Flower power: Gardening as therapy in Poland [TheJakartaPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/13/174:00 AM

An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland.

Slowly a smile lights up her face, erasing her previous stony expression -- she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which often renders her emotionless.

The sudden burst of happiness is one of the benefits of horticultural, or garden therapy, as it is better known.

She is among 59 female patients at this state-run, mental health care home in the village of Ruskie Piaski who are undergoing the springtime treatment, introduced here in 2014.

[For more of this story, written by Michel Viatteau, go to http://www.thejakartapost.com/...erapy-in-poland.html]

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Julia LiottaMember

It's funny how I have found that gardening for me has a healing effect. I didn't know it was an actual therapy. I live in an apartment with no grass of my own, I use containers to keep my herbs and flowers in good health. it has been very helpful for me. Thanks for sharing. ��

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