Article Review 4

Professor Clare Cooper Marcus give a well informed and very well detailed description of how Patient-specific Healing Garden's Landscape should be designed. She has also mentioned dates and matched them with today's knowledge about gardens and how things have changed from then to now.

Marcus also mentioned the difference certain Healing Gardens have from another for example those that have mental illness will find different surroundings then those how are suffering from stress. All gardens do have a large amount of greenery but little changes are made with the layout due to what illness the garden is supposed to heal.

Clare Cooper Marcus, 2015. Landscape design: Patient-specific Healing Gardens. [Online] (2015) Available at: < http://www.worldhealthdesign.com/patient-specific-healing-gardens.aspx> [1 June 2015].

Article Review 3

What are healing gardens for?

This article gives a very well explanation of what healing gardens to and how the help our wellbeing. 

Some mentioned are:

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Pain

And several other mentioned which will then be mentioned in my final essay. More detail was mentioned when Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD mentions how important nature is for us as human beings and how we cannot and will not live without it. Certain plants were mentioned and what they do to make our wellbeing better.

Kreitzer also mentioned materials which are not so good to have in a healing garden and what negative feelings we get from them for example if there is a big amount of concrete and less % of greenery we will not feel as ease or calm but confused and uncomfortable. Garden benefits are also mentioned and even important healing features such as abstract sculptures cannot be placed in a healing garden because as Kreitzer stated "patients thought that a large gazing ball in one garden was the "evil eye." A somewhat abstracted sculptures of birds was seen as "vultures that scrape flesh."

Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD, 2013. What are Healing Gardens for. [Online] (2013) Available at: < http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/healing-environment/what-are-healing-gardens> [1 June 2015].

Article Review 2

This Article Explains what a healing gardens would need to help heal and keep the mind at ease by having certain things as mentioned and found before in other books and links read.

• Greenery
• No abstract sculptures due to confusion 
• Big trees for shade and privacy
• Gardens that can be touched and smelled for example plants and flowers
• Wide path ways
• Water, river or pond nothing loud or full of pressure
• Easy access 

Scientific American, 2012. How hospital gardens help patients heal. [online] Available at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nature-that-nurtures/?page=3 [accessed 1 June 2015].