Chelsea Physic Garden launches new pharmaceutical garden - July 6, 2005

I came across the interesting article via a Delicious link (noted below). While the article is about this new garden, it provides a detailed history of Chelsea Garden, its work and the threats to its existence over the years. Quite Interesting, even if you aren't planning a trip to London any time soon.

Timely cures: a new pharmaceutical garden in an old one

On July 6 the Chelsea Physic Garden will celebrate the new millennium by launching "Timely cures: pharmaceutical plants at the millennium", a new pharmaceutical garden and an exhibition of photographs by Sue Snell of medicinal plants and patients who are being treated with medicines derived from them. This article describes the new garden and outlines the importance of the physic garden as a centre for plant sciences over the past 300 years

(Via del.icio.us/tag/gardening.)