The first ever Garden Day was celebrated by all South Africans on Sunday, 9 October.
Garden Day is intended to bring everybody together to appreciate one of life’s most profound pleasures. Everybody enjoyed this day, whether it was in their own back garden, on a friend’s farm or on their balcony overlooking their own planted paradise.
This day was a celebration of all the hard work you have done in your garden over the year. Why not celebrate Garden Day every day?
Gardening has many benefits, in fact it’s actually very good for you. It combats stress and depression and can even lower the risk of having a stroke or developing dementia. Also, gardening can help you recuperate faster from an illness.
Amazingly, it also calms down prisoners in jail. For a lot of people, spending time in their gardens brings them closer to God and nature. Also, according to Professor Paul Dolan, a UK economist and behavioural scientist, gardeners and florists are the happiest of all the professions … much happier than people in more prestigious and better paid jobs.
Rita Bezuidenhout, landscaper at Friendship Haven Old Age Home, has spent countless hours, planting and making Friendship Haven a paradise to live in. Summer is definitely here, and what a better time to get Randfontein blooming?
Our community should start getting down and dirty, and make Randfontein a paradise to live in!
Visit the Life is a Garden website www.lifeisagarden.co.za to locate your nearest Garden Centre or nursery for tips on how to make your garden a happy place.
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