The English Garden

Healing SPACE

A year ago most of us would have struggled with the idea of being stuck indoors for months on end, unable to see family and friends, cut off from the changing seasons. Now we know what it’s like, and many of us have found it very difficult indeed. For patients in a spinal treatment centre, like this one in Salisbury, what we all experienced in lockdown was already familiar – and that’s why Horatio’s Garden is so important. The garden offers patients an escape from the clinical environment of the hospital. It is a place to hear birds sing, feel the sun on your face, and to refresh the spirits by immersing

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