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Gardens for Care Articles
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Gardens for Care: Gardening Leave"When I am at GL the fog lifts and I feel normal, just like I used to..." [Read full article] |
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Gardens for Care: The design of Poole Children's Hospice Garden (Dorset) by Amanda PattonI was honoured to be asked to design the garden for the new children’s hospice in Poole; it was both a challenge and an immensely satisfying project to be involved with. While I have been designing gardens for over 11 years, my background is in illustration, and it is as an artist that I approach design.... [Read full article] |
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Gardens for Care: Hospices for ChildrenIn December, Greenfingers, the charity of the gardening industry, opened its 31st children’s hospice garden . Greenfingers is a very small charity which was set up just over ten years ago by a group of representatives from different sectors of the gardening industry... [Read full article] |
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Gardens for Care: Thrive - Using gardening to change livesThrive is a small national charity that uses the therapeutic benefits of gardening to help people with a wide range of disabilities literally transform their lives. Thrive offers help to disabled people who want to garden at home... [Read full article] |
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Gardens for Care: Tree of LifeThe garden came into being as the result of a long-held dream of Marilyn Peachey – the fund-raising director for St. Richards’ Hospice, whom had seen a metallic tree... [Read full article] |
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Gardens for Care: HospitalsA series of articles on gardens for people who are damaged in some way, who are coping with chronic or incurable illnesses, who are recovering form physical or mental traumas, who are dying or grieving. These articles discover how gardens are an important part of care... [Read full article] |
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Gardens for careGardeners know that gardens can be calming and working in them can raise one's spirits. But there are times when gardens are more than that... [Read full article]. |
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