Stuart found a cool gardening link in a Wisconsin paper, about how a women with cancer started gardening, helping her get through the difficult times through tilling the soil and nurturing plants. http://www.gardening4dummies.com/2006/07/woman_beats_cancer_by_gardening.html The BBC has an article about people with mental health problems working at Battersea garden project one day at a week. The man they interview said it gave him satisfaction from growing things, the feeling of achievement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5083742.stm When i have been stressed from the daily battles of working in an acute area of the NHS i retreat into the garden. After about ten minutes the stresses evaporate. Is it hard to admire plants, flowers, scents, and sounds and stay stressed out? I think most of the bloggers who garden feel those positive feelings. The hard work, the nurturing, the sense of excitement when something grows well. I have looked at meditation gardens, sensory gardens, and think in the future i will try to design one of them. The front window border will be my first attempt next year.
http://www.gardening4dummies.com/2006/07/woman_beats_cancer_by_gardening.html
The BBC has an article about people with mental health problems working at Battersea garden project one day at a week. The man they interview said it gave him satisfaction from growing things, the feeling of achievement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5083742.stm
When i have been stressed from the daily battles of working in an acute area of the NHS i retreat into the garden. After about ten minutes the stresses evaporate.
Is it hard to admire plants, flowers, scents, and sounds and stay stressed out? I think most of the bloggers who garden feel those positive feelings. The hard work, the nurturing, the sense of excitement when something grows well.
I have looked at meditation gardens, sensory gardens, and think in the future i will try to design one of them. The front window border will be my first attempt next year.