Category: Gardening For Your Health and Wellbeing

Gardening for your health and wellbeing is paramount to balance out our daily stress in life. The topics in this category aim to provide you with options that can help when gardening for your health and wellbeing. We will explore the beneficial plants and activities, that can contribute, when gardening for our overall wellbeing.

How aware are we really when out in the garden?

There are  aspects to gardening we perhaps are not consciously aware of which can have an impact on our moods. The experiences which gardening stimulates all of our senses may just be what we need at that point in time. The breeze on a warm summers day, the taste of fresh produce that has come from your garden or getting our hands dirty in the soil. The happy hormone can be found when we dip our fingers in we do actually gain a physical benefit!

If you get pleasure from walking barefoot on your lawn, then do it more often. If you enjoy the fragrances from the flowers and foliage. Then why not develop a border or even your garden to those types of plants? I love to see, hear, and feel the movement of plants as they rustle and sway with the wind. Even on those windy days, experiencing nature in this way can feel invigorating. These experiences which immerse us into the moment certainly have a grounding effect on our wellbeing. This is why we often feel renewed and energised after being out in the garden. A mood can be lifted by physical activity. When digging or  sitting in silence the garden sounds bring us to a point of calmness, peace or a relaxation.