Summer in the Medicinal Garden – A Walk with a Medical Herbalist

£10 per person

There is something about walking into a medicinal garden in summer – the smell of crushed lemon balm on your fingers, the hum of bees in the marshmallow flowers, the silver dust of wormwood, the soft green of lady’s mantle holding the morning dew. Join local medical herbalist Kristine De Block for a slow walk among the plants in season at Amersham Museum’s medicinal garden. We’ll look closely at the herbs growing in the beds – the familiar and the half-forgotten, the kitchen plants and the older medicines – and explore the old herbal idea that every plant, like every person, has its own temperament. Kristine will share folklore, traditional uses, modern medicinal understanding, and the way these plants are still being used today by a practising medical herbalist in a busy herbal clinic and dispensary. No prior knowledge needed – just curiosity, a love for plants, and a notebook if you like.