I’m deeply honoured and somewhat amazed to find myself featured in the @gardens_illustrated list of Horticultural Heroes for 2024. Indeed, I’m all the more incredulous when I see who else they’ve chosen – I’m in extraordinarily good company!

“Gardens Illustrated’s top 20 horticultural heroes 2024 is a list of extraordinary garden champions who are making a difference to places, people, plants, and the planet.”

Gardening is, for me, the ultimate in holistic healthcare interventions. It’s been such a massive help to me personally over the years, as well as to my patients.

I hope being included on this list helps raise the profile of gardening as a means to better physical and mental health for us all, as well as for the benefit of the world and it’s fragile ecosystems: upon which we all depend.

Whether I’m working as a GP, for Greenfingers charity, Project Giving Back, or on behalf of @gardening4health – I’ll happily share this message to anyone who will listen, and in time, we can together make Social and Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available as possible.

To this end, I’m also delighted to become a contributor to the magazine – exploring these issues in a series of articles over the coming months – the first of which is published in the October edition. Thank you, Gardens Illustrated, for highlighting so many of the wonderful ways Horticulture can make a difference!

I’m deeply honoured and somewhat amazed to find myself featured in the @gardens_illustrated list of Horticultural Heroes for 2024. Indeed, I’m all the more incredulous when I see who else they’ve chosen – I’m in extraordinarily good company! “Gardens Illustrated’s top 20 horticultural heroes 2024 is a list of extraordinary garden champions who are making a difference to places, people, plants, and the planet.” Gardening is, for me, the ultimate in holistic healthcare interventions. It’s been such a massive help to me personally over the years, as well as to my patients. I hope being included on this list helps raise the profile of gardening as a means to better physical and mental health for us all, as well as for the benefit of the world and it’s fragile ecosystems: upon which we all depend. Whether I’m working as a GP, for Greenfingers charity, Project Giving Back, or on behalf of @gardening4health – I’ll happily share this message to anyone who will listen, and in time, we can together make Social and Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available as possible.

To this end, I’m also delighted to become a contributor to the magazine – exploring these issues in a series of articles over the coming months – the first of which is published in the October edition.

Thank you, Gardens Illustrated, for highlighting so many of the wonderful ways Horticulture can make a difference!