This lovely wee book is a manual on how to live healthier and happier with plants. Aside from just telling you why you should, it gives you practical ideas about how you can get more plants, and more gardening activities into your life.

To some folk the idea that plants can save your life might seem very obvious. The feed and clothe us, and have been used to fill our medicine cabinets for hundreds of years, but there is no denying we are at a remove from the actual growing of the things. There is a growing body of scientific evicence that shows that gardening helps improve our mood, relaxes us, takes us away from our everyday problems, and promotes 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. 

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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Who wrote it? 
Ross Cameron - professor of environmental horticulture at the University of Sheffield

How does it come?
hardback, 16 cm × 20 cm approx., 280 pages, with illustrations throughout