At CSED, we’re always inspired by social enterprises that blend creativity, community care, and sustainability. Amano Gardens is a shining example, a local social enterprise that’s transforming how we experience greenery, both indoors and out.
🌿 Nature-Inspired Services for Every Space
Amano Gardens brings life to buildings and communities through a range of thoughtful, eco-friendly services:
- Indoor planter creation and maintenance: Beautiful, low-maintenance plant arrangements for lobbies, entrances, and shared spaces. Amano proudly maintains planters in some shopping malls in Ottawa.
- Outdoor garden and lawn care: Sustainable landscaping using hand tools only, no noisy machinery, no chemicals, and no pesticides.
- Facilitated workshops and horticultural therapy experiences: Guided activities (currently piloting) that help residents and staff connect with nature and with each other.
Their approach emphasizes peace, beauty, and well-being, creating spaces that nurture people as much as plants.
🌱 An Innovative Partnership: Forget for a Moment Foundation and Amano Gardens
A wonderful example of collaboration in action is the new partnership between Forget for a Moment Foundation and Amano Gardens. Together, they’re delivering the Blooming Moments Program, an initiative that blends horticultural therapy with community care.
The mobile and adjustable healthcare planter, created for healthcare facilities to deliver the benefits of nature to those without access, is now available.
Residences with a Healthcare Planter will receive via the Blooming Moments program five weeks of one-hour sessions. Participants will be guided by gardeners and horticultural therapists to care for plants and share garden stories. Along the way, they will experience:
🌿 Reduced stress
🌿 Gentle physical and cognitive activity
🌿 Meaningful social connections
Each session is fully accessible for individuals with limited mobility or autonomy, ensuring that everyone can enjoy the healing power of plants.
If you’re part of a health care facility, long-term care home, retirement residence, or social housing organization, we invite you to explore ways to bring nature and wellness into your community.
🌿 Partner with Forget for a Moment Foundation and Amano Gardens to offer the Blooming Moments Program, a wonderful way for residents and clients to enjoy meaningful, therapeutic gardening experiences indoors.
You can also invite Amano Gardens to facilitate gardening training sessions or hands-on entertainment workshops that spark joy and connection among residents.
And if your property, or one you know, needs professional, sustainable garden or lawn care services, Amano Gardens would love to collaborate.
Please email: Hai Doan at CSED hai@cised.ca or Laura Ospina – at contact@amanogroup.org if you are interested in any services of Amano Gardens.
Let’s work together to grow greener, healthier spaces across our communities!