Sharon Cline

I’m Sharon, herbalist and grower at Rose Sharon Gardens.

Gardening started beside my mother. That early relationship with plants grew into a lasting question: how do living things support human health? It led me to medical school and twenty-eight years in medicine. It also led me into the study of medicinal plants.

I began studying herbal medicine on my own about twenty years ago and have learned from a number of teachers since then. That includes formal study with David Winston from 2020 to 2025, and ongoing field botany with Richard Mandelbaum, who I still walk plants with. That training, together with my years in medicine, now shapes how I grow and share plants — as an herbalist and nursery grower, not as a practicing clinician.

In the garden

Sharon with David Winston — With David Winston

What I grow

The nursery is built around three kinds of plants, often in the same bed:

Medicinal and traditionally useful plants for home apothecary gardens — species long valued for rest, resilience, digestion, immunity, and everyday well-being.
At-risk and conservation-minded plants — including species under pressure in the wild, grown from cultivated or responsibly gathered stock so gardeners can have them without taking them from remnant habitats.
Ecologically important plants for Northeastern gardens — natives and regionally adapted species that feed pollinators, hold soil, and belong in Zone 6b.

I grow in the foothills of the Appalachians in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Plants are selected and raised for this climate so they can establish in home gardens here.

Rose Sharon Gardens is small on purpose. Listings stay honest about pot size, what’s actually available, and what is still coming from seed or mother plants.

I believe the best medicine often starts in the garden.
— Grow Your Health.

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The grower behind the garden

I’m Sharon, herbalist and grower at Rose Sharon Gardens.

What I grow

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