Vegetation in private gardens contributes significantly to plant species richness and vegetation volume across urban areas. Drivers of garden diversity and structure are complex, reflecting the diversity of social, cultural, and socioeconomic characteristics of the householders who manage their gardens, as well as their predecessors. Here we investigate the woodiness of gardens, and focus on (1...

Community gardens are viewed as a potentially useful environmental change strategy to promote active and healthy lifestyles but the scientific evidence base for gardens is limited. As a step towards understanding whether gardens are a viable health promotion strategy for local communities, we set out to examine the social processes that might explain the connection between gardens, garden parti...

Experimental research shows that there are perceived and actual benefits to spending time in natural spaces compared to urban spaces, such as reduced cognitive fatigue, improved mood, and reduced stress. Whereas past research has focused primarily on distinguishing between distinct categories of spaces (i.e., nature vs. urban), less is known about variability in perceived restorative potential ...

Food is an essential physiological, cultural and social component of human life. How food is produced and consumed has dietary, cultural, environmental, ethical and societal consequences. Despite the central role that food plays within individual lives, public understanding of food and the wider agro-food system varies; much of this existing knowledge is acquired informally in kitchens, homes a...

The Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) is an international partnership of botanic gardens and arboreta that aims to preserve understand the genomic diversity plants on Earth. GGI-Gardens has organized a collection program focused living collections partner institutions supports preservation herbarium vouchers. Collections made through are deposited in recognized herbaria Biodive...

iranian islamic gardens like almost every cultures, represent beauty and happiness and improve the public perception. it has also special geometry with philosophical concept related to islam’s doctrine that is the focus of this research. following quran’s contents, paradise is a beautiful sophisticated garden that something flows under its trees. so the comparison between the somatic geometry o...

Twenty community garden programs in upstate New York (representing 63 gardens) were surveyed to identify characteristics that may be useful to facilitate neighborhood development and health promotion. The most commonly expressed reasons for participating in gardens were access to fresh foods, to enjoy nature, and health benefits. Gardens in low-income neighborhoods (46%) were four times as like...

a Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK b Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London SE5 9RJ, UK c Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK d Medical Re...