The Reading Hospital Medical Center gardens designed by Wells Appel embody and promote the hospital’s commitment to introducing nature as a key instrument in the healing process.
The Healing Garden provides a secluded outdoor haven. Feature areas include a stone fountain with reflecting pool, grassy amphitheater, a wooden pergola, mosaic mural, and sculptures. With the sounds of cascading water, the garden is a place to escape from the sterile hospital environment.
The Welcome Garden in the patient drop-off and retrieval area design was influenced by the architecture of the building and integrates a variety of hardscape and landscape solutions including a paved walkway, stepping stones, fountain, trees, and planting beds. The stone walls, vessel fountain and water channel reference nearby Wyomissing Creek.
An interior viewing Courtyard slopes downward in a series of terraces, large boulders strewn casually about are joined by a parade of gingko trees and clustered red barberry bushes. The low maintenance garden is intended for remote viewing and is only accessible to landscape care personnel.
The Reading Hospital Medical Center gardens designed by Wells Appel embody and promote the hospital’s commitment to introducing nature as a key instrument in the healing process.