Therapy garden design

Planting Design project focused around creating a Japanese-style healing garden for a hospital in Janesville, WI.

The debate on whether a design is good or bad is a never-ending one. From terrible public space "solutions" to ideas so bad, it’s hard to believe someone came up with them, we've covered plenty of the latter over the years. So how about we balance out the scales a little bit?

Mark Lane, the UK's first garden designer in a wheelchair and presenter on BBC Gardeners' World, with his top tips for a safe, secure and beautiful garden.

On approach to the guesthouse, the family keeps an edible garden in concrete planters by the property’s landscape designer, Cielo Sichi of Landfour. Tagged: Outdoor, Garden, Back Yard, Front Yard, Side Yard, Gardens, Raised Planters, Walkways, and Trees.

From urban hospital gardens to penguin viewing areas, from gorge trails to cultural precincts, the National Landscape Architecture Awards focused on green spaces and sustainable infrastructure

"Unlike any other art form, a garden is designed for the future, and for future generations," thought Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994), an innovator pioneer who shunned imported blossoms and shapely worked areas of rich local greenery and sculptural lily lakes....

Horticultural Therapy is, in a nutshell, the use of plants, gardens, and other aspects of nature to improve people’s social, spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being. Check out the HT page on the TLN website, and the organizations American Horticultural Therapy Association and the Horticultural Therapy Institute for more information. The new book, Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based […]

Interior courtyard

There is a lot out there on healing spaces.... When architects and sociologists and others look at what it takes to create healing envi...

Hopscotch Garden Stepping Stones