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How To Add Healing Properties To Your Outdoor Living Space

Water Features in the conventional sense has origins in Greece, in the shape of fountains and were thought to be at the heart of the population. Although, in 4000 B.C there is documented proof of the design of fountains within a typical garden structure in Iran, where ceramic vestiges have been discovered. The healing qualities of horticulture in general has been established by many ancient civilizations, with many early communities developing their communes through the use of the land.

The Greeks devised whole temples devoted to revitalization with pastoral settings, gardens, gymnasiums, bathing pools and mineral springs. The population would worship the idol ‘Aesclepius’ and concentrate on spending time relaxing, the temples were used to help healing from illness. The Romans too compiled notes about which plant life had beneficial properties, in the 1st century A.D. a surgeon from the army, Dioscorides compiled a list of 650 herbal remedies and how to locate and use of individual plants to medicate.

The Centre for Therapeutic Horticulture founded at The University of Minnesota’s Landscape Arboretum has been established since 1992. The Centre concentrates on exploration into the importance of relationship people with plants in reference to physical condition and recovery within the healthcare surrounding. The modern investigation into this relationship seems to establish that being close to and benefitting from the beauty of the natural world stimulates our sense of well being and increases the chance of physical recovery. The sound of running water is supposed to enhance our feeling of well being and relaxes the mind. As human beings are 70% water the basic need for water is being fulfilled and perhaps a constant assurance is given to us to know we are within a close proximity to water.

In the last twenty years water features have increasingly become a customary within landscaping. The BBC recognized the need for people to become aware of their garden and scheduled the hugely popular Ground Force to help people recognized the potential and the huge benefit and pleasure to be gained from up keeping a garden. There are also the financial benefits with a garden adding significant value to any property when it’s well maintained but it is about having the extra area to calm down, relax and even entertain.

Contemporary water features can come in various shapes and sizes and really there’s something for everyone, there’s no excuse for the plastic pond anymore. In terms of materials there is a huge selection of materials being used in the design of water features from the current trend of stainless steel to traditionally stylish stone carving. Creating a new look in your garden by devising a water feature would fashion a new element of your garden and improve your enjoyment of the garden and may benefit your health also.

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Chelsea is a part-time columnist, writing infrequent columns on water features, who specialise in unique and designer water features and provide them throughout the UK.

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