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Horticultural Therapy (HT) is the practice of engaging people in horticultural activities to improve physical, emotional, social, vocational, and / or spiritual health. Therapeutic benefits occur when people are exposed to plants and when they take part in planning, planting, growing, and caring for plants.

Horticultural Therapy is not just performing a plant based activity. For the exercise to be considered as a valid therapeutic tool, it must contain:

A defined treatment program that is based on horticultural or gardening activities
A client with a diagnosed problem and in treatment.
A treatment goal and outcome that can be measured and evaluated
A professional to deliver the HT treatment and make the evaluation. Therapeutic Horticulture Programs Offered Dr. Aimee Taylor:

Therapeutic Horticulture Program Design and Implementation

Rehabilitation Centres
Adult Day Care
Long Term Care Facilities
Residential Facilities
Community Gardens
One to one companion program design within all the above facilities

Enabling and Restorative Garden Design

Residential
Facilities & Organisations

Research and Education

If you would like to have a therapeutic horticulture or horticultural therapy program designed for your organisation or facility please contact Aimée about her availability and rates.

Aimée was born in Yorkshire, England. In her year out between University and School she worked as a volunteer in Zimbabwe on environmental and health care projects. Following this experience she attended The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where she studied Soil Science and gained a 1st class honors degree and best thesis award. Aimée then studied for her PhD, a collaborative project between KWS SAAT AG and the University of Aberdeen to investigate soil physical properties on seed germination. In 2002 Aimée moved from Scotland to Vancouver, Canada where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University



Vancouver BC
Dr. Aimee Taylor