Thrive will help you carry on gardening, whatever your disability

Thrive is a national charity that uses gardening to change lives. We want to help people with a disability or underlying health condition to start or continue gardening.

We have practical information to make garden jobs easier, advice on taking care, useful hints and tips and details of the equipment and tools which will be particularly helpful.

If this is your first visit to our website, go to About this website for a guide to what information you'll find where.

If you can't find the information that you need on gardening with a disability, send us an email or call on 0118 988 5688.

How can I carry on gardening?

This section looks at jobs that you might want to do in the garden and gives practical information to make the tasks easier.

Each section is carefully written to help you start or continue gardening with a disability, and gives top tips for each task, advice on how to take care and useful information on the most suitable equipment and tools.

Thrive's top tips for disabled gardeners is a general section with information for all disabled gardeners, and then there are specific sections for gardening: after a stroke and with heart disease; sitting down and from a wheelchair; with sight loss; with a weak grip; with one hand; if you can't bend easily; and for emotional wellbeing.

Equipment and tools to help you

Look at the latest gardening products designed to help make gardening easier and read our general advice on what to look for when choosing and buying new tools.
You can look at equipment and tools by the type of garden job you want to do or by disability, where you will see a selection of products which are easier for people with a specific disability to use.
All the products mentioned are available from good garden centres, from gardening shopping websites, hardware stores or in some cases direct from the manufacturer.

Find out more about equipment and tools to help you.

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