The Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity, and Health, is a not-for-profit initiative based on the understanding that working with nature can radically transform people’s health and wellbeing. The aim is to foster community inclusion through gardening and other forms of creativity.
With a career that spans 30 years, winner of a Gold Medal and Best Portfolio in the 2024 RHS Botanical Art and Photography show, internationally renowned photographer Andrea Jones will be hosting this garden and plant photography workshop which explores the rich late autumn planting in the gardens at and around the Serge Hill Project, celebrating the soft tones and textures within.
Across the gardens of the Plant Library, Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s Barn Garden and Kate Stuart-Smith’s Serge Hill there will be a wide selection of interesting plants to photograph; individually and in combination.
‘Gardening is unique amongst the creative therapies in drawing on the power of nature’s growth and in the extent to which it brings together the emotional, physical, social, vocational and spiritual aspects of life.
Some of the benefits of gardening derive from the focus on caring for plants, others from the direct influence of green nature on our nervous systems. The safe green space of a garden is calming which reduces stress and helps promote human connection.’
— Sue Stuart-Smith
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At a time when the therapeutic benefits of horticulture are so clear and cuts to social care are so common, this project will provide a space to heal. We envisage the development of the community garden as a whole team effort, with designers and volunteers coming together to create a space that will help people experience the mental and physical health and wellbeing benefits of gardens and gardening.