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

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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

A cheerful sunny late-flowering shrub, all of Senna’s parts are used as a laxative and it has been referenced by William Shakespeare in The tragedy of Macbeth.