Property News · May 20, 2016

The Chelsea garden that shows how gardens can heal | Charlie Hart


A Chelsea show garden will show how gardens can help heal people rescued from modern slaveryFollow the Guardian’s RHS Chelsea coverage hereMy mother was evacuated from London during the war. She boarded a train to Oxford aged two and would never see her own mother again. Her father came to collect her after the war but her mother, (a fiery Irish lady called Bridie, which is almost all I know about her) was never mentioned again. I now understand that my mother carried a well of pain around caused by the loss of her mother for the rest of her life. I don’t blame her. The fact her mother had just disappeared (in a conspiracy between adults) as opposed to, for example, more straightforwardly dying, I am sure made the sense of abandonment worse. Continue reading…

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