There’s nothing better for your state of mind than losing yourself among the pots and plants mentalhealth
One of the most welcome aspects of gardening’s return to vogue is its mental health benefits. For those who grow things, gardening’s ability to make one feel, well, better, is long-established. An afternoon pottering about with plants is calming in a no-fuss-please sort of way. As the writer Olivia Laing puts it, ‘I’ve never found an activity as soothing or as wholly absorbing. It’s like being immersed in a deep, silent pool.
Like many things that feel good, I didn’t so much get hooked on the act of gardening as the way it made me feel. While I’m an innate worrier and restless soul, I’m fortunate never to have been diagnosed with any clinical mental ill health. Still, I retreat to the balcony in the same way one might to a pillow to scream into in times of frustration.
A few weeks ago I was 10 minutes into a Saturday-afternoon balcony session when I knocked a tray – the only tray – of seedlings off the ledge and on to the plants underneath. Things get bumped around a lot up here; the space is barely 150cm wide, and I am clumsy. I have become adept at dusting down and carrying on. But the seedlings were galling: they’d taken eight weeks to even produce true leaves and I’d sown the whole packet. To see them upended was, frankly, upsetting.
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