Leisure farming is booming with the strong support of the national policy,the rapid development of agriculture is also a key factor in promoting China’s economic progress,and China’s traditional agriculture is gradually forming a new model of leisure agriculture development that combines agriculture and tourism.Leisure agriculture has emerged to provide a suitable place for people to relieve their physical and mental health,horticultural therapy is gaining more and more attention and recognition as a new way to use horticultural activities to play a healing role.Horticultural therapy is a natural way to improve people’s mental health and bodily functions through plant-based sensory activities and horticultural experiences,etc.Integrating the concept of horticultural therapy in the leisure agriculture garden environment can not only enable people to enjoy the beautiful idyllic scenery in leisure tourism,but also satisfy the pursuit of health and wellness in nature,and at the same time can drive the development of rural economy.Therefore,the combination of horticultural therapy and leisure agriculture garden is not only complementary in function but also relatively satisfies people’s demand for health.This paper outlines the theories of leisure agriculture and horticultural therapy,then analyzes and summarizes the design methods that can be learned from the cases of leisure agriculture parks at home and abroad,and then takes leisure agriculture park as the research object,selects Yibin leisure agriculture park as the practice target,combines the local farming culture characteristics of Yibin,analyzes the current situation of leisure agriculture park environment landscape and summarizes the corresponding problems,and proposes the landscape design of leisure agriculture park under the theory of horticultural therapy.We propose new ideas for the landscape design of leisure agriculture park under the theory of horticultural therapy and explore the landscape design methods suitable for Yibin leisure agriculture park.From the perspective of horticultural therapy,connect plants,environment and people closely,and plants are reasonably configured to create a landscape space with healing effects,forming a leisure agricultural park with cultural characteristics that integrates farming experience,field tourism,horticulture and recuperation and horticultural therapy with ecological base to meet the needs of various people.It is hoped that this study on the landscape design of horticultural therapy-based leisure agriculture garden may provide some references for the application of horticultural therapy in leisure agriculture garden,so that the landscape design based on horticultural therapy can be more widely used in the future. |