Over the past year I have been part of a team that has created and launched the Therapeutic Horticulture Activity Database (THAD), a great resource for horticultural therapists, allied professionals, and anyone interested in exploring activities that use horticulture in therapeutic ways. The THAD was spearheaded by Lesley Fleming,…
There is an enormous body of anecdotal commentary that engaging in activities with plants and gardening provides a number of psychological health and well-being benefits, such as less stress, anxiety, depressive symptomatology, and greater positive affect. If true, then where, and how do many of the ballyhooed well-being benefits actually…
From my office directly across Mowry Road from the Wilmot Botanical Gardens I am able to admire the beauty of the azaleas that are in full bloom as I write my director’s message. If you are not pleased with your azaleas this spring, it could be a problem with the…
Wilmot Botanical Gardens is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Spring Plant Sale pre-order! We are offering a nice variety of azaleas, native plants, grasses, shrubs, trees and camellias for pre-order. We look forward to receiving your order soon! Click the Learn More for access to the…
Now that our very successful Fall Plant Sale is behind us, we have been working on projects we hoped to conclude before the end of the year. We were extremely fortunate to receive a very generous gift from longtime supporters of the gardens that allowed us to move forward with…
A systematic review does the following: 1, exhaustively searches and collects all published studies related to a given topic based on a defined set of keyword and experimental design criteria, 2, reviews the quality of included studies, and 3, summarizes the collective results. A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis of…
This fall we launched a research study on the effects of therapeutic horticulture for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) care partners. Thanks to Siang’s leadership in putting together the grant proposal, we received funding for a year-long project from the Parkinson’s Foundation. We are wrapping up our first semester of the study…
I am Chih Ching Wu from Taiwan. My venture into the field of therapeutic horticulture represents my personal journey of self-discovery. After spending over a decade working in various countries, I reached a point where I felt adrift and decided to embark on a quest to reconnect with my roots.
Hello there, dear readers! I’m Maxel, hailing all the way from sunny Singapore. Currently, I find myself here at the University of Florida, working alongside the wonderful team at Wilmot Botanical Gardens. Allow me to rewind a bit and share how I ended up on this exciting path. You see,…
In a courtroom trial, multiple lines of evidence increase the likelihood that the outcome and verdict will be correct. Likewise, in scientific research, various lines of evidence generated using different approaches, methods, and conducted by independent laboratories and investigators increase the probability that the findings and outcomes will be correct.
