Physic Garden Work Days

Work Days

No Workdays Scheduled for the Remainder of 2023

About the Physic Garden

"The Physic Garden as pictured below, is the jewel in the crown that makes up the Pennsylvania Hospital gardens. The Board of Managers first proposed the Physic Garden in 1774 to provide physicians with ingredients for medicines. The idea was approved, but financial circumstances intervened and the project was delayed for two centuries. In 1976, the planting of the garden was the bicentennial project of the Philadelphia Committee of the Garden Club of America and the Friends of Pennsylvania Hospital. The garden contains the plants and herbs that were used for medicines in the 18th century."

The Physic Garden was solely a project of the Philadelphia Committee and is tended by garden club members and local residents many days throughout the growing season. Left of the compass on the map is the location of Pennsylvania Hospital where the Physic Garden is Located.