This garden opening will raise money for
Horatio’s Garden Appeal
Horatio’s Garden will be an innovative rehabilitation garden at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury. The garden will create a place of tranquillity and beauty for patients with spinal cord injury and their families.
The garden is named in memory of Horatio Chapple who had planned to study medicine and was a volunteer at the Spinal Treatment Centre. Horatio helped with research that identified patients’ needs for a garden.
Cleve West, one of the UK’s leading contemporary landscape designers, is designing Horatio’s Garden and work will start at the end of February.
The second phase of the appeal will see the addition of a greenhouse to enable gardening to be used as part of patients’ rehabilitation therapy. Horatio’s Garden will become a dynamic focus for events and training in gardening skills for both inpatients and outpatients with spinal cord injury.
Horatio’s Garden Appeal is being led by the Southern Spinal Injuries Trust, a regional charity which supports the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre and people with spinal cord injury in the South and South West of England.
For further information, please visit www.ssit.org.uk
