St. Anne’s Physic Garden
Dublin
The St. Anne’s Physic garden is a joint initiative between the Irish Register of Herbalists (IRH) and Dublin City Council Parks Department. The garden was created to showcase traditional medicinal herbs and allow the public access to these wonderful healing plants. We the IRH, want to facilitate further education for the public, on herbal medicines and the history, lore and use of plants as medicine in Ireland.
What is a Physic Garden?
A physic garden is a collection of medicinal herbs in this case planted in the formal style of Italian sunken gardens as used in monastic settings.
The garden at St. Anne’s Park, which has featured on RTE’s Nationwide programme, is open to the public and for educational purposes.
Herb walks at the Garden
A qualified herbalist will be present on certain dates to answer questions.
Every first and third Saturday during the Summer months 10:00am to 4:00pm, an IRH herbalist will be in attendance giving herbal walks and talks usually at 12pm and 3pm.
We had a very busy day in the garden . We are half way through putting in beautiful new Hidcote lavender in our borders. Looking forward to welcoming all the pollinators this summer. Managed to get all our wonderful volunteers to help on the day. A wonderful bunch of people
Great work
Great job 👍 well done everyone
Wow is the old lavender gone?
Physic Garden is such a lovely space
Great job 👏cannot wait to see it
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What about the recent total destruction of the back section?Alls thats left is a bare brick wall which was previously completely obscured by greenery, parks dept I presume, nothing under 6 feet is safe from them.Does the Botanical Gardens not teach them anything about interdependence with wildlife?
Garden is open over the Easter weekend. Pop in and see how our plants are doing.
Herb walk with Brigid Mayes on saturday Oct 4th at 12pm. Looking forward to seeing you there. 🌿
Join us tomorrow for the last herb walk of the year. 12 oclock in the physic garden
Lavender cutting day. Come and help yourself from the yellow bag if you're in the park.
The gates are locked. Was this an old post?
Well done today, big job.
Thank you so much for the lavender supply. Drying now in my shed for the next Lavender for Uganda project 🪻🪻🪻
Great job 👏
We enjoy the garden's beauty & fragrance Always So Tranquil & relaxing
About St. Annes Park
St. Anne’s park is Dublin’s second largest public park and is located in the Clontarf/Raheny area.
It began as the estate of members of the Guinness family beginning with Arthur and Benjamin Lee Guinness. An italian style estate house was built, which unfortunately was destroyed by fire and demolished in 1968.
Sir Arthur Edward Guinness and his wife Olive (Lord & Lady Ardilaun) developed the estate further after Lord Ardilaun inherited it in 1868, planting the beautiful Holm Oaks that line the main avenues and perimeters of the park. They however remained childless and the estate was passed onto Bishop Plunkett who eventually sold most of the estates parkland to Dublin Corporation.
The physic garden is located in the heart of the park in the old walled garden of the estate. The garden is adjacent to a herbaceous border; Chinese Suzhou garden and the park’s miniature rose garden and overlooked by the original estate clock tower.
