A Garden of Plants: From Poisons to Modern Medicines

This chapter explores the story of Christie, a woman who studied with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and how her knowledge of poisons influenced her crime stories as an author. It also discusses the garden's collection of medicinal plants and the concept of their toxicity at higher doses but benefits at lower doses, while mentioning the shift in focus to our relationship with plants in the modern medical age.