RCP garden fellow Henry Oakeley takes a look at some of the plants in the RCP medicinal garden that have been, and still are, used in the production of alcoholic drinks.

Preventative recipes and cures recommended during London’s Great Plague of 1665 were based on plants still grown today in the RCP medicinal garden.

Historical and contemporary medicinal uses for flowers, trees and herbs found in summer time in the RCP medicinal garden,

A new trail in the RCP garden of medicinal plants leads visitors around plants and flowers grown by the 17th-century physician and collector Sir Thomas Browne.

Patrice Moor is the current RCP garden artist-in-residence. She began working as an artist in 1993.

The RCP Garden of Medicinal Plants provided the backdrop for a children’s workshop about plague and plague remedies.

This summer three of London’s medical royal colleges have joined together to open their doors to the public.

The castor oil plant, which grows in the RCP medicinal garden, is used for both its healing and toxic properties.

A new trail in the RCP medicinal garden traces some of the flowers and plants mentioned in the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare.