Ageing with attitude: Gardening is good for the body and the mind
WHEN Cork-based Alison Flack was a child she had a patch in her father’s garden where she grew seeds. Although now in her late 60s the experience of watching those seedlings sprout in her unheated glasshouse still holds the original magic.
“There’s something terribly satisfying in the depths of winter putting a packet of seeds into soil and watching things coming up; you’d wonder sometimes what is going to appear. It keeps me busy in the winter too,” she says.
