Herb garden serves as living library on Georgia Southern Armstrong campus
Throughout history, herbs and plants have been cultivated not only as tasty fare, but for their medicinal purposes. Greek and Roman scholars as early as 300 B.C. created volumes of works about these healing plants which inspired centuries of European physicians and apothecaries. A new garden at the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus serves as a physical tribute to these eras of herbalism featuring dozens of medicinal herbs, trees and shrubs. Called the Physic Garden, it serves as a living library for students to learn more about the plants' healing properties, many of which are still used today. It is part of the arboretum on the Armstrong campus. "The plants we selected for this collection, they needed to be able to grow in Savannah because many are native to Europe, and have been used for medicinal purposes," said Philip Schretter, grounds superintendent, on the Armstrong Campus. "We wanted these plants to be referenced as an important herba...
