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Look after your garden

Gardening has been enjoyed throughout history as a way to create beautiful spaces for people while caring for nature. It is a wonderful hobby that can boost both your physical and mental health, as well as benefit the environment beyond your garden.

The Surrey Nature Recovery Strategy seeks to protect and enhance around 50,000 hectares of land locally. With 20,000 hectares of the county made up of private gardens, you can play your part in local nature recovery without even leaving home.

In Surrey, there are many garden centres and community gardens, including RHS Wisley and Rosamund Community Garden, where you can learn all about gardening and buy plants and seeds to get started.

Improve the look of your garden through thoughtful planting, and create a vibrant space for pollinators and insects to flourish. This simple step brings a wide range of benefits, including:

  • Having positive environmental impact: Reduce carbon in the atmosphere, improve air quality, and support local biodiversity by planting more greenery.
  • Boosting your physical health: Gardening activities like planting, weeding, and potting can burn calories and help you stay active.
  • Feeling better: Spending time in the garden has been shown to reduce depression and anxiety, while also helping to prevent cognitive decline.
  • Learning new skills and growing your gardening knowledge by joining community gardens. Garden design also offers a great way to express your creativity.
  • Building a strong sense of community: Working together in community gardens helps build lasting social connections and supports a more connected, healthy society.