The Benefits of Gardening Horticulture is the ancient practice of gardening. There are three types of beneficial gardening practices such as therapeutic horticulture, horticultural therapy, and social or community horticulture. These three ways bring about many benefits such as improved cognitive abilities, motivation, reduced anxiety and stress, and many more benefits. Through this capstone project, my coworker, Mayra, and I wish to create an environment that is soothing and we want to engage in social interaction with the patients and anyone who wants to garden. Another goal Mayra and I have are for the patients to develop life skills such as patience, time management, resiliency, coping with stress and anxiety, etc. During our first visit at TIRR Memorial Hermann, we discovered a small garden slightly hidden on the other side of the building. We saw one or two patients trying to enter the green house. The willingness to explore the garden inspired Mayra and I to help the patients in a way that would give them piece of mind. Horticultural, also known as gardening, throughout the years, since ancient times. Gardening allows for the gardener to directly connect back with Mother Nature. Nature is governed by its own rules of time. The gardener has no control over when and how long something can grow. In this sense, nature teaches the gardener the art of patience. Patience can go a long way in life, whether it is patience with loved ones or people we work with. With Loading...patience, gardeners will have the will to keep gardening. With gardening comes discipline. Discipline and patience are hand in hand. Gardeners need to have the patience to watch a seedling grow into a flower and at the same time; they must have the discipline t...
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...d, Creativity is about having fun in an intellectual way. This creativity will allow for the patients to solve their own inner or outer problems through creative problem solving. A neat way that has been coined by an online blog by Fran Sorin demonstrates how the creative process can happen. The ways are imagining, envisioning, planning, planting, tending, enjoying, and completing. This creative process is not as free an unstructured as one may think. In order for creativity to happen and produce results there has to be structure. Through the creative process, we develop an identity. Gardening allows individuals to be themselves. A way a garden is structured can tell a lot about a person. Another benefit of gardening would be a healthier lifestyle. This especially applies to people who grow their own vegetables and fruits. Who wouldn’t want to eat the fruit of their
Looking out the window, I spotted my grandmother planting beautiful orchids and dahlias. They swayed in the soft spring breeze as she danced around them, sprinkling droplets of water on their petals. From that moment on, my dream had been to create a garden of my own. The next Saturday, instead of going to the market, I bought seeds, a shovel, watering can, and soil. When I reached home, I started right away on my garden. It was behind the house in a sunny place. About an hour passed and my flowers were all planted. I called my new garden “Ted Myles’ Garden of Smiles”. That was a pretty clever name, huh? After waiting for a few months, I learned my lesson. Never plant in a super sunny spot. I found this out in a very sad way. My flowers never grew. The seeds just sat there under the ground. I watered them, fertilized the soil, watered them again, and yet they still sat there in the soil, still as a statue. But I kept trying, planting seed after seed, determined to receive just a glimpse of green appear over the soil. Finally, a month later, my tulips grew. I took great care of them, making sure they didn’t die, but everything must die
Gardening is Finley's graffiti and art. He believes that the gardens are meant to be shared with all and used as a tool to educate and transform his community. The gardens help change and develop the lives and future of children and young people. He believes to make change, you have to focus on the community and change the composition of the soil. The people are the soil. Finley’s plans for the garden include getting people to grow their own food, open farmer's markets, and make healthy cafes out of shipping
On the other hand, the garden itself within The Secret Garden can be classified as a cultivated natural therapeutic landscape. What makes the garden truly remarkable as a therapeutic is its role in Mary’s coming of age, considering that prior to Mary’s exposure to the garden she was raised without an appropriate adult role models but nonetheless reached emotional maturity. In addition, the garden is considered a true therapeutic landscape due to its role in healing not only Mary, but also Colin and Archibald
Beauty can be defined in many ways. Though, regardless of its definition, beauty is confined by four characteristics: symmetry, health, vibrancy and complexity. Michael Pollan, in the book The Botany of Desire, examines our role in nature. Pollan sets out to discovery why the most beautiful flowers have manipulated animals into propagating its genes. Most people believe that humans are the sole domesticators of nature, although, beauty in some sense has domesticated us by making us select what we perceive as beautiful. In flowers, for example, the most attractive ones insure their survival and reproductive success; therefore the tulip has domesticated us in the same way by insuring its reproduction. Whether it is beauty or instinct humans have toward flowers they have nevertheless domesticated us.
...cultivating the garden lets the group of characters keep away from the unfair world in which pessimism is present, while cause and effect are easily measurable in the garden.
the modern garden. She interprets how we have the need to control and create what we consider perfect with our sciences and labs. While rules reign, sanitation demands, and socialization take control of the perfect scene for a pleasant environment, the unpleasant side of these malls such as their trash is kept out of the vision of the consumer. Most of these consumer products that are used to entice the population to enter into this heavenly place on earth became waste that is not entirely recycled
I later understood that gardening is generally associated with a life of leisure, with relaxation. For me, it was a competition. I'd ask my seedlings, 'Who's growing the fastest?' 'Who's the tallest?' Fearing bad karma, I tried to stay impartial, lest a subconscious preference for green beans would cause me to water them more often, while dumping bleach on the onions. Every night I'd give my parents an update on rates of growth, any signs of produce, and my never-realized irrigation plans.
Professional garden designers have a wide range of skills: design, creative and technical. They provide professional, practical solutions converting the clients ‘wish list’ into reality (if practical. If not practical, making appropriate suggestions). On top of this, a pleasant personality, the ability to explain ideas and to interpret the client’s ideas is important. Moreover they explain/create the best outcome of the client’s needs . Management of people and time are also important.
The role of gardens play a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside influences, mainly Chinese, that effect not only changing aesthetic tastes but also the values of patrons. In observing a Japanese garden, it is important to remember that the line between the garden and the landscape that surrounds it is not separate. Instead, the two are forever merged, serving as the total embodiment of the one another. Every aspect of the landscape is in itself a garden. Also when observing the garden, the visitor is not supposed to distinguish the garden from its architecture. Gardens in Japan incorporate both natural and artificial elements, therefor uniting nature and architecture into one entity. Japanese gardens also express the ultimate connection between humankind and nature, for these gardens are not only decorative, but are a clear expression of Japanese culture.
“As You Plant –So you shall reap”. Plant the seed into your mind, care for it, and work
In conclusion, I found that both garden styles originated from two completely different and unique backgrounds of history. Which each garden style is representation of how their culture at the time viewed nature’s energy and force. Also how both gardens water, rocks, and trees where all used in different ways that showed distinctive landscape. In this paper I showed how both, Saihō-ji and Masters of the nets garden is similar as well different. Furthermore, gained numerous amount of information about the gardens styles as well the history surrounding them.
Gardeners often find deep satisfaction in their gardens because they are rewarded by their patience and
What exactly is creativity? To be creative is to understand and connect the small details of our experiences, both good and bad (creative something). Creativity involves a person using his or her original ideas to create something. Artists such as poets, writers, painters, designers, and more use creativity on a regular basis. They use creativity to come up with new ideas and create original works of art. A poet would use his or her creative abilities to write and produce a poem just like a painter would use creativity to paint a painting.
Creativity is a way of living. Creativity makes life seem more interesting and brilliant. Since we are kids we find new ways to deal with everyday life. We find different innovative forms to deal with everyday obstacles. Creativity lets us see the things that we thought did not make sense or were not there. Creativity happens in everyday life and it can be expressed and seen in different forms such as inventions like the smartphone, cars, and modern buildings or more artistic inventions like paintings, music, and TV shows. We see creativity everywhere and from anyone adults, teenagers and even
The aim of this essay is to discuss creativity and arts and its impact in the social care setting. In subsequent paragraphs in the essay, we would be defining creativity, identify the varying concepts, giving an outline of the differences of these concepts, and explore the outlook of creativity in persons, the role of different arts and expression of creativity on a service users/participants, and finally relating these subject areas to its impact on the social care worker. This paper would be reflecting on how creative arts aids in forming outstanding personalities, and ensuring a better standard of living for both social care givers and their service users.