Health groups and those that use them have helped create a tranquil oasis at the back of a busy garden centre.
Numerous groups now meet at Baytree Garden Centre and have helped create the outside space at the rear of the cafe.
The groups include those for pain management, mental health improvement, movement and meditation and bereavement groups.
A remembrance garden for loved ones has also been created with memory leaves created in wood and using pyrography.
There are also various garden amenities which have been donated in memory of loved ones and an arch put up by the new PE11 Men’s Shed group.
In total 148 people have helped create it, while South Holland district councillors Anthony Casson, Thomas Sneath and Andrew Woolf donated money for a new table and chairs for those using the garden.
Rachel Okwuadi, along with Maxine Kehoe, are the NHS’s social prescribing link workers for south Lincolnshire.
“We came to Baytree in 2022 as post COVID-19 there were no support groups left and the bereavement groups were all full,” said Rachel. “It’s become a hub for us and we’ve been meeting every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.”
“When we started in 2023 there was nothing here,” said Karen Chard, of Greenwell Horticultural Therapy, which has helped curate the new garden.
“All kinds of people from the groups have helped create the garden.
“We can’t thank Reinhard Bielher and Baytree enough.”
A fundraising summer fair was held at the garden recently where items created by the groups were sold, including vegetables grown in the new garden.
They hope to next raise enough money for a poly tunnel and greenhouse.
