{"id":137078,"date":"2023-05-21T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-chelsea-garden-for-our-darkest-days\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:18:43","slug":"a-chelsea-garden-for-our-darkest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-chelsea-garden-for-our-darkest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chelsea garden for our darkest days"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDarren Hawkes, garden designer and Samaritans helpline volunteer, has created a space full of empathy at the Chelsea Flower ShowDarren Hawkes knows exactly why he wanted to create a garden for Chelsea Flower Show that acknowledges life is full of fear and pain and loneliness: \u201cWhen we are in despair, what\u2019s common is, we all feel alone. We feel as if that despair is not a shared experience \u2013 it\u2019s a personal one. And so, by putting the experience into three dimensions in a public space, there\u2019s a chance it may remind someone that they are not alone. That there are other people who have experienced that.\u201dHawkes, an award-winning garden designer, gives up his free time to quietly confront this fact on a regular basis. He has lost friends to suicide and is a listening volunteer for the helpline of the suicide prevention charity, Samaritans, to whom he has dedicated his show garden. \u201cIt\u2019s not a real garden. I wouldn\u2019t create this garden for a Samaritans centre. But if, as a show garden, it helps to communicate some of the lived experiences of people who reach out and call Samaritans, that starts a dialogue.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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