.
What's new
We are looking at ways to sustain this wonderful physic garden to continue and expand our gardening for wellbeing and educational initiatives, and ensure a thriving future for our community. We now have extended opening, with Summer Opening 5 days and Winter opening 3 days a week, and will be bringing Friends membership soon.
As we enjoy the medicinal plants blooming this summer, we eagerly anticipate the findings from our second ‘Memory Tincture’ trial, investigating the impact of three key medicinal plants on memory. Additionally, we are actively coordinating an upcoming ‘Memory Tea’ study. If you’re interested in participating in the tea study, feel free to reach out and get involved. And don’t forget to check out our What’s On and Resources pages for the latest workshops and for information on ways to make medicinal plants part of your daily routine.
Crucially, we are also seeking more volunteers and funding – please get in touch if you can help us through volunteering, fundraising, in-kind, or through making a donation.
Support Us
As a registered charity receiving no central funding, your donation – no matter how small – is essential to help us raise the funds we need to maintain and preserve the physic garden, its community and our educational reach to young people.
