Benefits of Horticulture Therapy

Physical Benefits:

Whether someone is recovering from a stroke, surgery, or injury. This could mean strengthening muscles, relearning to walk, regaining dexterity in hands, or building endurance, coordination, and balance. Horticultural therapy also helps a patient carry out daily living activities and navigate space. While a clinical setting is designed to prevent falls, being in a garden helps someone safely re-acclimate to uneven surfaces.

Cognitive benefits:

Depression, anxiety and social isolation Horticultural therapy gets patients moving, motivated, and connected to the outside world and plans for the future. Horticulture Therapy increase memory, stimulate the mind, and provide a much-needed mental break, a sense of pride and validation.

Is Horticulture therapy helpful for certain people?

Horticulture therapy is used to enhance an individual’s well-being through active or passive involvement in plant and plant-related activities. Even something as simple as having a plant on your desk can reduce stress and make you feel more energized and able to think more clearly.

Not only are there benefits for rehabilitation and behavioral health as well as for older adults living with dementia, interacting with plants can really help everyone improve their emotional, mental, social, cognitive, educational and physical well-being.

It fosters a sense of grounding which helps us reconnect with our roots as human beings.