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    The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants...
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    A physic garden is a type of herb garden with medicinal plants. Botanical gardens developed from them. Modern botanical gardens were preceded by medieval...
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    aside as a physic garden. William Aiton (1741–1793), the first curator, was taught by garden chronicler Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden whose son...
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    Apothecaries' Garden, established in 1673 by the Society to grow plants to be used as medicines, still exists as the Chelsea Physic Garden. The society...
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    Philip Miller (category English garden writers)
    1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and...
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  • presenter and garden designer. He is a former head gardener at The Wicken. In 2010, he became head gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Baileystudied...
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    Hospital Chelsea (the grounds of which are used by the annual Chelsea Flower Show) and Chelsea Physic Garden. In the 18th century, Chelsea Cricket Club...
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    The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (often known by its acronym as RBKC) is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough...
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  • University of Leicester Botanic Garden, Oadby Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Medicinal Plant Garden, Royal College of Physicians...
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    Hans Sloane (category Burials at Chelsea Old Church)
    Caroline. Sloane's purchase of the manor of Chelsea, London, in 1712, provided the grounds for the Chelsea Physic Garden. Over his lifetime, Sloane collected...
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  • Rock Garden Club and in 1994 he was made their honorary life president. MacKenzie accepted the prestigious post of curator at the Chelsea Physic Garden in...
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    plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton...
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  • Camley Street Natural Park Chelsea Physic Garden Chiswick House Grounds Clapham Common Clissold Park Coombe Wood House Gardens Crystal Palace Park Danson...
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  • Association Museum (College of Optometrists) British Red Cross Museum Chelsea Physic Garden Florence Nightingale Museum Foundling Museum Freud Museum Hunterian...
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    conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland—Edinburgh...
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    Argyranthemum frutescens was listed as being in cultivation in the Chelsea Physic Garden in a publication dated to between 1710 and 1714, although it may...
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    Royal Hospital Road (category Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
    Hospital Chelsea, hence the name. The National Army Museum is located next to the Royal Hospital Chelsea. To the south is the Chelsea Physic Garden. Restaurant...
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  • etymonline.com. Parry, Katy (2022-01-14). "Cupressus sempervirens". Chelsea Physic Garden. Retrieved 2024-04-28. "24/7 Emergency Care in Cypress: Fairfield...
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    William Forsyth (horticulturist) (category Scottish gardeners)
    Aberdeenshire, and trained as a gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden as a pupil of Philip Miller, the chief gardener. He took over the chief gardening...
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    Thomas Martyn. This small Garden was conceived as a typical Renaissance physic garden, inspired by the Chelsea Physic Garden in London. It grew herbaceous...
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    Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 33–46. ISBN 978-0-915279-58-6. Smith, Stacey DeWitt;...
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    Royal Society at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He also worked on microscopy and helped in the development of the Chelsea Physic Garden as a member of the board...
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  • Charlie Dimmock (category English gardeners)
    spent a year of this training at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London. After college, Dimmock joined Romsey Garden Centre. It was here that she met TV producer...
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    Oxford. She then trained as a gardener and worked at such sites as Chelsea Physic Garden, Wisley and Clovelly Court Gardens. As of 2016, she was living...
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    William Aiton (category Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
    profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he...
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    of the era by Clifford Wearden and Associates, with the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council approving its construction in 1970, as part of phase...
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    Joseph Banks (category Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
    London. From his mother's house in Chelsea, he kept up his interest in science by attending the Chelsea Physic Garden of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries...
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    and a huge "pineapple stove" to heat the plants was built at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1723. In France, King Louis XV was presented with a pineapple...
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  • West Blenheim and Elgin Crescents Garden Bolton Gardens Chelsea Embankment Gardens Chelsea Physic Garden Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Grand Union Canal (Paddington...
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  • pumping station, the last in Britain to pump drinking water by steam. Chelsea Physic Garden opens to the general public as a heritage attraction for the first...
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