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Left & Right RBG ���ColorGraze��� LEDs (inset right) set interior walls aglow (right), inviting visitors to enjoy the healing garden at night. The tree uplighting is simple, sustainable and easily maintained. Multistem honey locust trees (right) are uplit from the other side of the wall with 39-watt metal halide Par20 lamps, as is the Bloodgood Japanese maple (above). Accent lighting is simple, sustainable and easily maintained. Shrouded, louvered, low-wattage, ground-mounted metal halide PAR20s highlight such select trees as yellowwoods and Japanese maples. Shielded tree-mounted LED luminaires splash shadows of leaf, bract and branch onto the stone labyrinth ��� species include sweet gum, fern leaf beech and London plane trees. Plant Palette Layered plantings are lush and dense. The palette was selected for outstanding year round features: fall colors, textures, bark patterns, branching structures, and blooming times. Seating Arrangements Eight varieties of native trees, dwarf evergreens, shrubs, and perennials create a stimulating sensory environment. Species were selected to facilitate a sense of well being in an environment of life and living. Various chairs and tables, benches and wide steps all offer varieties of configurations where a patient may perch. Staff meetings are held in the garden on nice days. Here, family members take their loved ones for short visits. Some enjoy a snack here; others offer prayers. Finding a shady spot to sit under the sweet gum, or snuggled under a beech tree, or even moving a chair to sit in the sun on a warm March day is accommodated at each opportunity in the garden. Other criteria for gardens of this nature were met and exceeded raising the bar for health care design including use of natural materials, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical stimulation, ease-of-way finding, year-round access, continuous interest and change, and engaging multiple senses all contribute to make this garden a success ��� creating that ���somewhere else instead��� environment. 74 Landscape Architect and Specifier News (Continued on page 76)