Tend & MEND
Well-being – the state of being healthy, happy and comfortable – is very much front of mind in horticulture today. With show gardens such the RHS Back To Nature Garden – designed by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge and landscape architects Andrée Davies and Adam White – at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and scientific studies on horticultural therapy being conducted by such revered bodies as the University of Exeter and The King’s Fund, it is generally acknowledged that we have more to learn about our engagement with green space and nature and the ways in which we can benefit.
A National Centre for Horticultural Science and Learning will open in 2021 at RHS Wisley in Surrey, surrounding which will be a Health and
