Hortus Medicus: The Medicinal Herb Garden
Originator and Designer, Shirley MacIver, MD

Though all of the MMS gardens share the two themes of nature and medical history and tradition, Hortus Medicus is considered the signature garden. Every medieval European university that had a medical school had a medicinal plant garden tended by medical students. Using the academic lingua franca of that time, these gardens were called Hortus medicus, Latin for the medicinal garden.

The MMS Hortus Medicus features plants with known medicinal values as well as those that do not have or have not yet been scientifially proven to have medicinal value. There are more than sixty varieties of plants growing in Hortus Medicus and many more scattered throughout the MMS gardens.

List of Medicinal Plants