Growing Together

A New Horticultural Project

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The use of horticulture and gardening as a complement to therapy is gaining recognition within public and third sectors. Therapeutic horticulture i.e. the structured use of gardening - has developed as a process. The interaction between the individual and plants and/or gardens, facilitated by a trained practitioner, is now acknowledged as a medium through which certain clinically defined goals can be met, and individuals can develop well-being.

St. Mary's Hospice is delighted to announce that due to a grant awarded by the Ellerman Foundation they will be commencing a Horticultural Therapy project in Ulverston in January 2008.

The project will provide the opportunity for a Trained Practitioner to work with patients and their carers to grow flowers for the hospice, grow vegetables that will be used in the kitchen, work within their own raised planting beds and generally be encouraged to use their inventiveness. Patients will be able to use our newly refurbished garden room when the weather is poor and work within a new greenhouse provided by the funders of the project.

Further details about the project will be updated to the website as they become available. For further details and an application pack, please contact Zoe Guest on 01229 430111.