Spring: connecting with gardening
Wheelchair user, gardener and BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Mark Lane speaks to Emma Storr about the importance of plants and his top gardening tips.
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Gardening: celebrating Mother’s Day with Leonard Cheshire
Ahead of Mother’s Day, charity Leonard Cheshire are encouraging you to have a cuppa with BBC TV Gardener’s World presenter Mark Lane and learn how to plant your own hanging basket.
Our top five tips for gardening at home
Right now, it’s all about finding happiness in the little things. For people with green fingers or beginners in the gardening department, we’ve rounded up our top tips for gardening at home
Getting green fingers this National Gardening Week
This week (29 April – 6May) is National Gardening Week, where we’re all encouraged to get outside, utilise the green spaces closest to us and give our gardens some TLC.
Keeping active this summer with accessible activities
Exercise is good for your mental and physical wellbeing. When you exercise, your brain releases endorphins: your body’s natural painkillers that help to boost your…
Allotment Week! Time to get green fingered and boost your health.
Budding horticulturalists take note – gardening is now more accessible than ever before. Gardening is a rewarding hobby with wide-ranging benefits, from improving your health…
Thrive part of £1.3 million project to transform gardens to support people with dementia
National charity Thrive is pleased to be part of a pioneering project which will make gardens and outdoor space at dementia care settings across the…
Dig It
Tim Rushby-Smith reflects on what he gets out of his garden – and encourages you to get out there and enjoy everything your own has to offer FILL…
£50,000 boost for disability gardening project in Lancashire
A gardening project in Lancashire to support people with physical and mental health problems has been awarded almost £50,000 after television viewers voted for it to receive…
Charity’s grounds maintenance service helps people from Hampshire to blossom and find work
Shaw Trust’s unique county-wide gardening service based in Basingstoke and Portsmouth is celebrating its success in supporting 11 people into work since October 2013. Shaw…
Roots to Recovery
A brand new and invaluable service, providing horticultural therapy to military servicemen and women as part of their recovery and rehabilitation, will soon be putting…
Transformed to delight the senses
The garden of two homes for adults with learning difficulties operated by care provider Regard, has been transformed into an environment to delight the senses…