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    The gardening effect

    Oct 30, 2017 4 minutes
    By Lucy Treloar

    Lucy Treloar

    Melbourne, Australia

    Artwork: Monica Barengo

    One morning not long ago, feeling low, I headed into the garden. I stamped about, deadheading spent flowers and pulling weeds. Gradually I slowed, finally stopping to watch bees tumbling in plum blossom and a starling cavorting in the birdbath I’d just filled. Calmness settled over me, my thoughts ran clearer, and I was restored to equilibrium. I call it the gardening effect. It turns out that gardening is good for us all, and for the world, in just about every way possible. In fact US biologist E.O. Wilson believes that “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction”.

    The physical benefits of gardening are well documented. Being

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