Horticultural therapy in the landscape architecture: Therapeutic garden

Horticultural therapy uses living plants, their products, and the natural environment to provide evaluation therapy, and rehabilitation within a medical model. It is recommended for people who have emotional, physical, educational, and/or behavioral problems. In recent years, a significant rise of interest in therapeutic gardens in the USA, Canada, Europe and the Pacific region, such as Japan, New Zealand or Australia has been observed. Such gardens are specially designed to contain many solutions important for health care, rehabilitation and other types of therapeutic institutions. This article describes the most important aspects of therapeutic garden.