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Combatting loneliness with Andrew Kingston

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Is There a Connection to Green Space Within the NHS?

Gardens are a great place to help people, as I was saying before. It's about giving somebody the confidence to be with other people and involved in something. A lot of mental health treatment is based on talking. And that's not always what people need, actually. The physical experience of getting your hands into soil, deadheading things, just the tangible stuff about being in a garden can give people a degree of confidence they might not have been experienced.

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