UP Garden

a poster for the urban psychic garden

Physic (physician/doctor/apothecary) – a place for healing and wellbeing.

Plants and medicine, gardening and healing have long been entwined.
Urban environments can be busy, stressful, hard at times.
An Urban Physic garden offers a place to slow down.
A place for plants, creative arts and science to merge.
A safe place to nurture our plant kin and ourselves.

When Jude Sellen Cole approached Bensham Grove with the concept of creating an Urban Physic Garden for wellbeing, we were delighted to offer her a small corner of our grounds to bring her idea to life.

Jude and her volunteers (along with some help from Bensham Grove volunteers) worked hard over the next 15 weeks to clear the land and make it ready for the planting that would soon begin.

Jude has also been working in collaboration with other projects, most recently with WovenLives to create willow panels as part of an outdoor Art Installation.