I read the other day that one of the largest studies ever conducted on gardening which was funded by Innovate UK and the National Institute for Health Research had concluded that ‘people who spent time in the garden report better physical and mental health levels than those who do not’
Kiki Dee isn’t the only British artist to be signed to Detroit’s Motown Records Company, but I’ll bet you hers is the only name you’d recognise if you saw of list of British signees.
Whilst I have been a gardener most of my life, both as a professional and an amateur, there are many people who perhaps through force of recent circumstances have discovered their gardens only now during the lockdown.