Healing is a "five-sense garden" to perceive the beauty of gardening.

Gardens have a long history. Traditionally, gardens are places where ornamental plants such as flowers, vegetables, herbs and fruits are planted and provided with entertainment. Today, I will discuss with you the meaning, function and related design methods of the five senses garden.

The influence of horticultural plants and environment on people's emotions is mainly based on five senses, namely, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

The so-called five senses garden is to apply the five senses design to the plant landscape design, and form an all-round sensory experience by enriching the vitality of the environmental landscape, so that people's feelings can be fully satisfied.

Wuganyuan aims at health preservation, and cannot directly treat diseases, but it can play a role in the following aspects:

1, the five senses garden is people-oriented, the ecology returns to nature, and it is in harmony with the environment. To meet the different needs of different people and places, activity experience can meet the psychological and behavioral needs in the process of rehabilitation, reduce the pressure of release, alleviate negative emotions and achieve a good balance of the body.

2. The Five Senses Garden pursues the unity of any nature, applying the landscape of natural ecological elements such as sunshine, plants and waterscape, applying the five senses gardening therapy, using local materials, and using native plant resources to create a comfortable and healthy environment, so that users can enhance their self-healing ability and get faster recovery; Not bad.

3. Produce negative air ions, release plant essence, give off fragrant smell, carry out and assist treatment, stimulate emotional and psychological relief, relieve physical and mental stress, anxiety and depression, and obtain curative effects that cannot be achieved by conventional medical treatment;

4. The design elements that make up the five senses experience create garden landscapes with different colors, textures and heights. In addition to the ecological function of plants, it can produce physiological and psychological health gains by digging deeply into the convalescence and rehabilitation function of plants and actively adjusting physical comfort, interpersonal relationship and mental stress.

5. Provide places for staff, high-pressure people, etc. Reduce work pressure; Release the stress in life,

6. Provide a quiet and peaceful interactive environment for vulnerable groups, patients and tourists within the city.

Because the use of the five senses garden pays more attention to "disease prevention" and health preservation, rehabilitation and recuperation, it can solve the physiological or psychological problems of sub-health people and stimulate and improve the users' senses through certain colors, rhythmic sounds and directional smells. Through the interaction with strong operability, people can get rid of their own bad state, distract their attention from physical and mental discomfort, be more humanized, cover a wide range of users, and are being popularized and applied all over the world.

Key points in the design of Wuguan Garden:

1, water, sunlight, plants and other natural ecological elements create courtyard space to provide five senses and activities;

2. Face the crowd, stimulate the participants' five senses experience, and take care of the gardening space of plants;

3. Build a barrier-free walking space to avoid a friendly environment harmful to people with mobility difficulties and children;

4. Create a barrier-free, diversified and convenient leisure sports space to meet the diverse needs of users;

5. The shape, smell, texture, seasonal changes and colors of plants should be diversified;

6, open, semi-open, private and other different levels and types of rest space to meet individual needs.

Design method of five senses garden;

1, visual sensory design

Plants should choose plants with bright colors and pleasant seasons, plant flowers, fruits and leaves, and organically combine beautiful, spatial and colorful plants by using plant ecology.

Exquisite and compact landscape nodes should be set up in the garden to draw nutrition from the natural landscape and create a leisure and entertainment place that makes people linger.

2. Auditory sensory design

The auditory design takes "acoustic landscape" as the concept, pays attention to the acoustic characteristics of the site and the natural environment with the help of natural sounds, and feels the air humidity and seasonal changes through different water features to create a rich auditory experience space.

Make full use of dynamic sound sources other than wind, rain, water, insects, birds and other plants to create a "concert hall" to listen to nature, create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, and sublimate people's hearts.

3. Smell design

Ensure that the fragrance of flowers, fruits, leaves and secretions of aromatic plants has sufficient olfactory stimulation intensity, which can bring people olfactory enjoyment, regulate people's nervous system, promote blood circulation, and enhance immunity and physical vitality.

Plant selection should emphasize its therapeutic effect, pay attention to avoid scattered plants and plants with excessive fragrance, and avoid possible adverse effects so as not to cause people's boredom.

4, tactile sensory design

Plants should be placed in places where people can easily touch them, or water bodies and planting beds with different heights should be used to create an atmosphere and space where people can get in touch with each other at zero distance. At the same time, supporting facilities should pay attention to texture, comfort and diversity.

It is advisable to use branches, leaves, fruits, seeds and plants with different textures with special handfeel, and experience the tactile effect of stimulation by yourself to increase the discrimination ability and feel the fun brought by details.

5. Taste sensory design

Emphasis is placed on the use of edible and medicinal plants and the cultivation of edible plants. Different parts of taste plants, such as flowers, fruits and leaves, can not only enrich people's taste experience, but also play a health care role.

Promote health through the processing and consumption of commodities, encourage the sharing of labor results, promote social communication, enhance people's willingness to participate, and increase freshness and entertainment.

Design of gardening activities in Wugan Garden;

1, emphasizing handcrafting activities: making plant ornaments, plant dyes, handcrafting garden trails, etc. ;

2. Group activities that can be carried out in groups: educational games, storytelling, movies or music appreciation related to plants;

3. Hiking: Go for a walk and run in botanical gardens and parks;

4. Hands-on cultivation activities: floral design, flower planting, fruits and vegetables, garden environment maintenance, etc.

5. Outdoor teaching: Learn about insects, animals and plants, soil and other knowledge outdoors.

6. Exercise and fitness: There are some fitness facilities in the space to improve and regulate the physical and psychological functions of users.

7. Meditation: create a feeling environment and form a meditation space with the landscape, and guide it imperceptibly.

Entering the five senses garden can combine the landscape with human senses to the maximum extent, and then achieve the harmony and unity of landscape and people. With a good attitude and a vision for the future, we can feel the beauty of life again and contribute our health and happiness to building a well-off society in an all-round way.