Aug 1, 2021 | Garden, General News
Our medicinal garden is turning 50 this year and we’re celebrating! The Mercer Reeves Hubbard Medicinal Garden, named after a museum volunteer who helped organize and implement the garden, was created in 1971. The wagon wheel design drawn by famed North Carolina...
Sep 12, 2020 | Garden, General News
General News One of the prettiest flowers grown in the Country Doctor Museum’s medicinal garden is foxglove (Digitalis). The observations of the foxglove by William Withering, an 18th century English physician, elevated a traditional folk...
Jun 24, 2020 | Garden, General News
General News Museum staff were disappointed not to plant the museum’s medicinal garden this spring due to Coronavirus stay-at-home orders. However, we were pleasantly surprised to see how much of our garden grew back on its own, seemingly not needing our TLC! Our...
