Created with staff from NIHR (Clinical Research Facility).
The team at the NIHR chose to create a planter featuring plants which show promising medicinal properties. The NIHR team were already creating a herb rich garden for their service users and staff on site and provide a list of plants with medicinal properties some of which feature in their Warneford 200 planter, such as Agastache which is thought to have ‘valuable volatile compounds’ with several papers published in the National Library of Medicine. The ward also requested to grow functional mushrooms to reflect the significance of medicinal mushrooms to their research. We hope that the feature log will grow shiitake mushrooms following the setting of mycelium pegs along its length. The team also planted Narcisscus as trials into the plants’ potential to contribute towards the treatment of Alzheimers due to the presence of the compound Galantamine.
Image: photo of NIHR planter (Tom/Laura)
