Very inspiring article. The author might consider querying the American Horticultural Therapy Association (www.ahta.org) to see if they'd be interested in publishing it -- or a version of the case study -- in their journal. Right up their alley.

Since completing the 10-day residential training last month, I have taken purposeful walks with patients at the inpatient program I work at. All sorts of "diagnoses", we walk in Japanese Tea talk rules and look for wildflowers. This past week we found 13 different samples in our 30 minute walk, brought them back inside and observed the differences in structure, color, etc. People reported what you would xpect, they were engaged and for that interval, were not their diagnosis. Now other staff are intrigued by what happened and are asking how they could incorporate similar activities into the day.

Come winter and piles of snow on the ground I will need a new approach!