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Your view36 Insight Magazine Winter 2025 Your viewSonia Booth,Glaucoma UK member%u201cBeing in the garden or stomping off for a walk has always been my way of managing stressSonia%u2019s story: my garden (rescue) and meHaving lived with stable, wellmanaged glaucoma since my mid-20s, I just got on with life. That thought was always there in the back of my mind though: %u201cWhat happens if the drops stop working?%u201d Rationally I knew that with regular checks and daily drops the chances are that it would be fine for many years to come, and I was right. Skip forward 20 plus years and all was well. I had an active lifestyle in the outdoors and always enjoyed gardening; an interest that developed in my teens. Little did I know then just how important my garden would become.During lockdown, I was so thankful for my garden. When I moved to Shaftesbury in 2008, it was a sad patch of grass and concrete pavers. That winter, I got so depressed because I had left a lovely cottage garden in my previous house. In 2009 my garden was made over, and I felt so much happier. I find plants calming, Photos courtesy of Sonia Booth being in the garden or stomping off for a