Gardening in Florida. How to deal with bugs. What grows in Florida that won't growth in the northern climates.

Yankee's Guide to Florida Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bruce, Hank

Bruce, Marlene

Gardening & Landscape Design

Winner Enterprises

Uncommon Scents: Growing Herbs & Spices in Florida

This book is a guide for horticultural therapists and activity professionals that includes 31 themed gardens and over 200 activity and craft projects that can be done using the plant material being grown. The gardens range from indoor and outdoor sensory gardens to Tarzan"s Jungle Garden, Growing a Bird Feeder, Edible Flower Garden, and a Memory Album Flower Garden. There's even a garden from after dinner pits and peelings. Other chapters discuss gardens created for sharing, for sensory stimulation, food production and butterflies. This book opens the door to gardening possibilities indoors and out, for people of all ages and functioning levels. It focuses on the use of a wheelchair friendly portable garden, but the gardens are adaptable and can be used in a wide range of venues from senior care faculties and schools to hospitals and private homes. The book contains a discussion of the value of gardening as therapeutic exercise involving the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. There's also a list of dangerous plants, advice on how anyone can keep plants healthy and how plants help to keep us healthy.

Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy Programs

Petals & Pages

Peace Beyond All Fear: A Tribute to John Denver's Vision

This is an idea source for horticultural therapy programs, schools, senior care facilities and individuals of all ages and abilities. These projects and plant related activities range from easy to difficult, and each has a touch of whimsy. The authors explain that whimsy is the counterpoint to the serious work of being human. These projects were designed by professional horticultural therapists to be fun while serving as great physical, mental and social exercises for everyone. Contains four kinds of activities Plant projects with creative activities and care notes accompanying each one. Craft activities range from creating a "Peace Card" to "Turning Your Problems into Compost." Quizzes on everything from garlic to coconuts. These are great conversation starters. Short stories that can be read aloud to a group or individually while waiting for the plants to grow. These are great springboards for discussion. There is also a comprehensive list of both safe and dangerous plants. Teachers, home schoolers, activity professionals, counselors, horticultural therapists, family caregivers and individuals of all ages will find these pages of value. The focus is on empowerment and creativity.

Windowsill Whimsy, Gardening & Horticultural Therapy Projects for Small Spaces

Folk, Tomi Jill

Written for activity professionals, horticultural therapists, family members and friends, this book is designed to be shared with senior citizens who choose to garden without getting their hands dirty. Enjoy it at home, adult day care centers, senior meal sites, retirement communities, hospitals or rehab programs. Over 50 activities, quizzes, stories, opinion polls and trivia to encourage conversation, trigger memories, and perhaps spark some new ideas along the way. Many of the quizzes aren't about finding right or wrong answers, but sharing wisdom, and exercising our sense of humor. Follow the garden path that allows each person to teach and learn something new, laugh a little and smile a lot as we enjoy the life a garden grows.

Along the Garden Path; Garden Related Activities, Quizzes, Stories & Trivia

Petals & Pages Press introduces the second in their new series: "Seniors Illustrated," written for the rapidly expanding elder population, both at home and in senior care communities. Volume 2 features two great short stories: "Cactus Flowers and Friends" and "The Great Potato Drop," and more delightful poetry. Seniors are the main characters in these stories but people of many ages will enjoy sharing the books with loved ones. Perfect for reading clubs, each large print page of the story is matched with a reinforcing picture, according to recommendations made by senior citizens and activity professionals. "Cactus Flowers & Friends" is a story about how a rare plant blooming brings a neighborhood together. The Great Potato Drop" bring Flo and Claire, the pranksters from Whispering Winds Senior Center back, complete with a truck load of potatoes, a lot of soup kitchens and food pantries and a community willing to be the solution to hunger. Based on a true story. Four volumes of Seniors Illustrated will be released each year. Fiction, nonfiction, multicultural legends, poetry and/or activities, even a few trivia quizzes, will be included, always having the senior population at heart.

Seniors Illustrated Volume 2

Parenting & Relationships

Aging Parents

Seniors Illustrated Volume 1

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

This collection of short stories celebrates the diversity of New Mexico’s people, cultures and landscapes. Christmas isn’t just a marketplace holiday, nor is it a narrow observance of tradition, or the remembrance of an event dimmed by the distance of a couple thousand years. This is the one time of the year when we can set free the light that shines within each and every one of us. For a few days, or weeks, we allow ourselves the opportunity to glow with peace and good will. The light within vanquishes the fear and anger for just a moment in time, but within that moment is the hope of all humanity. For each of these stories, this fifth season of the year is a special time, with spirituality that transcends the church pew. This is the season we experience with the senses. After all, New Mexico is a place where “red and green” don’t refer to decorations, but rather the dinner table choice of red or green chile. During this most intense time of the year, we experience with more than the physical senses. We have the opportunity to experience our sense of belonging, sense of place, sense of hope, sense of peace, and most definitely, our sense of humor. Our journey through life is a matter of discovery, sharing, caring for one another, and being the gift, more than receiving the gift. Christmas may be the moment in time when we shine, but each of us is a gift every day of our lives, and so is everyone we chance to meet on this journey for which there is no road map. But we do have each other, friend or stranger, to light the way. Hope you are enchanted by the light, and that you are the light for others during this season and every tomorrow. Hopefully, you will enjoy these stories and make friends with each of these characters. Some flawed, others scarred, but all are delightfully human.

Enchanted by the Light, 15 Short Stories Celebrating Christmas in New Mexico

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The garden can be a place of healing, where everyone can be accepted; where stress can be released, and renewal and peace can be discovered. In this book the reader is introduced to the value of therapeutic gardening, and the empowerment of the people-plant connection. This is a “why to garden” rather than a “how to garden” guide for the 21st century. Many of us enjoy gardening for our own therapy, placing us in the moment, noticing the beauty of the world around us. Come along on a journey through the garden as a sensory experience, and explore ways that these personal discoveries can be used to improve the quality of life. Fans around the world who enjoyed the first edition have reported that the chapter on edible flowers is a sheer delight. ***An Added Feature in this Revised Edition AND OF GREAT VALUE is the List of Safe and Dangerous Plants.*** Gardens for the Senses, Gardening as Therapy also introduces the reader to the role of professional horticultural therapists. The reader is invited to explore the ways gardening programs can be used as a therapeutic tool for patients in hospitals or rehabilitation centers, and the residents of senior care facilities; for abuse or trauma/PTSD victims, Alzheimer’s and stroke patients, inmates in prison systems, drug addicts and a multitude of special populations. The expanding role of school and neighborhood gardens in growing a sense of community is explored. Enjoy the journey, and remember, “It’s about the people, not the plants.”

Gardens for the Senses Gardening as Therapy, revised and expanded

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

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