The Physic Garden: Before the Season is Through

A season of open days, plant studies, gatherings, and connections made.

The Physic Garden is free and open for women to visit 12–4pm each day on one long weekend per month from March until November. 

 Open Day Dates:

• Friday 19 — Sunday 21 September 2025
• Friday 10 — Sunday 12 October 2025
• Friday 14 — Sunday 16 November2025

Monthly plant studies are on Sundays from 12–1pm. Plant studies are an artist-shared observation and listening practice. Each study is being produced as an A5 card which is available to use in the garden and take home, thanks to support from Great Places. 

Physic Garden Location - bottom of Hargreaves Street, Nelson, BB9 7BX

Full Timetable here

Visiting The Physic Garden is free and open to women only.

All women are welcome.

Step carefully as the garden is hand made, its slopes, paths and steps can be loose or uneven. Please be careful of the canalside edge.

Children must always be accompanied by an adult.

Please no dogs other than guide dogs.

Please take inspiration, photographs, knowledge, strength and encouragement from the garden but we respectfully ask you not to pick the plants.

Please leave the garden as you find it.

Open garden - public opening hours - make yourself at home. We will be working somewhere in the garden.

Plant study group - A free monthly workshop - meeting medicinal plants throughout the seasons

About Idle Women

Idle Women is an arts and social justice collaboration founded by artists.

Our projects reach for something beyond the horizon, creating transformative spaces for women that can't be cut, closed or taken away. 

Spaces include the Physic Garden, Selina Cooper (narrowboat), physicgarden.network and stadiumfuture.space.

We are a collaboration with women from any and all walks of life. We believe women deserve better and work to our strengths because we know that transformation is a daily process, there are always other ways and beauty is complicated.