Sir David Attenborough nature and mental health - Mind

How gardening can help mental health and well-being - Royal Horticultural Society

Nature for health and well-being - The Wildlife Trusts

Thriving with nature - WWF and Mental Health Foundation

Studies demonstrate the positive effect of the natural world on our mental health - BBC

Nature programmes help with anxiety, stress or mild depression - Leeds Beckett University

Nature on prescription - University of Exeter Medical School

Cultivating well-being and good mental health through gardening - The British Psychological Society

Stress relieving gardening - Thrive

Why is gardening good for your mental well-being - Thrive

Green Therapy: how gardening is helping to fight depression - The Guardian

Connectedness to nature makes children happier - Science and Research News

Exposure to nature reduces stress - Dose of nature

Engagement with nature improves symptoms of depression - Dose of nature

A review of nature based interventions for mental health care - Garden Organic

The benefits of gardening for health and well-being - Garden Organic

Effects of citrus fragrance on immune function and depressive states - pubmed

Effects of sunlight and season on serotonin turnover in the brain - pubmed

Gardening as a therapeutic intervention in mental health - pubmed

Effects of forest bathing on human immune function - NCBI

Sowing seeds of happiness - High Meadows Environmental Institute

The positive effects of nature on your mental well-being - Positive Psychology

Nature: How connecting with nature benefits our mental health -Mental Health Foundation

How viewing flowers provides psychological recovery from stress-Journal of Environmental Psychology

Recommended Reading

The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma Mitchell 

Emma Mitchell’s beautiful book shares her own personal experiences with depression and the ways in which nature mends us whilst exploring and discussing the latest scientific understandings of how this ‘natural magic’ works. A wonderful and insightful read.

The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World by Sue Stuart-Smith

In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience and fascinating case studies, The Well Gardened Mind examines what many gardeners have known for years - that working with nature can  transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.