Horticultural Therapy Program Plan: Greenhouse Operations - Indoor Tropical Plants
by Charles Sourby

HORTICULTURAL THERAPY PROGRAM PLAN

NAME OF PROGRAM: Greenhouse Operations

SESSION NUMBER: 6 DATE: STAFF: htr

SESSION TITLE: Indoor Tropical Plants

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Assorted tropical plants:
a. Snake plants
b. Caladiums
c. Hardy Banana Plants
d. Bromeliads
e. Century Plants
f. Palms

2. Soil less mix
3. Hand Tools
4. Pots
5. Watering Cans

GOALS:

1. To increase sensory awareness
2. To foster creative expression

OBJECTIVES:

1. Upon request, participants will touch, visualize and smell plant materials
2. Following demonstration, participants will make an aesthetically pleasing assortment of potted tropical plants 90% of the time

PROCESS:

1. Arrange tropical plants on greenhouse table
2. Discuss how tropical plants become house plants
3. Have group handle the materials
4. Demonstrate how to pot-up plants
5. Have group pot-up plants
6. Water plants
7. Date & label

DATE:___________________________