article_snippet: Experts have known for decades that gardening improves our health, making us fitter and happier.
article_snippet: The findings will be used to influence the work of charities which use gardening as therapy for those with disabilities.
article_snippet: TV gardener David Domoney of ITV show Love Your Garden, who is designing the Chelsea project, said: ‘
article_snippet: Doctors have long known of the impact of gardening on health.
article_snippet: Last November a Government health adviser even suggested that doctors should start prescribing gardening courses on the NHS.
article_snippet: Dr William Bird, who advises Public Health England on physical activity, claimed every £1 spent on access to community outdoor schemes could save the health service £5 in other treatments.
article_snippet: Dr Bird said: ‘We are programmed as humans to be hunter gatherers, to live outdoors, We are not really adapted to urban life.
article_snippet: A dose of green space, really connecting people back to nature, can make a huge difference.
article_snippet: ‘Blood pressure reduces, muscle tension reduces, all of these happen within moments of going into a park or a garden.