A garden festival is characterized by its nature as a garden exhibition event. The Seoul Garden Festival was held to expand garden culture, increasing citizens’ quality of life, and also to achieve urban regeneration through discovery and development of features of various gardens in Seoul. Mother’s Garden of Memory is based on the motif of the gardens tended by mothers in the past, and inspires recollection of related memories and stories. Gardens tended by mothers in the past can be encountered today in everyday life as practical living gardens. Facilities and suitable space sizes for a living garden were selected based on previous research results. The exhibition garden was designed to include a fruit tree hill, medicinal plant/herb garden, and butterfly garden in its planting space; a vegetable garden in its multi-purpose space and production space; a pond in its waterscape space; and a seating wall in its resting space. Additionally, the garden’s plants consisted primarily of species that were suitable for the characteristics of each space, could be tended practically, and could be accessed easily. Finally, a garden management plan was established to provide a model for living gardens, ensuring that these gardens could be continuously sustained.

본 연구는 주택정원을 조성하는데 필요한 기초자료를 얻기 위하여 정원을 소유하고 있는 도시민과 소유하지 않은 도시민들의 정원 이용 행태와 선호에 대한 인식을 분석하고자 하였다. 전국 대도시의 농업기술센터에서 도시농업 및 정원 관련 교육이나 프로그램에 참여하는 도시민 508명을 대상으로 실시하였다. 실제 정원 소유 집단의 정원 규모는 넓지 않으며 무소유 집단 또한 소규모의 정원을 가꾸길 희망하고 있다. 정원을 이용하는 목적으로 두 집단 모두 휴식, 먹거리 재배, 마음 안정을 추구하고 있다. 하루 중 정원에서 소요하거나 소요하고 싶은 시간은 30분에서 2시간 정도로 분석되어 일상생활의 여가시간 중 정원 활동이 차지하는 비중이 적진 않다. 정원 소유 집단은 식물(나무)가꾸기, 텃밭가꾸기, 휴식 등의 이용행태를 보이며 무소유 집단 또한 이러한 행태를 희망하고 있다. 이는 이용 목적과 비슷한 경향으로 도시민들은 식물, 나무, 텃밭 등의 정원을 가꾸고 정원에서 휴식을 취하길 기대하고 있는 것으로 사료된다. 정원 조성 시 고려해야 할 사항으로 그늘 바람에 의한 쾌적함, 환경오염에 대한 완충이나 정신적 위안을 포함하는 건강함, 자연성, 아름다움을 중시하였다. 정원에서 식재공간, 휴게공간, 텃밭, 다목적공간 등을 선호하였다. 응답자들은 정원에 그늘을 제공, 계절별 꽃 감상, 열매를 제공할 수 있는 식물, 아름다움 형태 등의 식물 도입을 선호하였다. 정원 관리에 있어서 병해충 및 식물을 비롯한 체계적인 정원 관리방법이 문제가 될 수 있으므로 이를 위한 정원 관리 교육이 진행될 필요가 있다. 또한 정원 소유 집단은 병해충 방제, 식물 전정 및 정지, 식물 파종 및 식재 방법 등 실제적인 교육을 요구하였으며 무소유 집단은 정원 조성방법, 총괄적 관리방법 등에 관한 교육을 선호하여 수요자의 요구에 맞도록 정원 교육이 이루어져야 할 것이다.

Community gardens provide the community with a green area for its residents to enjoy and socially interact with other gardeners. The expected benefits of participating in a community garden, aside from greater access to fresh produce, include increased mental health as well as improved general well-being stemming from increased exercise and socialization. The following is the research result conducted to provide a basic data for the construction of a community garden in a village. Once a community garden is put in place, the residents would intend to utilize it for their rest, stroll, exercise and appreciation. The number of respondents who would use a garden more than once a week turned out to be high, the reason behind which is construed as their willingness to utilize the garden as a place where they could relatively spend more leisure time later on given that the higher the respondents’ age became, the more often they would use the garden. Furthermore, as weekday afternoons’ or weekend afternoons’ participation has been high, it would be desirable if the garden revitalization or a community programs were conducted in line with this timeframe. The efficiency of the community garden would be enhanced when it is located within one kilometer where a person can walk in about 20 minutes. It is anticipated that once the community garden is built, it would be utilized as local residents’ hobby place and that it could serve as urban green space conducive to improving the landscape of a village, and overall, there are high expectations relating to this. As living infrastructure, the community garden can be utilized not just as a space for local residents’ leisure activities and rest areas but for their interactions. Thus, it is estimated that instead of applying a cookie-cutter garden design to all communities, a formulation of a garden needs to be made in a way that designs the space reflective of the characteristics of a community and that introduces needed facilities.