What are the successful cases of horticulture therapy abroad?

Due to the accelerated pace of urban life and excessive work pressure, the number of people with sub-health and high mental stress in China has increased, resulting in huge routine medical expenses, so it is a general trend to learn from foreign experience and carry out horticultural therapy. In the past ten years, with the efforts of experts and scholars, the concept of horticulture therapy has been recognized in China.

Horticulture therapy is in the stage of theoretical research in our country, and the garden construction for the purpose of horticulture therapy is rare. Due to the lack of practical research places for horticulture therapy, the feedback information of users can not be collected, so the theoretical research has encountered a bottleneck. Therefore, analyzing the successful cases of horticulture therapy abroad and taking the implementation space and environment of horticulture therapy as the specific starting point is of reference significance for the application of horticulture therapy and the construction of rehabilitation environment in our country.

I. the place and practice of horticulture therapy in the United States

The United States is the birthplace of modern horticulture therapy, and its research and practice are in the leading level. In addition to the institutional construction such as the training and qualification of horticultural therapists and the special discipline of horticultural therapy in universities, the practice of horticultural therapy is also extensive and in-depth. The venue covers a variety of types, and its perennial thematic activities and related courses make it enduring.

Miami Veterans Medical Center

The institution is designed to provide veterans with a series of medical services, such as internal surgery, neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and so on. Horticulture therapy is used throughout clinical application to outdoor entertainment. The agency established a number of convalescent gardens in 1998. These gardens include a vegetable garden with raised beds, a shady garden with native plants, a shade shed for activities, and a sensory garden specially designed for people with dementia.

Burlington Center

The Burlington Center is a horticultural education center located in a hilly area that used to be a nursery and has a good natural environment. The education center is mainly for children and young students, providing practical knowledge of horticulture and botany, as well as a beautiful and quiet tourist garden. The center contains a multi-function hall, greenhouse, operating room, tree garden, flower garden, herbal garden, etc., and a therapy garden designed for students with physical or mental disorders.

Chunxi Garden Scenic spot

The scenic spot was founded in 1986, and in 1995, the government funded the introduction of community horticulture projects at the appeal of local non-profit organizations. At present, the scenic spots include children's gardens, botanical gardens, rock gardens, wetland exhibition areas and community gardens claimed by local residents. The scenic spot advocates a series of health public welfare themes, such as sustainable horticulture and ecological education, entertainment and rehabilitation, care for nature and local culture, human-to-human communication, public participation and community services.

II. The place and practice of horticulture therapy in Canada

Canada is also a good country for horticulture therapy, and the situation is similar to that of the United States. it has attached great importance to the practice of horticulture therapy on the basis of research in the past 60 years. Because of its large original natural area and sparsely populated land, the practice of horticulture therapy often has a wider place and pays more attention to the integration with the natural environment.

Guelph Rehabilitation Garden

The purpose of Guelph Garden is to serve the residents of the community, especially the young and old and the disabled, and to achieve physical and mental recovery through labor, communication and contact with nature. As the core of the garden, the community horticultural area is an area that provides horticultural teaching, operation and identification of cultivated plants. At the same time, various activities are held here, such as well-designed horticulture courses, lectures and so on. In addition, the garden also includes static tourist areas, such as the "Spiral Garden" overlooking the river, while the tree garden creates an environment for being close to nature and thinking quietly. Overall plant selection is intended to fully stimulate sensory experience.

Tianyi Farm: therapeutic Community

The farm is located in the Bosnia and Herzegovina Valley on Vancouver Island. People with physical and mental disabilities can carry out a series of gardening and agricultural activities here, from sowing to harvesting to the processing and sale of products, so as to promote physical, psychological, mental and social rehabilitation. The farm also has a therapy garden for the elderly with Alzheimer's. Specially designed environmental elements include natural scenery to gaze at, figure-8 walking paths, and raised flower beds.

III. The place and practice of horticulture therapy in the UK

Britain represents the European school of horticulture therapy, focusing on the exploration and practice of horticulture therapy from the religious side as a kind of philanthropy. The British tradition of being keen on horticulture has laid a good foundation for the practice of horticulture therapy.

The luxuriant Tronkwell Gardens

Thrive is a small national charity founded in 1978 to improve the physical and mental health of people with disabilities through horticultural activities. The organization not only provides therapy implementation and technical training, but also conducts empirical research on horticulture therapy, and has two exclusive horticultural therapy gardens.

Trumkwell Garden is located in the village of Beachhill, Berkshire, adjacent to the headquarters of lush. The garden has planting areas, ponds for wildlife breeding, and a specially designed display garden, including five small gardens adapted to people with different physical and psychological characteristics.

"Soul Garden" serves convalescent patients with stroke and heart disease.

Happy Garden serves teenagers in need of special education between the ages of 14 and 19.

The Garden for the visually impaired is designed for the visually impaired.

"Travel Garden" is a well-designed place for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped.

"Strange Garden" is a combination of novel creativity and thoughtfulness, and won the gold medal at the 2010 annual meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society of Chelsea.

The luxuriant Battersea Garden

Lush, another exclusive garden built in 1984 in Battersea Park in London, is the first horticultural therapy garden in the UK specifically for people with disabilities. Its projects are closely integrated with the community, and the service circle covers the south-west of London. Battersea Gardens, which was widely welcomed and attended by a large number of participants, was expanded at the end of 2011. The objectives of the new garden are further expanded: to train young people in skills, enhance their sense of responsibility and reduce their crime rate through horticultural activities; to increase services for stroke patients and people with intellectual disabilities, and to improve communication skills through horticultural activities; and to work with local businesses to train people with disabilities to help them find jobs.

IV. The place and practice of horticultural therapy in Japan

Although horticulture therapy has a history of only more than 20 years in Japan, it has a strong momentum of development. As the country with the highest degree of aging, Japan generally considers the use of vulnerable groups in the construction of green space, and various seminars and research organizations discuss and study horticulture therapy deeply and meticulously.

Nishino Hospital

Nishiro Hospital is a collection of rehabilitation hospitals and health villages for the elderly. In addition to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, the hospital has also carried out research on the use of horticulture therapy in the field of anti-aging. The hospital does not set up a horticultural therapy park alone, but takes the beautiful mountain environment and the interior of the building as a place to carry out horticultural therapy. therefore, the location and design of the building pay great attention to the combination with the natural environment, and fully consider the good view line of sight. The service object of horticulture therapy is basically the elderly who live and take care of during the day.

Huiguang Garden

Huiguang Garden is a welfare facility for the mentally handicapped, founded in 1957. It provides a series of services such as resettlement, medical care, vocational training and education, home care, day care, and so on. It is an institution that integrates medical care, well-being and education to help the mentally handicapped. The natural environment and gardening are important means to help these people, so the location and design of the environment strive to exert the therapeutic effect of nature. Huiguang Garden has built 26 activity units with different themes on the basis of the natural environment, and connected them in a return-style way, which can effectively train the mentally retarded people's abilities of interpersonal interaction, self-care, adaptability and so on.

V. Enlightenment

Through the analysis of the above horticultural therapy cases in Europe, America and Japan, we can enlighten the practice of our country in the future.

(2) the universality of the place: the place for the implementation of horticulture therapy includes institutional environment and natural environment, which can also be divided into indoor environment, garden environment and country environment. Each environment has a suitable population and the necessity of existence.

(3) richness of connotation: the practice place of horticulture therapy should not be just a physical environment, and reasonable arrangement of rich projects is a necessary condition for success. Project activities are not limited to horticultural courses and operations, contact with the exploration of nature, ecological and environmental protection education are closely related to horticultural therapy.