What does the NHS have to attain with horticulture? We’re finding out in this week’s podcast,as Sow, Grow, or Repeat embraces a Guardian-wide special on the NHS. From the plants that provide vital ingredients for cancer drugs to the therapeutic gardens that relieve people recover from illness and injury,the NHS relies on horticulture in many different waysIn the show Jane Perrone visits the Royal College of Physicians Garden of Medicinal Plants in London, home to more than a thousand plant species that have been used in medicine at some point in history; she talks to award winning garden designer Cleve West approximately the specialist garden he designed for NHS Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury, or discusses gardening therapy and the healing power of the outdoors with medical and landscape historian Dr Clare Hickman,and Jude Allan, founder and director of Sweettree Farming For AllContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com