Horticultural therapy, also known as horticultural therapy in Korea, is simply defined as the use of gardening for therapeutic purposes. Studies have shown that horticultural therapy can slow heart rate, improve mood, and alleviate pain. While it can significantly aid patient recovery in hospitals, it can also foster a healthy lifestyle in everyday life.

1. Eliminate anxiety and impatience

It is reported that working in a place where you can see flowers, plants and trees can not only reduce labor intensity, but also make workers feel satisfied. If it is a gardening activity area, the effect is even better.

2. Expose the atmosphere

Generally speaking, red flowers excite, yellow flowers brighten, and blue and white flowers create a sense of tranquility. Appreciating flowers and trees can stimulate, regulate, and relax the brain.

3. Cultivate creative passion

Various gardening activities, such as potting plants and garden flower planting, involve arranging and processing naturally beautiful plant materials according to one's own imagination to turn them into works of art. This activity can inspire creative passion.

4. Suppress your impulses

Preparing the land, digging holes, moving flowers and trees, planting and fertilizing in a natural environment can not only consume physical energy but also suppress impulses, which is conducive to the formation of good character over time.

5. Cultivate patience and concentration

When pruning flowers and trees, one should be selective in cutting back, and when sowing, one should cover the soil at different depths according to the size of the seeds. These all require care and attention. Therefore, long-term gardening will cultivate patience and concentration.

6. Enhance the planning of actions

When to plant, when to transplant, when to prune, when to fertilize... Different plant species have different tasks, and the timing and seasons vary accordingly. Planning gardening activities beforehand can effectively strengthen your sense of time.

7. Enhance your sense of responsibility

Because flowers and trees are living things, if they are not properly managed or neglected, they will wither. This can make us realize what work we have to do, thus generating and strengthening our sense of responsibility.

8. Build self-confidence

When the flowers and trees you have cultivated bloom and bear fruit, you will be praised by people. This means that your hard work is recognized by people, and you will feel satisfied and your self-confidence will be enhanced.

9. Improve social skills

Participating in group horticultural therapy activities, using gardening as a topic, can generate resonance and promote communication, thus cultivating coordination with others and improving social skills.

10. Enhance motor function

From sitting activities such as sowing, transplanting, potting, and planting arrangements to standing activities such as land preparation, watering, and fertilizing, the eyes, head, fingers, hands, feet, etc. are used every moment, which is a comprehensive whole-body exercise.