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Welcome to the AIPH pavilion at the Taean International Horticultural-Healing Expo 2026.
Here, we invite you to slow down and reconnect with something simple, familiar, and powerful: plants. Across cultures and generations, people have long turned to nature for comfort, balance, and renewal.
Whether indoors or outdoors, in cities or the countryside, plants play a quiet but essential role in how we feel every day.
This page offers a little more context behind the ideas you see in the pavilion — and why plants matter so much to our health and wellbeing.
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Plants do more than shape the spaces around us. They shape our experiences.
Spending time in green spaces can help us feel calmer, more focused, and more connected to the world around us.
From a walk through a park to caring for plants at home, everyday contact with nature offers moments of pause in busy lives.
For children, green spaces provide places to explore, play, and learn. For adults, they offer restoration, reflection, and relief from stress.
These benefits are felt in many different ways, by people of all ages, and in many parts of the world.
Over recent decades, researchers around the world have studied how plants and green environments affect people’s health and wellbeing.
Their findings consistently show positive links between access to nature and improved quality of life. Time spent in green spaces is associated with reduced stress and improved mental wellbeing.
Contact with nature has also been linked to better attention and cognitive development in children, as well as healthier, more liveable urban environments for communities.
Together, this growing body of research helps explain why plants feel so essential to human life.
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The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) is the World’s Champion For The Power Of Plants. Through our global network of growers, associations, and partners, we work to highlight the value of horticulture in everyday life and to support greener, healthier cities worldwide.
International Horticultural Expos, just like Taean International Horticultural-Healing Expo 2026, bring these ideas to life. They are places where people can experience plants not just as decoration, but as living contributors to wellbeing, sustainability, and quality of life — today and for future generations.
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The information shared in the AIPH pavilion is informed by peer-reviewed research and publicly available studies referenced by AIPH’s own Green City work, city case studies, and international initiatives such as the Green Cities programme coordinated by the European Nurserystock Association (ENA).
This research base helps ensure that messages shared with Expo visitors are grounded in credible, internationally recognised evidence.
Together, these sources help ensure that what you see and experience here is grounded in credible, internationally recognised research.
Further reading and sources
AIPH Green City case studies and city examples
Green Cities research publications and factsheets (ENA)
Thank you for taking the time to explore the AIPH pavilion. We hope your visit inspires you to reconnect with plants and nature, both during the Expo and beyond.
If you would like to continue the journey, you can discover more about global horticulture, urban greening, and the power of plants through AIPH’s programmes and publications.
