How Plants Can Save Your Life

Growing plants and creating gardens is deeply rewarding and 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 the onset of dementia, promotes joy, and improves physical health and self-esteem. This new book explores ways to introduce plants into our lives and embrace the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, explains how it is good for your health, and provides links to the underlying concepts that support health and well-being. Written by a leading scientific authority on environmental horticulture, this unique book offers readers a wealth of ideas on planting and growing, along with explanations of the latest scientific research behind those ideas.