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Outdoor Biophilia - b

Requirement: 
b
Description: 

Consists of, at minimum, 70% plantings including tree canopies (within the 25%).

Support Threshold: 

Marcus and Sachs' Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-based Approach to Designing Healing provide guidelines for planting, including the provision of gardens that have an approximate ratio of 70% softscape (plants) to 30% hardscape.

Part: 
Outdoor Biophilia
RecDocTitile: 
Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-based Approach to Designing Healing