The positive power of plants: gardening for wellbeing

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Plants might not seem like front-line weapons in our fight to stay healthy, but as our contributors to this week's programme show, green is good for everything from coronavirus to PTSD. My Little Allotment Kirsty Ward tells the story of how she used an allotment to help her rebuild her mental health after being diagnosed with PTSD following a traumatic childbirth experience. Nurse Kate Tantam (who cared for the 84 year old explorer we featured in last week's show as he was recovering from Covid-19) explains how and why hospital gardens are so good for patients. Plus RHS Young Ambassador George Hassall shares his love of the Acer (Japanese maple).

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:34.0	What an event.
0:35.4	Our first ever virtual Chelsea Flower Show was last week.
0:40.3	I'm still recovering.
0:41.3	There was a huge array of videos and articles online, guided tours and big-name gardeners.
0:47.3	When I came back here, I had a look at the house, and all the walls at the back of the house were bland.
0:53.3	I knocked them all out and I built my own multi-tiered garden.
0:58.0	My garden in the sky.
1:00.0	Online tutorials from the UK's best growers.
1:04.0	If you want something that's going to run around, then why not go for this?
1:09.0	This is Percaria by Stauteau Superba.
1:12.6	Look at these beautiful pink heads here.
1:15.6	Really, really lovely and it produces a lot of these and mass of them.
1:19.6	Advice some of our gardening advisors and so much more.
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