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Affiliations
1 School of Environment Engineering, Xuzhou Institute of Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu-221111, CN
2 School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan-611756, CN
3 School of Architecture, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian-361021, CN
Source
International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol 9, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 1607-1613
Abstract
Aromatic plants, which are a category of plants that bear the attributes as medicinal plants and natural perfume, manifest many functions, such as adjusting moods and beautifying the environment. Healing garden is a type of landscape which takes the function of healing and health care as the theme in design, and it is a venue utilized to treat specific physical or mental illness. In accordance with the characteristics of aromatic plants and healing garden, the type of sensory environment created by aromatic plants in the healing garden is analyzed, and the form, in which aromatic plants operate in the healing garden is discussed. This is advantageous to people’s voluntary involvement in the treatment of physical and mental illness in the form of landscape planning which bears the function of healing and health care. Furthermore, it can guide people to fit into the creation of healing garden with aromatic plants, and recuperate and maintain their health condition.
Keywords
Aromatic Plants, Healing Garden, Horticulture Therapy, Landscape Planning and Design.
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