Garden
Plant something from your childhood Gardens can be powerful places for connecting us to our roots. Perhaps you remember smelling a specific type of flower your grandmother grew, biting into a homegrown tomato or climbing among the branches of a certain type of tree. Try putting one or more of these nostalgic plants in your own garden as a way to honour that memory or loved one.
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Engage the senses Scent is a powerful memory trigger. If there’s a fragrance you associate with a time period in your life or a loved one, adding this scent to your garden can take you right back. If you don’t have something in particular you’d like to plant, you can’t go wrong with David Austin’s ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ rose, a pink shrub rose with a cabbage centre and an old-fashioned rose fragrance. Adding plants for texture, such as fuzzy silver ragwort (Jacobaea maritima), or for movement, such as ornamental grasses that sway in the slightest breeze, is another way to engage the senses and make you feel more connected to a garden.
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