Available online at www.worldscientificnews.com ( Received 22 February 2019; Accepted 07 March 2019; Date of Publication 30 July 2019 ) WSN 132 (2019) 300-307 EISSN 2392-2192 SHORT COMMUNICATION Horticultural therapy in the landscape architecture: Therapeutic garden Agnieszka Zawadzińska*, Piotr Salachna Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland *E-mail address: agnieszka.zawadzinska@zut.edu.pl ABSTRACT Horticultural therapy uses living plants, their products, and the natural environment to provide evaluation therapy, and rehabilitation within a medical model. It is recommended for people who have emotional, physical, educational, and/or behavioral problems. In recent years, a significant rise of interest in therapeutic gardens in the USA, Canada, Europe and the Pacific region, such as Japan, New Zealand or Australia has been observed. Such gardens are specially designed to contain many solutions important for health care, rehabilitation and other types of therapeutic institutions. This article describes the most important aspects of therapeutic garden. Keywords: gardening, green care, healing, horticulture, therapeutic gardens 1. INTRODUCTION Terms such as “Green Care”, “Farm Care” and “Farming for heath” represent a new social movement [Haller 2016, Stevens 2018, Garcia-Llorente et al. 2018, Wagenfeld et al. 2018], which uses the benefits of horticultural therapy and dynamically develops throughout