Abstract:From the perspective of human needs, the needs of users for hospital plant landscapes are summarized as three progressive steps: physiology and safety (needs for medical treatment and rehabilitation), society (needs for interpersonal communication) and psychology (needs for aesthetics and comfort). Guided by the three needs, the plant landscape of 8 representative hospitals was investigated. The results show that there are 133 species of plants used in these hospitals, belonging to 54 families and 106 genera. Among them, there are a total of 10 kinds of external therapy type health-care plants, and a total of 79 kinds of ornamental plants. Based on the analysis of the hierarchy of needs, strategies are put forward to create a more humanized hospital plant landscape: expanding the use of external therapy type health-care plants, and building a clear health-care plant area; using plants to divide space reasonably; refining the characteristics of the hospital,enriching plant species,and creating representative landscapes with clear themes and so on.