'I used to be a gardener': Connecting aged care residents to gardening and to each other through communal garden sites.

Communal garden sites can improve quality of life and enable connectedness for RACF residents. However, a range of personal, attitudinal, institutional and resource-related challenges create barriers to gardening, and in the RACF isolation and inactivity persist. We conclude that these challenges might be overcome through provision of physical and emotional support for positive risk-taking, autonomy and access to the outside to continue gardening.