{"id":25420,"date":"2023-07-08T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/green-fingered-jodie-marsh-compares-growing-and-nurturing-plants-to-raising-children\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T08:01:22","slug":"green-fingered-jodie-marsh-compares-growing-and-nurturing-plants-to-raising-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/green-fingered-jodie-marsh-compares-growing-and-nurturing-plants-to-raising-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Green-fingered Jodie Marsh compares growing and &#8216;nurturing&#8217; plants to raising children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-07-08\" datetime=\"1688803282\" pubdate=\"\">8 July 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Page 3 glamour model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jodie-marsh\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jodie-marsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jodie Marsh<\/a> says growing plants is &#8220;great&#8221; for her mental health.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jodie Marsh nurtures her plans like they were her children<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old beauty runs her own farm in Essex farm &#8211; where she looks after more than 400 rescued animals from meerkats to deer and emus and is currently taking a diploma with the intention to become a vet &#8211; and she has revealed that she has always had a passion for gardening as it brings her a &#8220;sense of calm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She told Closer UK magazine: &#8220;Gardening has always been my passion and I&#8217;ve learnt so much from speaking to staff at garden centres. I &#8216;ve kept herb gardens and vegetable patches for years and growing broccoli, coloured cauliflowers, runner beans, strawberries, tomatoes, chilies, pretty much everything. I love growing roses, peonies, clematis, irises and beds of tulips too. It&#8217;s great for your mental health and has brought me a sense of calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The busty beauty &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t have children &#8211; compared growing plants to raising a child.<\/p>\n<p>She continued: &#8220;When you see flowers like delphiniums grow from seed and then bloom, its wonderful, and in some ways similar to raising a child, you&#8217;re nurturing something, helping it grow and making it become beautiful. When what you&#8217;ve grown returns the next year, it gives you such a buzz!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJodie shared her green-fingered passion with her late mother Kristina &#8211; who she lost in September 2020 after a battle with cancer &#8211; and she has pink roses in her memory.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;My mum and I loved shopping for plants, we&#8217;d go to the Chelsea Flower Show each year and treat ourselves to new flowers for the garden.<\/p>\n<p>\nHer funeral was themed pink and afterwards, I planted loads of pink roses in her memory on my patio, then when I moved to my farm three years ago, there were pink climbing roses all around the front door. My mum would&#8217;ve loved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/green-fingered-jodie-marsh-compares-growing-nurturing-plants-raising-children-1381737.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 July 2023 Former Page 3 glamour model Jodie Marsh says growing plants is &#8220;great&#8221; for her mental health. 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