WEBINAR: The Edgerton (WI) Hospital Healing Garden - A Case Study

January 9, 2024 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET

Are you curious how other healing gardens grow?

Designed and installed in 2010, this 3-acre garden is all-accessible and open to patients, visitors, staff and the general public. Allowing for both passive and active use, this garden includes a wide range of benches, structures, sculptures, raised beds, sensory plantings and seasonal highlights. The garden is used actively by physical, occupational and recreational therapists and hosts exercise classes, yoga, tai chi and many public events and programs. Over 90% of the garden budget is raised independently of the hospital and volunteers are instrumental in the care of this garden space. This garden will also be expanding in the coming years. We'll discuss the history, active use, features and future of this healing garden.

Mark Dwyer has been the garden manager for the healing garden for three years and was the original designer of this garden space. He has degrees in landscape architecture and urban forestry and prior to his current position, he was the Director of Horticulture for 21 years at Rotary Botanical Gardens (Janesville, WI). 

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