In an era dominated by modern pharmaceuticals, an age-old wisdom of harnessing nature’s bounty for medicinal purposes is experiencing a resurgence. Cultivating a medicinal garden where healing plants ...

Native medicinal plants will be the subject of the next Discover Nature program at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum. “Medicinal Plants for Gardens of the Southeast” featuring Jennifer Blanchard will take ...

Angelica (Angelica archangelica) is a striking and aromatic biennial herb that brings both beauty and function to a mostly shaded garden. In the same plant family as carrots, parsley and celery, its ...

When I started my medicinal herb garden, it felt like creating a natural medicine cabinet in my backyard. Each plant held the promise of a new remedy to explore. Choosing the right herbs not only ...

San Diego Botanic Garden re-opened this week, but there’s new rules and limitations. Photo credit: @sdbgarden, via Twitter The San Diego Botanic Garden has received a $384,000 grant from the Conrad ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — About 20 to 30 years ago, the use of medicinal plant gardens for drug research slowed down in part because there was no living collection that could be used sustainably or ...

When Oregon State University landscapers David Slifkin and Dan Relyea learned that the university's budget couldn't accommodate starter plants for a medicinal garden, they looked no further than their ...

Visitors learn about individual native plants and their uses at a tour of KU's medicinal garden. The public can celebrate the summer solstice with a guided tour of KU’s medicinal garden that will ...

Drug discovery in plants has generally been hit-or-miss, with scientists cutting samples from living species, then drying them out and taking them back to the lab to see what kinds of interesting ...

You’ve been known to ease your cold symptoms with echinacea drops, or soothe your stomach with ginger. Or maybe you’re more interested in medicinal plants now that cannabis is growing into a more ...