Therapeutic Horticulture

1. Sources of information

Useful reading

Able to Garden, 1990, Peter Please, Horticultural Therapy, Somerset.

Accessible Gardening, 1997, Peter Thoday, Horticulture for All, Gillingham, Dorset.

Children's Gardening, 1991, Peter Please, Horticultural Therapy, Somerset.

Gardening and the Handicapped Child, 1978, P. Elliott, Disabled Living Foundation, London (out of print - obtainable through libraries).

Gardening is for Everyone, 1990, A. Cloet & C. Underhill, Human Horizon Series, Souvenir Press.

Gardening Without Sight, 1989, Kathleen Fleet, RNIB, London

Grounds for Sharing: A guide to developing special school sites. 1996, Jane Stoneham, Learning through Landscapes, Winchester.

Growing with Gardening - a 12 month guide for therapy, recreation and education, 1989, B. Moore, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London.

The Healing Garden, 1993, Sue Minter, Headling Book Publishing Ltd., London.

Intensive Vegetable Production for Mentally Handicapped People, 1988, Peter Thoday & Rosemary Dodd, Horticulture for All, Gillingham, Dorset.

Landscape Design for Elderly & Disabled People, 1994, Jane Stoneham & Peter Thoday, Garden Art Press, Woodbridge.

Landscape Design in Public Open Space. 1985, N.J. Rowson & P.R. Thoday, Horticulture for All, Gillingham, Dorset.

Therapeutic Horticulture, 1987, Rosemary Hagedorn, Winslow Press, Oxon.

Organisations

AHTA (American Horticultural Therapy Association),
362A Christopher Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879.
01301 948 3010

Gardening for Disabled Trust
The Secretary, PO Box 285, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 9JD.

THRIVE
Trunkwell Park, Beech Hill, Reading, Berkshire. RG7 2AT.
0118 988 5688.

Learning through Landscapes
3rd Floor, Southside Offices, The Law Courts, Winchester SO23 9DL.
01962 846258.

Mary Marlborough Centre
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LD.
01865 227691

People Plant Council
Department of Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0327. USA.

RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind),
224 Great Portland Street, London.
( 0171 388 1266.