The D’Youville College School of Pharmacy is partnering with the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens to grow an of healing plants. The team plans to cultivate indoor and outdoor medicinal plant gardens.
“There will be an outdoor botanical garden and indoor displays from time to time. The indoor displays are intended to be educational and will highlight the use of natural products to treat various diseases,” said Gary Stoehr, dean of the School of Pharmacy.
The indoor medicinal gardens are in place and the two sides are working together on obtaining funding for the outdoor gardens that will be available in the spring, said John Kennedy, director of Development at D’Youville.
The medicinal gardens will add to the three glass domes and nine greenhouses already situated in the botanical gardens located on South Park Avenue. Stoehr said D’Youville anticipates having students available on garden tours. Tours will be open to the public but tour hours are tentative. By Samantha Murphy and Desiree Wiley
