Davina Wynne-Jones obituary

My friend Davina Wynne-Jones has died a few weeks after celebrating her 70th birthday at Herbs for Healing, the field in Gloucestershire where she had her home and business, and where she created an Eden bursting with purpose and abundance, growing and supplying medicinal herbs.

Daughter of the garden designer Rosemary Verey, Davina grew up at Barnsley House, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire. She found her mother's gardens both magical and inspirational. Plants remained an obsession all her life. She once said: "I never get bored. They are nature, healing and beauty; the whole plant has a magic that gets lost in pharmaceutical research."