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Social and therapeutic horticulture

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Sight impaired children love gardening
Social and therapeutic horticulture is the gentle art of gardening, formalised into a programme of activities for at risk individuals. Disengaged students, young refugees, disabled children and adults, patients recovering from trauma or injury all benefit from working with nature in an appropriately-designed garden setting. 

In a palliative care setting, nurturing new life is tremendously soothing. Seedlings of fast maturing flowers and fruit offer maximum benefit. Therapeutic horticulture gardens for cancer patients and their families allow life's natural rhythms to gently unfold. To everything there is a season

Greenstone Design designs social and therapeutic gardens for schools, cancer units, and rehab gardens in hospitals and care homes. Elements of therapetutic gardens design include walkways within the garden structure, providing places for gathering and solitude, for working and resting, for visiting and observing, and playing and learning … all designed to support the well-being of garden users.

In a mixed use care garden, it is good to incorporate a children’s area with natural play and equipment, sensory garden and place for families to gather. “Through the use of perimeter planting walls and planters, a vine-draped trellis, raised camomile lawn, a butterfly garden, as well as plantings and ornamental fencing it is possible to create a secure area with active and quiet zones,” says specialist rehab garden landscape designer Gayle Souter-Brown.

The following video of the garden at The Royal Talbot Hospital in Melbourne is a great example of the sort of thing we do. We have designed therapeutic horticulture gardens for the National Spinal Injuries Centre, UK, Europe's first disabled children's resort in Portugal and are working with Jasmax Architects on the grounds of Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, as New Zealand's premier rehabilitation centre.

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