Green Shoots Garden Therapy at the ellenor Hospice

It is hard to enter the ellenor hospice in Gravesend without noticing the lovely garden, visible through the building and from many of the rooms and offices.  What may be less obvious is the contribution the garden makes to the patients, families, visitors, staff and volunteers who make the ellenor the place that it is.  Just ten minutes of quiet...

The Gardening by Design website

Welcome to my newly updated website.  The website address and colours remain the same, but much else has changed to reflect a focus on Gardening for Wellbeing whether I am advising an individual in their own garden or creating a garden therapy programme for an organisation. The photographs are all new too, many from a photoshoot with Jane Mucklow Photography at...

Together TV ‘The Hospice’

The TogetherTV fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Hospice showed all aspects of life at ellenor Hospice in Gravesend, Kent for patients, families, staff and volunteers. Episode 12 included the garden therapy group, Green Shoots, that I have run since summer 2017.  You can see and hear patients talking about what they like about the group and me explaining how gardening is relevant...