During community discussions, beneficiaries cited multiple positive effects of the gardens on their households and communities.
Using data collected in the framework of a nationwide participatory monitoring scheme in France, we assess here, for the first time, the effect of private garden management on two important groups of flower-visiting insects, i.e. butterflies and bumblebees, at a large scale.
Related research has examined the relationship between trees and the perception of safety in inner cities, the effect of gardening on the quality of life of people with disabilities, and how the use of wood in interiors can reduce levels of stress in schools.
The garden effect of the Seine's open waters and its tree-lined banks foster in part the appearance of Paris as a city well-endowed with green spaces.
The aim of this research was to study the effect of the presence of a garden in a hospital care sector on caregiver burnout.
One is an Egyptian Garden, one is an area showing the effect of European gardening in America and the third is a neighborhood, with homes, a playground and a creek.
Allotment gardens without houses had approximately one more species than the other two types of sites (Garden vs. Mixed or House), but there was no interacting effect of allotment garden type and urbanization on neither bumble bee diversity nor abundance.
Like today, the spate of garden robberies in the 18th century was an unwelcomed side effect of a garden revolution.
They spruced up the interior a little but left essentially untouched its two greatest assets: a long windowed frontage on the street, open in the summer, and two delightful rooms at the back, in which floral displays and large skylights give the effect of an indoor garden.
The effect of the visitors to the rear garden of the Changdeok Palace on its avian fauna was minimal, and the study has proposed future plans for management of wild avian habitat, of visitors and users, of trails and natural enemies.
