Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy Programs

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.