It provides horticultural therapy for patients, but is also open to the public.

We're serving thousands of people, who may not have had anything to do if it weren't for horticultural therapy."

Horticultural therapy uses plants, gardens, nature crafts, and gardening activities.

They are also used in horticultural therapy for rehabilitation of mental and/or physical ailment.

Applied horticultural therapy is a part of everyday activity at the botanic garden.

The farm was also an accredited training center for gardeners and one of the first sites to practice horticultural therapy.

The staff at the hospital also emphasizes occupational, creative and horticultural therapy, much as its forebears did.

Horticultural therapy and botanical illustration are among the day and evening courses offered.

But the 80 developmentally disabled children, teenagers and young adults also participate in something less familiar: horticultural therapy.

As a part of the school's 25-year-old horticultural therapy program, Ms. Martin works with about 170 residential and day students ages 5 through 15.

Horticultural therapy teaches vocational skills, leading to employment in the horticultural industry.

By 1907, when the island became a military prison, gardens were being planted by inmates in an experiment that might now be called horticultural therapy.

Ms. Messer, a member of the association's board of directors, is familiar with the benefits that horticultural therapy can have.

Five general areas have been identified: horticultural therapy, ecology, biology, cultural influences and horticultural opportunities.

AHTA believes that horticultural therapy is an active process which occurs in the context of an established treatment plan.

GGuT A tiny association for Horticultural Therapy, founded in 2001.

It also includes related services in plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design/construction/maintenance, horticultural therapy, and much more.

The foundation provides greenhouses or matching grants to purchase greenhouses to horticultural therapy programs that serve people with physical, mental and emotional disabilities.

While gardening is assumed to be so therapeutic that there is even a field called horticultural therapy, it wasn't designed to help those with horticultural problems.

Shane Smith lectures and consults on greenhouses, gardening, horticultural therapy, and other gardening topics.

- The Enabling Garden was specifically designed to support Leu Garden's extensive horticultural therapy program.

Horticultural Therapy provides emotional and psychological benefits to patients with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes, and amputations.

This makes a Guild for Exceptional Children, a member of the American Horticultural Therapy Association.

Horticultural Therapy Indoors: Tips and Techniques - March 18 Give the people you serve the year-round benefits of working with plants.

Alfred Carrière roses at the entrance, serves as horticultural therapy for the volunteers, who prune, snip and add wiggly red worms to vegetable compost.