Gardening For Wellbeing

Our gardening guru Conrad McCormick explores the mental and physical health benefits that can come from spending time in the garden.

It’s no secret that gardening is good for you. Even a half-hearted dabble in the borders can lift your spirits. A few hours outside, digging, planting, or just pottering, can ease a tough day and offer the kind of calm not easily found in our screen saturated world. But beyond being a pleasant pastime, there is increasing recognition that gardening has a real and lasting effect on wellbeing – both mental and physical. It’s clear from personal experience, and from others, that getting your hands into soil can ground you in more ways than one. This simple act can calm the mind, steady the nerves and help reset our inner compass. Whether it is a garden, a few pots on a balcony or a jungle of houseplants indoors, gardening gives us a connection to nature, and to ourselves.

Read more in the August issue…