Can I Conjure a Quiet Lake For You?
Restorative Nature Programs for Healthcare Employees
Innovative healthcare organizations are offering garden and nature programming to reduce employee stress and burnout.
Five types of nature-based programming are described here, with examples from three countries.
Improve Your Winter Mindset & Well-Being With These 3 Strategies
Is winter a snowy wonderland to enjoy? Or a miserable slog in the cold and dark? What if I told you that how we think about winter makes a difference in how we feel? A surprising bit of research could thaw our frozen winter mindsets, improve our mental health and enhance our sense of wellbeing.
Elevating Fragrant Flowers to Euphoric Heights
Take a Sensory Nature Break in an Australian Garden
If you’re immersed in winter weather, or just needing a nature break, take a moment to enjoy the sights and smells of a sunny Australian garden. Find out how visitors know which plants are fun to smell or touch.
Welcome to the Sensory Garden at the Urrbrae House Historic Precinct, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Let's go in!
Hospital Garden Eases Nurse Burnout
Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon is making therapeutic gardens a top priority for reducing staff stress and fatigue and for encouraging staff to take regular breaks in the garden near their unit. Legacy Health's interdisciplinary garden design process and their randomized controlled trials are leading the way for other hospitals.
Captivating Garden Trends
How I Started a Therapeutic Birding Program
11 Simple Therapeutic Birding Activities You Can Facilitate
Paddling on Ocean Habitat near Naka Creek
Gardening with Kids at Alberta Children’s Hospital
56 Sensory Plants for Raised Planter Gardens
Looking to engage your garden visitors with sensory plants? I've listed 56 of my favourites. These plants are specifically suited to raised planter gardens in Southwestern British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and other places with a similar temperate maritime climate.