Stories
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Active pensioners, blooming gardens
To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Sharing Nature: Parks for people
Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.
Catalogue
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Generations gardening together : sourcebook for intergenerational therapeutic horticulture / Jean M. Larson, Mary Hockenberry Meyer.
Larson, Jean M.Date: [2006]- Books
Caring for the aged / Bertram B. Moss, with Fraser Kent.
Moss, Bertram B., 1919-Date: 1966- Books
Your garden and your rheumatism / by C.B. Heald.
Heald, C. B. (Charles Brehmer), 1882-Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- Pictures
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An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
Date: [1960?]Reference: 576234i- Pictures
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An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, ca. 1960.
Date: 1960Reference: 576230i