How Plants Can Save Your Life

by Ross Cameron

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 new 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.

Written by a leading scientific authority on environmental horticulture, this unique book will offer readers a wealth of ideas on planting and growing as well as explaining the latest science research behind those ideas.

Genres: Plants, Gardening

208 pages, Hardcover

Published May 23, 2023

Reviews

[Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely little coffee table book, an ideal present for a pal who’s just started to turn down social requests because they want to work on their garden on a Saturday instead of go for a pint. It’s beautifully illustrated, and the narration is funny and informative. There’s a lot of detail packed into one fairly small book, but it’s arranged so nicely that you don’t notice. It makes me want to buy a house with a garden pronto, but I do still enjoy a Saturday pint, so maybe I’ll wait a few years.

[Reagan Kapasi · Rating 3 out of 5]

For when you need green inspiration

[Kara Rowley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting

[Andrea Eppley · Rating 5 out of 5]

The authors passion for Plants shines through on the page! I found myself smiling while reading it and getting great ideas. I will say if you're looking for an instructional book this isn't the book for you, but it provides inspiration.