Garden Route Therapy

Plant them (beans) with everyone because they will grow overnight and the excitment generated will be contagious.

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The Greenhouse/Nursery team had the assignment of decorating the Providence Farm Chapel yesterday for a wedding ceremony to be held this evening.  We used over 20 large planters to create a magnificent indoor floral display with a country flare.  Two lemon verbena pots were also brought in for decoration and to create a special sensory [...]

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Fresh cut flowers prepared into bouquets by participants to be sold at the Saturday Market in the Square, the downtown Duncan Farmers’ Market.  Everyone enjoys working with the flowers and is part of the full process from seeding, to planting the cut flower field, to irrigating, weeding, picking, arranging and then finishing with a beautiful [...]

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A fun planter design.  Decorating planters can make for a creative horticultural therapy activity.

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It was June last year that I started my own blog, to track my journey towards becoming a registered horticultural therapist.  A great experience during this time was to show someone else how to take advantage of this technology.  I had the chance to work with a young man who showed great enthusiasm for computers [...]

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The Bridge ~ Step 95 ~ Learning To Love Better
All things are moving toward that which you are moving toward
 
Whenever the hustle-bustle of life starts to weigh heavily upon you, and your mind seems to run around in never [...]

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At the moment I am enjoying reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I was taken by Gilbert’s thought that “You cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water (171).” Working at Providence Farm requires a change of pace for me. You have just to be present with the [...]

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It was lovely to be amongst friends, at the Julien Project before the holidays, making pine cone bear decorations together.

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I was asked at a workshop what I liked most about November and I automatically responded by saying I did NOT like November. I am not really sure what I meant by this reaction because in truth, I did not know November very well. That was before I took Tanzie our dog for an [...]

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Fun centre piece ideas showcased at the Allies in Aging 2007 Conference hosted by the Alzheimer Societies of Guelph-Wellington, Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo. The toiletries bouquet above uses a rectangular soap as the stand, a face cloth secured with a strip of decorated cardboard to form the vase and is completed by a daisy tucked [...]

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