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The Soul Garden

Horatio’s Garden is a charity that provides support for the rehabilitation of patients through the creation and maintenance of beautiful gardens at NHS spinal injury centres. When Horatio’s Garden Oswestry opened in 2019, Imogen Jackson, a specialist in therapeutic horticulture, was brought in as head gardener. “A therapeutic garden must have planting that is aesthetic and multi-sensory,” she explains. “The aim is to

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