by johnah on October 29, 2020
How To Create A Healing Garden?
In order to make a healing garden, it is necessary to have some basic knowledge about gardening. You need to know how to grow certain types of plants and flowers. Also you need to know what kind of soil and water are required for growing these plants and flowers. If you want your own personal healing garden then you will definitely need to learn how to do all this stuff yourself.
You may think that you don’t have any experience with gardening or if you do, it’s only minor. However, if you actually take the time to learn about gardening, you will realize that there are many different kinds of plants and flowers which require different kinds of soil and water. For example, you can’t plant tomatoes in a sandy soil because they won’t grow well. Similarly, you cannot plant roses in a clay soil since they won’t grow well either.
Soil and water are the two most essential ingredients for making a healing garden.
Gardening is not just about planting seeds and watering them once in awhile; it involves understanding what kind of plants and flowers will thrive best under specific conditions. Healing garden plants and flowers also have specific conditions that need to be taken care of. This means that you need to know about the right kind of soil, sunlight, water, and more in order to maintain the plants and flowers properly.
When you are thinking about creating a healing garden at a hospital, you not only have to make sure that the plants and flowers will thrive, but you also have to think about the patients who will potentially be spending a lot of time in this garden.
Sources & references used in this article:
What makes a garden a healing garden by U Stigsdotter, P Grahn – Journal of therapeutic Horticulture, 2002 – carstenoerting.dk
Experiencing a garden: A healing garden for people suffering from burnout diseases by U Stigsdotter, P Grahn – Journal of therapeutic horticulture, 2003 – researchgate.net
Healing gardens: Therapeutic benefits and design recommendations by CC Marcus, M Barnes – 1999 – books.google.com
Horticultural therapy: the ‘healing garden’and gardening in rehabilitation measures at Danderyd Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic, Sweden by I Söderback, M Söderström, E Schälander – Pediatric rehabilitation, 2004 – Taylor & Francis
What is a healing garden by S Pouya, Ö Demirel, E Düzgüneş… – Mediterranean …, 2015 – researchgate.net
Humane design for hospital landscapes: A case study in landscape architecture of a healing garden for nurses by JR Naderi, WH Shin – HERD: Health Environments …, 2008 – journals.sagepub.com
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