The Physic Garden, Cowbridge - September 2014

Back in September, I spent a day shopping in the pretty little market town of Cowbridge with my mother. We particularly enjoyed spending time in the newly restored Physic Garden.

Originally part of the Old Hall Gardens, dating back to the 18th century, the garden is an oasis of calm and tranquillity in the heart of the town, full of bees and butterflies. The volunteers who restored the garden in recent years have done a wonderful job, turning a neglected wasteland into a glorious array of medicinal plants and herbs, typical of physic gardens from centuries past - a fascinating variety of species that would traditionally have been used for healing, cooking and dying fabrics - all neatly organised and laid out as formal gardens.

And there was also this:

An Ode to Laudanum!