Abstract:

Plant environment is very important to human health. Both healing garden and horticultural therapy are based on plant environment to promote human health. That is, people’s health can be improved by looking at plant environment or by enjoying the physiological and ecological functions of plants, etc. This paper described the concept of healing garden, horticultural therapy and health, analyzed the relationship between healing garden and horticultural therapy, and reviewed some researches about the relationship between plant environment and human health at home and abroad. The writer gave out some suggestions to improve the research status in China. They were: (1) to pay attention to studying on the impact of plant environment on human health; (2) to build healing garden more positively; (3) to be innovative and construct healing garden with Chinese characteristics.