Posted in Healing & Enabling Gardens on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Fall view of the 8,000 square foot roof top garden at the Hotel @ MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The space is generally very accessible with the exception of the path that cuts through the grass to a private meeting spot. It’s a pleasure to be able to look down on the garden from the […]
Posted in Healing & Enabling Gardens on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
At the end of the day, after getting lots of great project ideas from attending a Horticultural Therapy course offered by Mitchell Hewson at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, I was fortunate to find myself at the on-site labyrinth with the late afternoon light just right and a backdrop of golden fall colours. […]
Posted in Healing & Enabling Gardens on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Located at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, this is an outdoor grass labyrinth following the Chartres Cathedral design. There is something very special about the simple landscaping of this labyrinth that regenerates a common grass field into a sacred space. At this time of year, I found myself very aware of […]
Posted in Natural Gardening & Eco-Restoration, Community Gardening, Healing & Enabling Gardens on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Above we have a unique boat design for a raised bed which includes a ledge for sitting. To the right we have a square raised bed. These beds, planted with native plants, are part of Ecology Park Community Garden in the Annex neighborhood (Madison and Spadina), Toronto. The revitalized space is a […]
Posted in Horticultural Therapy, Healing & Enabling Gardens on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Garden Tour: Aging and Veterans Care facility at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Guide: Philip Spring (H.T.T.), responsible for the horticultural therapy program
(Left) This is a secure garden space in a courtyard area especially designed for patients with dementia who also have challenging behaviors. It is fully wheelchair accessible and includes a beautiful […]
Posted in Healing & Enabling Gardens on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I recently heard about a labyrinth in High Park but had difficulty locating the path that led to it. Yesterday I asked a gardener in the park who sent me in the right direction, behind the Grenadier Restaurant. Having only ever seen pictures in fancy landscape design books of labyrinths, I must say, […]
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