Rock County

National Horticultural Therapy Week 2010 will be celebrated from March 14th through March 20th this year, as that is the week in which spring begins!  More information at the AHTA website. Adding my part to the celebration, I presented this weekend on ‘Elements of a Healing Garden’ to Master Gardeners at Kenosha’s annual “Spring Into Gardening” workshop. 

The snow keeps falling and a national news magazine announces antidepressants don’t really work.  That’s not a good combination when cabin fever sets in and all you want to do is garden. Research shows that interacting with plants causes elevated moods, reduced stressed, and over-all improved well being for an individual.  But my poor, lonely Spathiphyllum [...]

 My presentations for the January 21, 2010, Jefferson County Master Gardener Volunteer meeting.