Healing Gardens

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Healing Gardens
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My garden
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Healing Gardens

• Principles and Design

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What is a healing garden?

• a garden in a healing setting designed to make
  people feel better (Eckerling, 1996).

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The goals of a Healing Garden

• safe
• less stressed
• more comfortable
• invigorated

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Designing the healing garden.
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Designing the healing garden

• functionality
• maintainable
• environmentally sound
• cost effective
• visually pleasing

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Functionality

• The garden must accommodate the limitations of
  the users of the space

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Maintainable

• A poorly maintained garden could cause
  individuals to loose confidence in the institution

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Environmentally sound

• if garden visitors are unwell the garden may
  prove detrimental if it is not environmentally
  sound

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Cost effective

• funding is often raised through donations, the
  design must address this

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Visually pleasing

• should provide pleasant surroundings as an aid in
  restorative effects

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Healing gardens

• Principles of design

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The proper way to do things
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Principles of Design

• Simplicity
• Variety
• Balance
• Emphasis
• Sequence
• Scale

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Simplicity
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Simplicity

• Designing a landscape that is uncluttered

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Variety
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Variety

• Mixing form, texture and color combinations
  without sacrificing simplicity

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Balance
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Balance

• A relationship between elements of the landscape
• balance can be both informal and formal

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Emphasis
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Emphasis

• A relationship between plants and plant groupings
• specimen, accent, key, plant groups and massed
  plants

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Sequence
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Sequence

• A gradual transition from one area to another

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Scale
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Scale

• The relationship of one area of the landscape to
  another
• proportion or ratio

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Accessibility
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