A garden of dreams becoming a reality at Perry Hospital

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The

Perry Hospital Healing Garden offers patients, loved ones and visitors a quiet,

outdoor space away from hospital rooms and treatment areas. Located behind the

newly built wing at Perry Hospital, the healing garden is taking shape due to

the hard work of the Houston County Master Gardeners and the Perry High School

agriculture class.

Jodi

Daley, a Master Gardener, said the group is raising money to keep adding to the

garden and hopes to make it a place that many will visit and enjoy.

The

garden is open to all every day from dawn to dusk. Daley said its purpose is to

help reduce the stresses of illness and hospitalization.

The

Healing Garden encourages calm, comfort and relaxation. Here, you can spend

time alone to think, rest and regain emotional and physical energy. It is also

a place to gather with your family and friends to catch up on everyday life or

for hospital staff members to enjoy their lunch on a nice spring day.

The

landscape includes trees, several planters with different types of plants in

them and a water fountain that was installed at no cost by Easy Living Garden

Center.

Daley

noted that Argene Claxton, an agriculture teacher at Perry High School, and his

students have been instrumental in getting the project moving.

“It’s

great to have the kids involved in this. They have done the straw in the beds,

helped with the planting, installed the irrigation and have done some

maintence. We couldn’t imagine the garden without the touch of these students,”

Daley said.

Daley

said they have eight phases planned for the project and they have now completed

three on them.

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