Sue’s best-selling book ‘The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World’ opened our eyes to the relationship between gardening and mental health. She is joined by award-winning garden designer and designer of the PoliNations garden Chris Marchant to chat through the themes of her book, including the importance of gardens in the city environment.

Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller, listed as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times. She studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and working in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth, a not for profit, psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.

Chris Marchant is one half of Arbor Nova Ltd - horticultural consultants, drawing on the knowledge, contacts and expertise they developed over 30 years running the Orchard Dene Nurseries. They earned their reputation supplying a range of 1400 plants, grasses and ferns to some of this country’s leading Landscape Designers. Their most recent work includes the supply of plants and planting skills to numerous Gold medal winning gardens at Chelsea Flower Show, the growing and layout of all planting material for private and public schemes such as Durslade Farm, the Hauser and Wirth Gallery Garden in Somerset designed by Piet Oudolf.

This talk will have BSL interpretation throughout.