The Medicinal Garden

Grow your garden and herbal first-aid kit with herbs, flowers and foraged weeds.

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is a brilliant guide to revitalising your health by soothing your mind, body and green thumb.

From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. Featuring forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, learn how to set up and maintain a planted or potted garden for a healthful life.

Discover the healing power of your very own medicinal garden with edible recipes for cakes, biscuits, salads, soups, teas and many more. The book features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams and washes for health and healing.

The Illustrated Garden Series description

Gardens are an endless supply of bounty. Many of our everyday needs can be met with a garden. This new series, referencing seasons rather than months, works with authors and illustrators to offer practical information in an original package on how to cultivate, grow, pick, treat, heal, observe, preserve and learn from the garden.

Series includes:

The Kitchen Garden (2022)
The Preserving Garden (2023)
The Medicinal Garden (2024)
The Picking Garden (2025)

About the Author

Caroline Parker (BHSc Western Herbal Medicine) is an herbalist, farmer, forager, and facilitator. She grows herbs and flowers for her business, the Cottage Herbalist, where she sells her award- winning, certified organic and wildcrafted tea blends. When she isn't in her studio hand- blending and packing orders, she is sowing seeds, picking flowers, prepping garden beds, shoveling compost, and tearing around on the ride-on mower.

About the Illustrator

Lucy Mora, a Melbourne illustrator, came across a charming 1870s cottage in Newstead, Central Victoria, and decided to move there with her husband and dog. It was there that she discovered her love for growing produce and preserving. Her kitchen is lined with jars of preserved fruits and vegetables reminiscent of her childhood. Lucy has transformed the "mow and blow" garden she inherited into a garden full of vegetables, perennials, and cornucopian charm.