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Hospitals garden is latest stop for visitor studying natures health benefits
Australian scholar on worldwide fellowship tour studying plants' therapeutic benefits
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Anne’s Garden at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville was one of many gardens Steven Wells, a visitor from Australia, has toured over the past five weeks. Wells came to visit NGMC as a part of a Churchill Trust Fellowship, which allowed him to travel for seven weeks to see gardens in different climates around the world. - photo by Erin O. Smith
The truth of grandma’s sayings about the benefits of gardening and nature was a subject for conversation Thursday in Anne’s Garden at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Mark Fockele, owner of the Fockele Garden Co., talked with Steven Wells, a visitor from Australia, about the therapeutic benefits to health of gardens. Fockele touted the benefits of garden as “one of those home truths that we all know to be true, but we can’t prove them.”