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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

In this edition, I visit the world-famous Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.

The garden was established in 1670 as a physic garden with the purpose of growing plants for medicine.

Over 350 years later, there's a renewed interest in the healing powers of plants, with specific courses in herbbology and now a book containing recipes and remedies.

Catherine Conway Payne is the course director of the diploma in Herbology at the Gardens,

an author of Herbology, a Physic Garden Pharmacy.

She took me to the current Physic Garden and even though it was a wintry day,

she enthused about some of the plants she loves to work with and how they might be used to improve

health and well-being. I think this is home from home for me and especially amongst these lovely

aromatic rosemary bushes and sages and lavendaries and tithes and times. It's such a pleasure to breathe these in in the depths of winter, all this lovely fragrance.

And these evergreens, they actually hold the promise of times to come when we'll revisit

the garden and it will be burgeoning and full of the blooms of summer.

So these kind of hold the promise and hope for us,

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