Part two in our winter garden wellness series, this week we will be focusing on nutrition and the benefits of establishing growing spaces throughout your landscape design.
Providing you with an abundance of scrumptious vegetables, fruits and herbs throughout the seasons, installing a variety of flourishing growing spaces into your garden is a fantastic way to kickstart a more sustainable and healthy lifestyle. Providing you with nutrient-rich homegrown ingredients, nurturing and harvesting produce at home is an easy way to improve your diet whilst supporting the everyday wellness of both yourself and your family.
So, come with us, as we explore a few simple ways that you can install glorious growing spaces into your landscape to boost wellbeing and the visual interest of your gardenscape.
Kitchen gardens
Constructed using a variety of raised beds, kitchen gardens are a fantastic addition to any garden as they are superb for supporting wellness and for improving both physical and mental health. Growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs is an easy way to encourage healthier eating, as your landscape provides you with fresh, nutrient-rich produce right at your fingertips. Kitchen gardens therefore significantly reduce your need for supermarket bought produce. This is beneficial as supermarket produce is usually grown using harmful fertilisers and pesticides in order to extend shelf life and to create almost “perfect” looking produce.
Did you know that tending to a kitchen garden is also a great way to boost your physical wellness? From planting to harvesting, gardening is a wonderful form of low-impact exercise that is great for encouraging greater strength and flexibility. Additionally, the act of gardening itself is incredibly therapeutic and is fantastic for encouraging a healthier mind. Being surrounded by nature and being outside in the fresh air has also been found to significantly encourage mindfulness and reduce symptoms of stress.
Encouraging a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle, talk to our kitchen garden specialists about how we could enhance your landscape with your very own bespoke kitchen garden.
Greenhouses
Extending the growing season, greenhouses are an essential feature to embed within your glorious growing space. Framing an idyllic and quiet spot, greenhouses are beautiful places where you can clear your mind whilst you plant, water and tend to your garden produce. Capturing the natural daylight, greenhouses can also be used as tranquil retreats that you can head to to read a book or to even enjoy your morning coffee. As you soak up the sunshine, this small act of sitting in the sun and receiving natural light has been proven to boost mood and has also been found to help support your bodies production of vitamin D too.
Allowing you to grow exotic plant varieties and providing you with an area to protect your plants from the harsh winter frosts, greenhouses are a must-have garden feature. Discover how our skilled team construct and craft glorious greenhouses.
Orchards
Having an orchard at home is a wonderful way to enhance wellness. Magical and enchanting garden features, if your garden currently contains a blank and expansive space, then establishing an orchard could be the perfect element to enhance your garden.
Providing you with a steady supply of fresh and organic fruits, such as apples, pears and plums, orchards are a beautiful place to pluck scrumptious fruits to enhance your homemade dishes and bakes.
Idyllic garden retreats that tempt you outside, taking a stroll through an orchard is a great way to clear your mind and connect with nature as you tune in to the delightful sights and sounds of local wildlife.
Great for boosting both your physical and mental wellbeing, orchards also have a variety of environmental benefits too. Contributing to cleaner air, providing a safe space for wildlife and encouraging biodiversity, embedding an orchard into your landscape is a wonderful way to support your garden’s natural environment.
Container gardens
Accessible and portable, containers are a fabulous way to plant, grow and nurture an abundance of garden-grown produce in all kinds of different outdoor areas. Perfectly placed on patios, within courtyard gardens and balconies too, containers are incredibly versatile features that can be slotted into a variety of tricky and challenging outdoor spaces. From nutrient-rich vegetables to aromatic garden herbs, containers can be used to grow all kinds of different plants, from juicy tomatoes to crisp salad leaves.
Yearning to make the most of your outdoor space? Get in touch today and discover how our specialist team of garden designers could shape your garden into a vibrant wellness landscape.
