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].