Tag: Gardens and health

  • A QN in Cumbria traces past, present and future

    Galesyke Garden, owned by the McKinley Family, opens via National Garden Scheme and benefits nursing and caring charities.

  • The Power of Therapeutic Gardens to Change Lives

    Neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote of “the pure and intense joy, a blessing, to feel the sun on my face and the wind in my hair, to hear birds, to see, touch and fondle the living plants. Some essential connection and communion with nature was re-established” upon leaving hospital after a spell of several weeks.

  • Gardens and Volunteering

    “Opening my garden again for the first time since the pandemic felt like quite a big decision. But it gave me a focus and a goal through the winter months, an extra reason to get outside with hat, coat, boots and gloves on.”