Gardens for the Senses: Gardening As Therapy

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Summary: Highly recommended for its creativity
Review: Authoritatively written by horticultural therapist Hank Bruce (who is also president of the Florida Chapter of the American Horticultural Therapy Association), Gardening For The Senses, Gardening As Therapy is not an ordinary gardening book - it deals with the mental, emotional, and spiritual needs that gardening fulfils, through its quiet beauty and appeal to the physical senses. From the ten most fragrant flowering plants to gardening as a means of connecting with Life, the first section of this book deals with how gardening specifically for one's senses can bring new joy and fulfillment to this age-old endeavor. The other two sections of this book deal with how gardening can be used as therapy to benefit children, the developmentally disabled, recovering addicts, survivors of abuse, Alzheimer's patients and more. Gardening For The Senses, Gardening As Therapy is highly recommended for its creativity, and truly delivers on its intent to show the hidden values of gardening to the people in need of stress relief and emotional restoration.