Posts Tagged ‘Garden Therapy’
February 11, 2021 Gardening for Health, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Should Botany Be Taught In Schools, Saving the Sakura, Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson, and Garden-Inspired Verses About Love
Today we celebrate a woman who was insatiable when it came to plants, and she is remembered forever with the Portland Rose. We’ll also learn about a famous speech given at a Vermont botanical club about why botany wasn’t taught in schools – and the reasons were pretty spot on. We hear a story about…
Read MoreDr. Oliver Sacks on the Power of Visiting Gardens: Places to Find History, Lessons, and Healing
“The garden has affected me and does affect me in various ways; it’s not just the pleasure of walking around but [also] the very special virtues of the library and the museum and the fact that, in some ways, this is a university as well as a garden.” September 19, 2019 I recently had the…
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