Welcome to Sue Jeffries Therapeutic Garden Service
I’m a social and therapeutic horticulture practitioner with 15 years’ experience of developing and delivering projects to a wide range of people and organisations. My book Designing, Planting and Using a Therapeutic Garden is a practical guide to evaluating garden sites and assessing user groups’ needs. It also includes detailed advice on designing and planting therapeutic gardens to meet specific requirements. In addition, there is a wealth of ideas for therapeutic gardening activities and interactions with plants throughout all seasons of the year.
As a trained and qualified horticulturist and teacher based in Lancashire I offer consultancy, training and support to community and therapeutic gardening projects and programmes. I work with a range of adult groups, children and those with specific needs. My aim is to help improve wellbeing and health outcomes through using gardens, nature and growing spaces.
If you would like to discuss my consultancy or training services, please contact me.
Publications
Designing, Planting and Using a Therapeutic Garden. The benefits of therapeutic gardens, where users can interact with plants for the purpose of moving towards a specific outcome or meeting a particular need, is increasingly being recognized in healthcare and beyond.
This book provides a practical guide for garden designers, horticulture professionals, landscape architects and therapeutic horticulturalists to create a successful and sustainable therapeutic garden space, whether from scratch or working with an existing site. An appreciation of how the garden will be used is an essential part of its design, so this book also outlines therapeutic activities and ideas, making it a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, counsellors, teachers, activity co-ordinators, social prescribers and occupational therapists who are looking to use horticulture within their therapeutic practice.
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