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to Studio Sprout! Studio Sprout revitalizes relationships with nature in landscapes for living, playing, learning and healing. Our design projects, continuing education classes, white papers and our blog SPROUT! showcase sustainable techniques for South Florida healing and therapeutic gardens, schools, parks and playgrounds as well as public and residential gardens. Studio Sprout focuses on native gardens that attract wildlife, rain gardens and bioswales that clean stormwater and green roofs, green walls and strategically placed trees and shrubs that cool buildings and reduce energy costs. These sustainable landscapes create healthy environments while providing meaningful places to live, play, work and heal.

Formerly known as Roy-Fisher Associates, Studio Sprout has delivered creative design services for public and private projects for close to thirty years. Signature projects include the West Palm Beach Waterfront, Morikami Gardens, Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden at Jupiter Medical Center, Roger Dean Stadium and the American Orchid Society Headquarters Gardens. Collaboration with artists, healthcare professionals, architects, engineers and a variety of specialty contractors results in highly creative constructed projects.

Studio Sprout is committed to sharing our knowledge and experiences. Contact us for one of our classes on sustainable and specialty design topics including Green Roof Considerations for South Florida, Considerations for Healthcare Site Design and Healing Garden Design. Download our white papers and post occupancy evaluations on several of our healing gardens. Studio Sprout is dedicated to Evidence Based Design and looks forward to sharing additional research on healing gardens and sustainable techniques for South Florida.

This month check out the Post Occupancy Evaluation we recently completed at the Pavilion Nursing Home at Jupiter Medical Center posted in the Plant a Seed section of the site. Studio Sprout prepared a master plan for this 120 bed nursing home facility ten years ago, identifying a number of small healing garden opportunities. Ten of these projects have been made possible through grants, community participation and donors as well as capitol funding. The evaluation completed by Chris Garcia over several weeks includes on site observations, interviews with residents and staff regarding the healing garden design and commentary on what works well in the gardens as well as opportunities for improvement.