The Tranquillity Garden at QMC (Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham) is a peaceful, accessible green space for patients, staff, and visitors, designed by award winning Jo Thompson with support from The 11 Foundation and Nottingham Hospitals Charity. The garden offers a place for rest, reflection, and nature, located near the tram stop by Hipp's Café, and opposite the Treatment Centre. It is a well used space by patients, staff, students and visitor to the hospital.

There are currently 7 volunteer gardeners who look after the space. We visit around 6 times a year to keep it tip top. Most of us have some link to QMC - a couple of us have received life changing treatment here. The clinicians at QMC have also supported some of our friends and relatives over the years so keeping the garden beautiful is our way of paying back. Some of us also just like gardening!

We always get lovely comments when we are out in the garden, and the garden is a well-used resource - sometimes staff just need a bit of time out and a seat somewhere quiet, sometimes it's a patient and their carer having a catch up or a group of students having lunch. There is always someone using the space. You may have heard about our resident corvid (Russel Crowe) who has been known to be very protective of the birch tree, dive bombing visitors to the point where they had to close off the path! He made the BBC news last year.

The garden has been in place for over five years now and is overdue a refresh of some of the planting! We want to add some new plants - heuchera for year-round colour, pittosporum to replace some of the ilex that didn't do well in the drought. We also want to add some new grasses, mid height verbena and some sedum to the garden etc. We also want to reduce down the anemone and geranium that is really taking over the space. We could also do with a handful of new tools. What we can do will depend on the generosity of the donations we receive. Every little helps - please help us to keep this beautiful haven in lovely condition for the future

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