Please be aware that this article is for information purposes only. If you wish to use any of the plants outlined on these pages for medicinal purposes always first consult a qualified healthcare provider before you pursue any herbal treatments.
I grow so many herbs to use in the kitchen and most are herbaceous perennials or annuals, and one or two are woody herbs such as bay and rosemary, that can be grown as trees or shrubs. As I am not a medical herbalist, my first thoughts always tend towards the ways these plants can be useful in the kitchen to flavour food.
Yet after speaking to Anne Stobart, a clinical medical herbalist who created the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust (), I now realise that many of the woody plants in my garden also have medicinal properties. Following her guidelines in I could use them for that purpose, or I could continue to grow them for their own beauty - but with added respect for, and knowledge of, their healing attributes.
