Gardening isn’t just about growing flowers and vegetables – it’s also a powerful tool for nurturing your mind. A growing body of research shows that tending to plants can yield significant mental health benefits, from lifting your mood to easing stress. Most gardeners know this instinctively but, as somebody who has studied coaching psychology at …
In this post, I’m covering two important studies that reveal some truly powerful benefits of gardening for our mental health and physical well-being. For experienced gardeners, this is the scientific evidence to prove what you’ve known about gardening all along. New and future gardeners – when you read this, you’ll have even more reason to …
Those of us who fill our homes with plants probably know instinctively about the benefits of indoor plants. We know that house plants are good for us. And we know, somehow, that we get some indefinable positive vibe from looking at our plants, nurturing them and displaying them with care. But, extraordinarily, what we plant …