Healthy And Therapeutic Gardens

MARBELLA, Spain - Nov. 7, 2025 - PRLog -- HEALTHY AND THERAPEUTIC GARDENS
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We design gardens that enhance the health and well-being of citizens, evoking natural landscapes and strengthening urban ecosystems.

• These are low-water-use spaces, conceived in line with sustainability principles and climate change adaptation, where art enters into dialogue with nature.
• We foster biodiversity, apply biocontrol strategies, and align our work with the Green Cities Rule 3-30-300.
• National and international projects without losing sight of classics like Plato, who taught his classes in a garden called the Academy.

Can green urban contribute towards climate change?

Yes - investing in nature, health and sustainability

Rosa Ceño, the landscaper of "Healing Gardens"

• Can public health be improved through gardens?
• Can spending time in a garden make us happier?
• Can nature heal?
• Do green spaces positively influence groups with visual and auditory impairments, mental health centres and hospitals, elderly care homes, educational centres, or physical and social rehabilitation programmes?

These are questions that our ancestors would have answered without hesitation: yes.

Since antiquity, gardens and orchards were incorporated into population centres: Plato taught in a garden called the Academy. Landscaper Rosa Ceño, a specialist in healthy and therapeutic gardens, designs green spaces that help reduce noise, environmental, and light pollution in our cities, and advocates the 3-30-300 Green Cities Rule formulated by Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch: see 3 trees from home, have 30% vegetation coverage in the neighbourhood, and be within 300m of a park.

Is it possible to regain energy through nature? Yes, because exercise in green spaces and sun exposure improve mood by increasing endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin. Parks and gardens have proven benefits for humans: they foster social cohesion and empathy, improve self-esteem, and help relieve depression and anxiety, lowering heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol, the stress hormone. Young people increasingly spend more time on video games, tablets, or mobile phones, while older adults spend more time watching television, to the detriment of outdoor activities.

Gardens to mitigate climate change
How can we promote, in the 21st century, more sustainable cities adapted to climate change? Through planning, design, quantification, and management of urban green infrastructure. In our projects, we create shade, introduce resilient plants, apply mulching, and design efficient irrigation systems, while using tools that allow us to quantify the benefits provided by the natural environment, including i-Tree, InVEST, or ARIES. We also select low-water-demand plant species using WUCOLS (Water Use Classification of Landscape Species), a tool developed in California (USA) to classify plant species according to water requirements.