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In this issue:
news from the gardenI d e a s f o r G r o w i n g y o u r G a r d e n Winter 2012
w w w . F o c k e l e G a r d e n C o m p a n y . c o m
THERAPEUTIC GARDENS SUPPORT WELLNESSTHROUGH PHYSICAL AND SENSORY INTERACTION
here is a growing trend among healthcare institutions, other commercial entities
and even homeowners to incorporate what are referred to as therapeutic gardens into
campus landscapes. The term refers to gardens designed with the purpose of support-
ing the physical and mental well-being of all who interact in some way with the gardenspace. Research, intuition and experience demonstrate that contact with nature can
promote health and resilience through stress reduction, physical interaction and
positive sensory experience.
Psychologists theorize that contact with nature is a basic human need, and that we
love and encourage the continuation of the natural world that we share across human-
kind to preserve our existence. Erich Fromm called it biophilia and E.O. Wilson
examined and expanded the concept. Today, interest in gardening has pushed the
use of a new term hortiphilia. People want to get close to nature. When nature is no
longer accessible to people due to individual limitations or circumstances, the role,
appeal, and need for therapeutic gardens becomes obvious.
Designing and installing therapeutic gardens results in the re-creation of qualities found
in nature and brings these qualities closer to benefit a group of people by promotinginteractions with the natural world. For example, healing gardens have become popu-
lar at hospitals around the country, either for specific groups such as burn or cancer
patients, or a garden with broader access for patients, visitors and employees. Qualities
found in a healing garden might include the sound and appearance of water, quiet or
private seating, an array of interesting and colorful plantings, walkways for strolling and
enjoying the atmosphere of peace.
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The Fockele Garden Company
has been awarded a Grand Award
for Annes Garden at Northeast
Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in
the 2011 Annual Environmental
Improvement Awards Program
sponsored by the ProfessionalLandcare Network (PLANET).
Annes Garden was one of only 29
projects nationwide to earn the top
level designation.
The Fockele Garden Company
partnered with The Medical Center
Foundation on the project, which was
made possible by longtime NGMC
supporters and Foundation donors,
Anne and George Thomas of Gainesville.
We enjoyed collaborating withThe Medical Center Foundation
on Annes Garden, The Fockele
Garden Company Vice President
Julie Evans said. It is a garden that
can be enjoyed year-round and
provides respite for patients, families,
visitors and hospital staff.
The garden is serene and offers all a
place of hope and healing, which was
Anne Thomas vision. As a therapeutic
garden, visitors can experience peace,
restoration and reflection. Large
numbers of hospital staff, visitors,
and patients are drawn to the sooth-
ing atmosphere, the sounds of water,
Elpida the Angel of Hope sculpture,
and the colorful and interesting plant-
ings. According to Nancy Colston,
Annes Garden, a healing garden at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
The Fockele GardenCompany Earns
National Grand
Award for Its Work
on Annes Garden
Jason Somerville oversees Magnolia trace, p.3
Fockele Garden Company professionals become arcsa accredited, P.3
Garden designed to celebrate lanier village estates 10th anniversary, P.3
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Sensory gardens would be full of elements
that encourage and stimulate the senses:
herbs for smell and taste, leaves for touch,
color and texture for sight, water for
sound. Visitors are encouraged to touch
and smell the plants. Horticultural therapy
gardens provide opportunities for physical
interactions with a garden such as plant-
ing, watering, and harvesting. Garden-
ing tools have been adapted for use by
people with differing levels of dexterity,
balance and range of motion.
Physical therapy gardens provide
opportunities for patients to practice
skills such as walking on slopes, steps,
and various surfaces, while outdoors in
a beautiful garden.
Meditation gardens allow for quiet
contemplation and a sense of
peace. Memorial gardens celebrate
the lives of people and events.
Visiting a garden like this encour-
ages our individual and collective
remembrance and grieving.
They remind us of history and
teach future generations.
Studies such as those of environ-
mental psychologist Dr. Roger
Ulrich, published in Science, foundthat surgical patients assigned to
rooms with views of green space
had shorter hospital stays and
needed less medication than
patients in rooms looking onto a brick wall. Evidence Based Design, other wise known
as EBD uses several information gathering
strategies to accumulate data and direct
garden design so that functionality goals -
and budgets - are met.
The Fockele Garden Company designs
and installs all kinds of landscapes, from
physical therapy gardens and commemo-
rative parks, to healing gardens, medita-
tion gardens, labyrinths, and horticulture
therapy gardens.
Identify how you want to interact with
nature through your garden. Your choices
are as limitless as your imagination. Our
designers will hear your ideas and follow
your intentions throughout the design
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Below: The Conner Memorial
Garden in downtown
Dahlonega is a reminder of
the lifetime of contributionsmade by a cherished citizen.
A labyrinth in a private Atlanta garden facilitates walk
meditations for the owners and their neighborhood f
Therapeutic Gardens Support Wellness Through Physical And Sensory Interactioncontinued from page 1
I have often seen patients with very advanced dementia or Alzheimers disease,
who may have very little sense of orientation to their surroundings. They haveoften forgotten, or cannot access, how to tie their shoes or handle cooking
implements. But put them in front of a flowerbed with some seedlings, and
they know exactly what to do I have never seen such a patient plant something
upside down. Dr. Oliver Sacks Restorative Commons: Creating Health
and Well-being Through Urban Landscapes
The American Horticultural Therap
Association sponsored the Freedom
Equality, Accessibility Garden at
the 2011 Philadelphia International
Flower Show. The goals of the exhib
were to educate the public about ho
horticultural therapy can enhance
ones well-being, teach new skills,
distract from pain, reduce stress and
isolation, to provide fun and meanin
ful work in a way that is life-affirmin
www.healinglandscapes.org/.
continued on page 4
Above: Patients at UniHealth Post-
Acute Care in Brookhaven use the
rehabilitation garden to rebuild their
skills. Paths with various surfaces
course over bridges and through
the garden; benches allow for bird
watching and for listening to water
as it bubbles over rocks into a
goldfish pond. Right: The courtyard
at the Oaks of Limestone provides
residents, visitors and staff oppor-
tunities to experience and interact
with nature.
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Rainwater collection systems are a central part of many
garden designs of The Fockele Garden Company.
To remain up to date on the advances and new tech-
nology of rainwater collection, The Fockele Garden
Company Co-Owner Julie Evans and Facilities Manager
David Williams have earned accredited professional
status from the American Rainwater Catchment Systems
Association (ARCSA). Co-owner Mark Fockele had earlierearned the accredited professional designation.
The ARCSA is a non-profit organization that promotes
rainwater catchment systems use in the United States.
Rainwater collection systems allow homeowners or
businesses to collect rainwater for use in irrigating
their gardens. It is an alternative to using municipal
water, which is becoming more expensive and
subject to restrictions.
The Fockele Garden Company can offer many options
if you are interested in collecting rainwater to irrigate
your garden. The company has integrated rainwatercollection systems ranging from 55-gallon rain barrels
up to 10,000-gallon cisterns into landscape designs.
When looking to commemorate its 10th anniversary with a
Founders Garden, Lanier Village Estates turned to the son
of one of its founders for inspiration Mark Fockele of The
Fockele Garden Company.
Lanier Village Estates, an ACTS Continuing Care Retirement
Community in Gainesville, recently dedicated the Fockele-
designed Founders Garden. Among the founders honored
were Marks parents Lou and Jean Fockele. Fockele designed
the garden to be shades of green, with a variety of plants
and textures. The focal point of the garden is an engaging
fountain surrounded by a square pool.
Garden Designed To Celebrate Lanier
Village Estates 10th anniversary
The Fockele Garden Company recently
named Jason Somerville as its Landscape
Maintenance Project Manager for Magnolia
Trace in Huntsville, Ala.
As Project Manager,
Somerville oversees the
maintenance of the 43-
acre ACTS Retirement-
Life Community.
Somerville is a 2002
graduate of Clemson
University, earning a
bachelors degree in
horticulture with a
minor in urban forestry.
He spent nearly six years with Southern
Living magazine as a horticulturist for the
Custom Landscape Program and as a consul-
tant for the Garden Features Department.
Jason Somerville
Oversees Magnolia Trace
Magnolia Trace Earns Huntsville Beautification Awar
Fockele Garden Company professionals become ARCSA accredited
For the second straight year, Magnolia Trace, an ACTS Retirement-Life Community in
Huntsville, Alabama whose landscape design was installed and is maintained by The
Fockele Garden Company, has earned a Huntsville Beautification Award. Magnolia Trac
scored 19.6 out of 20. The judges complimented The Fockele Garden Company on th
good use of plants and the nice colors, balance and texture of the landscape. The
property was one of nearly 300 entries in the competition sponsored by the Beautificati
Board of Huntsville and is open to all commercial and public properties in the city.
Properties were judged on first impression, originality, distinction, design, selection an
quality of plants, maintenance, hardscape design, and litter control.
Julie Evans
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From infancy we concentrate happ
on ourselves and other organisms. W
learn to distinguish life from the ina
mate and move toward it like motha porch lightTo explore and affil
with life is a deep and complicated
process in mental development. To
extent still undervalued in philosop
and religion, our existence depend
on this propensity, our spirit is wov
from it, hope rises on its currents.
E.O.Wilson 1984 Biophilia
The Fockele Garden Company Earns National Grand Award for Its
Work on Annes Garden continued from page 1
Take an online tour of our work @
fockelegardencompany.com/portfolio.html
Executive Director of The Medical Center Foundation, Time and again, we witness the positive change in mood that the garden
facilitates, because people go out of their way to let us know what a difference Annes Garden makes in their experience while
visiting the hospital.
The Fockele Garden Company is a member of the Professional
Landcare Network. PLANETs Environmental Improvement
Awards Program reflects the associations commitment to
creating and preserving the beauty of our landscape. The 42-year old program is designed to reward independent landscape
professionals who execute superior projects. PLANET strives
to increase public awareness of environmental improvement
through landscaping and encourages the consistent use of
quality materials and workmanship.
With more than 3,500 member companies and affiliates, these
firms and their employees represent more than 100,000 green
industry professionals.
We are honored to be recognized by PLANET, Evans said. It is a
project we enjoyed working on and are proud of the results.
A place to sit, surrounded by
fresh air and colorful plants,
stirs reminiscence in the
Memory Walk garden at
Lanier Village Estates.
process, during the installation, and as your landscape matures and you discover
new features you want to incorporate.
As you co-exist withyour landscape youll
benefit from your hortiphilia:
health and resilience,
enriched social interaction,
the satisfaction of environ-
mental stewardship,
serenity and peace, or
sensory pleasure. The
result will be a timeless
interaction between you
and the natural world.
Therapeutic Gardens Support Wellness Through
Physical And Sensory Interactioncontinued from page 2
P.O. Box 671 | Gainesville, GA 30503 | p: 770.532.7117 | f: 770.532.7245 | www.FockeleGardenCompany.com
Owners : Mark Fockele and Julie Evans
Year Founded: 1990 | Employees : 42
Business Breakdown: 60% design/build, 40% maintenance
Customer Breakdown : Mix of residential and commercial