Sensory gardens are designed to stimulate your senses, they create a therapeutic and learning environments through, touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight. These types of gardens are ideal for all ages and have endless possibilities for design and function. Delve into our latest case study where we designed a wheelchair friendly sensory garden.

This sensory garden is designed with natural colours, various relaxation spots, and therapeutic sounds to encourage more time in the garden for wheelchair users.

Planning Out Your Wheelchair Friendly Sensory Garden

When planning the look of this garden, possible disabilities, loss of senses and general usability were the focal point of design. Including, high raised flower beds, lower observatory points, wider pathways and wheelchair accessibility making this garden inclusive of all needs.

Raised flower beds and vegetable grow stands allow independence when gardening, and make maintenance easier for the user. Flat levelled surfaces provide easy wheelchair access around the garden, with no tight corners or obstacles making this garden perfect for wheelchairs and motorised scooters.

Starting with the main focal points of the garden, from the multi-textural cylindrical structures, the warmth from the crackling fire pit and soft flowing sounds of water feature. These features have been chosen to provide a sophisticated area for smells, touch, hearing and sight. Including a heightened gardening station can also bring the taste sense into the mix.

Lighting enhances visibility in low light and increases safety when moving around the garden, especially during the winter months. Lighting can also be used as a stimulating and decorative interest. Lights around the garden within the flower beds can create a calm and safe feeling space to alleviate nervousness and add ambience to a cosy evening around the fire pit.

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If you are looking to have a sensory garden designed then get into contact with us today! T0 see some previous examples of our work then please click here.