关键词: 风景园林；美国植物园；园艺疗法；应用与设置研究

Abstract: Horticultural therapy programs in botanical gardens have gradually become an effective medium for stress recovery and emotion regulation. At present, domestic botanical gardens pay less attention to the horticultural therapy program, and mostly focus on the sensory experience of plant-specific gardens, and have not yet formed a multi-dimensional macro-system that supports the development of horticultural therapy programs in terms of the environment of the botanical landscape, horticultural activities, and post-management and operation and maintenance techniques. This paper selects 28 botanical gardens with horticultural therapy programs as research objects in America, and firstly expounds the long history of American botanical gardens and the development of their horticultural therapy programs; secondly, compiles the application of horticultural therapy programs in American botanical gardens, which specifically includes the types of healing gardens such as sensory gardens, meditation gardens, and labyrinth gardens, and horticultural activities carried out by the combination of horticultural labor activities, health experience programs, horticultural popularization and creation courses, as well as horticultural activities carried out by the courses. Finally, the operation strategies of horticultural therapy programs in botanical gardens, such as creating a good healing environment, setting up horticultural therapy programs full of humanistic care, and seeking professional cooperation from colleges and universities, are summarized, with a view to providing reference for the development of this field in domestic botanical gardens.

Key words: landscape architecture; American botanical gardens; horticultural therapy; applied research