#5: A 476 year old herbalist visits my backyard

Herbs that cause joy, roots that soothe coughs and trees that grow birds

A few weeks ago I wrote about time traveling through the plantings in our backyard and this week I thought I’d attempt something a little different: inviting a time traveler to our backyard. 

Our time traveling visitor was born in Nantwich, England in 1545. He was a plant enthusiast and a neighbor to Williams Shakespeare. Though he died in 1612, John Ger…