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Plants can save your life : how to live healthier and happier with plants / Ross Cameron.

By: Cameron, Ross W. F [author. ] | Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London, UK : Greenfinch, 2026Copyright date: ©2026Edition: Revised edition.Description: 208 pages : illustrations (color) ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529447224 (hardback) ; 1529447224 (hardback) .Subject(s): Gardening -- Therapeutic use | Gardening -- Well-being | Keep learningDDC classification: 635
Contents:
50 ideas and health benefits -- Get creative with new life -- Doze by a bubble stone -- Play with Jurassic plants -- Breathe in the fresh air -- Try a yogurt tree -- Mediterranean vitality -- Orchid opulence -- Cultivate the fruit of the Andes -- Enjoy peace and quiet -- Natural balance -- Digging deep -- Cool comfort -- Inky and spooky -- Success with succulents -- Color on the move -- Perfume from the Veld -- Chill out with cool colors -- Grow your own superfoods -- Plant by numbers -- Muse with mood boosters -- Memory joggers -- The myriad life -- Grasp the green sponge -- Pushing power -- Rapid greening -- Berry bonanza -- Great and small green walls -- Cheeky faces -- Phyto filters -- Birds by the back door -- Get the blood pumping -- Flags of flame -- Fabulous fruit -- Make room for nature -- Close and personal -- Compare and contrast -- Taters in a bag -- A view from above -- Lovable lilies and glad glads -- Notes of nature -- Waking the senses -- Let's be friends -- Keep in the family -- Eastern style -- Landscapes in miniature -- Whispering grasses -- Spring into spring -- Spiritual rills -- Buzzing bee bank.
Subject: Growing plants and (if we are lucky enough) creating gardens is deeply rewarding, but has also been proven to be vital for our health. Gardening helps improve our mood, relax us, take us away from our everyday problems, and promote positive emotions. It reduces anxiety and stress, delays in the onset of dementia, promotes joy, as well as improving physical health and even self-esteem. This book explores the ways we can introduce plants into our lives and thus embrace some of the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, how this is good for your health and provides links to the underlying concept that supports health and well-being.

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Growing plants and (if we are lucky enough) creating gardens is deeply rewarding, but has also been proven to be vital for our health. Gardening helps improve our mood, relax us, take us away from our everyday problems, and promote positive emotions. It reduces anxiety and stress, can delay the onset of dementia, promotes joy, as well as improves physical health and even self-esteem.



This newly revised book explores the ways we can introduce plants into our lives and thus embrace some of the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, how this is good for your health and provides links to the underlying concept that supports health and well-being.

Includes index.

50 ideas and health benefits -- Get creative with new life -- Doze by a bubble stone -- Play with Jurassic plants -- Breathe in the fresh air -- Try a yogurt tree -- Mediterranean vitality -- Orchid opulence -- Cultivate the fruit of the Andes -- Enjoy peace and quiet -- Natural balance -- Digging deep -- Cool comfort -- Inky and spooky -- Success with succulents -- Color on the move -- Perfume from the Veld -- Chill out with cool colors -- Grow your own superfoods -- Plant by numbers -- Muse with mood boosters -- Memory joggers -- The myriad life -- Grasp the green sponge -- Pushing power -- Rapid greening -- Berry bonanza -- Great and small green walls -- Cheeky faces -- Phyto filters -- Birds by the back door -- Get the blood pumping -- Flags of flame -- Fabulous fruit -- Make room for nature -- Close and personal -- Compare and contrast -- Taters in a bag -- A view from above -- Lovable lilies and glad glads -- Notes of nature -- Waking the senses -- Let's be friends -- Keep in the family -- Eastern style -- Landscapes in miniature -- Whispering grasses -- Spring into spring -- Spiritual rills -- Buzzing bee bank.

Growing plants and (if we are lucky enough) creating gardens is deeply rewarding, but has also been proven to be vital for our health. Gardening helps improve our mood, relax us, take us away from our everyday problems, and promote positive emotions. It reduces anxiety and stress, delays in the onset of dementia, promotes joy, as well as improving physical health and even self-esteem. This book explores the ways we can introduce plants into our lives and thus embrace some of the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, how this is good for your health and provides links to the underlying concept that supports health and well-being.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Ross Cameron is Professor of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Sheffield. He has published over 70 academic papers/book chapters on landscape plants and urban green spaces. He is co-author of Environmental Horticulture - The Science and Management of Green Landscapes and he wrote the health and wellbeing chapter in Science and the Garden . He a professional horticulturalist and advisor to the Royal Horticultural Society.