Ozichi Brewster is the Royal Horticultural Society's first therapeutic gardener, a role that sees her running the Community Well Being Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater in Manchester. “It's amazing what a garden can do,” she says. “Once people are truly working together, weeding, clearing, tending, then everyone becomes a team and people unite. Horticulture does this so readily and easily, bringing people together.”
It's a job she seems made for but she very nearly didn't apply. “I thought I'd stick out like a sore thumb at the RHS,”
