Exterior Architecture is committed to strong, legible, and innovative landscape design that enhances health and well-being. The newsletter discusses Gardening Leave, which provides horticultural therapy for ex-servicemen and women with mental health issues. Exterior Architecture helped design a new Gardening Leave garden at the Royal Hospital Chelsea to provide allotments, walking paths, and sitting areas to create productive and social spaces. The garden's official opening is on April 14th.

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Exterior Architecture is committed to the
achievement of strong, legible, innovative
landscape design. We aim to produce
appealing and appropriate designs that
enhance the health and well-being of the
existing landscape, for today and for the
future.
NEWS FOR FEBRUARY
GARDENING LEAVE
This month we dedicate our newsletter to a
very worthwhile cause, and one in which the
team at EA have been actively involved. We
have been giving our time to the new
Gardening Leave site at The Royal Hospital,
Chelsea.
Gardening Leave (gardeningleave.org) was
started in 2007 by Anna Baker Cresswell to
provide horticultural therapy to ex-Service
personnel with mental health problems. The
garden projects are intended to provide a
sense of structure & routine as well as a place
to meet, allowing the ex-servicemen and
women the opportunity to work outdoors in
teams with other service leavers who have a
shared background. Following on from the
success of the first two gardens in Ayrshire and
Glasgow, work has recently begun on the new
project, situated within the grounds of The
Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Exterior Architecture
have helped with the design of the garden and
are working alongside Tara Jeewoonarain,
horticultural therapist, & David Carter, Garden
Development Officer, to transform an under-
utilised area of the Royal Hospital into a fully
functioning garden with fruit & vegetable
allotments (including raised beds & ladder
allotments for the less mobile to dig), a willow
walkway, woodland garden and plenty of
peaceful places to sit, creating both productive
and social spaces. The official opening will be
taking place on 14th April, and photos of the
finished garden will appear in a future EA
newsletter. In the meantime, if you are
interested in coming to the opening, or are
interested in knowing more about volunteering
or other forms of support to the project, please
contact davidcarter71@hotmail.co.uk.
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