Category Archives: Benefits of Gardening

Mail Order Gardening

In the US January is National Mail Order Gardening Month. At the beginning of the year Spring can seem ages away and if you want to lift your spirits then now is a good time to start planning your Garden. What plants are you planning on planting for the spring? What needs to be planted … Continue reading

Generations Gardening Together – Sourcebook for Intergenerational Therapeutic Horticulture

Generations Gardening Together is a wonderful book describing how children and the elderly can have quality time together gardening. To work side-by-side, and watch the garden take shape and grow, allows generations to bond and relax in each other’s company. The book provides information on how to create sensory gardens for the young and the … Continue reading

The Garden As a Place Of Healing

The healing nature of a garden is actually an ancient concept. The famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzar to comfort his homesick wife, Amyitis. From Japanese Zen gardens to medieval monastic gardens to modern therapy gardens, the healing power of nature has long been recognized in the form of gardening. What … Continue reading