BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
A happy head with Prof Harriet Gross
56 minutes Posted Jan 12, 2023 at 12:00 am.
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If you garden regularly, you’ll know that time spent tending your plot makes you feel good. When we're feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed a bit of time pottering about outside helps us feel better? But why? What is it about gardening that boosts our mood so positively? Adam Frost talks to Professor Harriet Gross, author of The Psychology of Gardening, to understand exactly why gardening is so beneficial for our mental health and wellbeing.

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