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Like any form of physical exercise, warming up your joints and muscles before heading into the garden to prune, dig or plant is very important. While gardening is a great low-impact workout, it is still important to protect your joints and muscles so you can enjoy being in the garden for longer. Joint specialists at Churchill Private Hospital and Specialist Centre advise taking a few minutes before picking up your trowel or spade to do a few gentle stretches. Here are a few suggestions … [Read more...] about It’s not just the weather that’s warming up

Rebecca Fleming’s garden is for the birds. With tall gum and oaks, an abundance of pittosporums, kowhai, banksias, Pseudopanax, young totara and plenty of flowering cherries, there’s plenty of space for all types of native and exotic bird species to consider the almost six-acre Marlborough property a home and a food source. Rebecca, a registered nurse at Churchill Private Hospital for 16 years, has been gardening long enough to know exactly what will attract the tui, bellbirds, wax-eyes, … [Read more...] about Churchill nurse creates Marlborough garden oasis

A garden is never finished, says a Marlborough nurse who, after 32 years, is still discovering ways to change, transform and enhance her colourful oasis. “Most of the plants I originally planted aren’t there anymore,” says Churchill Private Hospital registered nurse Viv Vile. “I’m always changing it around.” When Viv and her husband first moved onto their bare Blenheim section they planted flaxes, rampant grevilleas, and natives but Viv gradually discovered her passion was for flowers, … [Read more...] about Change, colour and variety the secret to gardening joy, says nurse

Churchill Private Hospital Trust’s newest community trustee hopes more Marlburians will become aware of the value Churchill offers to the region’s medical services. “My impression is that there’s a lot of people who don’t know about the huge benefits of the hospital and the Trust to Marlborough,” says Dr Elizabeth Morgan, who is also palliative medicine specialist based at Marlborough Hospice. “Churchill should be recognised for its quality of care; the variety of surgical options … [Read more...] about Churchill hugely valuable to community, says new trustee

Tennis players and spectators now have more ways to stay cool courtside, thanks to a donation from the Churchill Private Hospital Trust to the Marlborough Tennis Club. The funds, as part of the Trust’s annual community donations which this year totalled more than $70,000 across 21 different community groups, went towards the purchase of new shade sails and seating shelters. Marlborough Tennis Club President Bill Taylor says the shade sails and roofed wooden shelter seats are “a great … [Read more...] about Churchill keeps things cool courtside

Churchill Private Hospital and Specialist Centre is proud to be a major sponsor of this year’s Rapaura Springs Garden Marlborough. Tickets are on sale now for the popular event, which kicks off on 6 November and finishes with the garden fete in Churchill Glade, Pollard Park, on Sunday, 10 November. Churchill Private Hospital Trust General Manager Nicki Stretch says Garden Marlborough aligns perfectly with the trust’s aim to benefit and enhance the overall health and wellbeing of the … [Read more...] about Proudly supporting Garden Marlborough 2019