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Creating an Enabled Garden

Creating an Enabled Garden. Bruce Dunn Joanna Sanford Jane Walling. What is an Enabled Garden?. Any landscape, garden, patio, or greenhouse space designed around the needs of someone who is physically, developmentally, or psychologically unable to tend a traditional garden.

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Creating an Enabled Garden

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  1. Creating an Enabled Garden Bruce Dunn Joanna Sanford Jane Walling

  2. What is an Enabled Garden? Any landscape, garden, patio, or greenhouse space designed around the needs of someone who is physically, developmentally, or psychologically unable to tend a traditional garden. Types of Enabled Gardens Therapy – therapist guided activities Healing – retreat or place of respite Adaptive – designed for accessibility Memory – benefits Alzheimer and dementia patients Sensory – focused on color, texture, and fragrance

  3. Features Directed & programmed activities Modified features for accessibility & use Well defined spaces & perimeters Carefully chosen plants Support & safety features

  4. Our Focus: Sensory Gardens Sight Smell Auditory Taste Touch

  5. Sight Bright colors to show contrast Well lit Simple transitions Place & plant markings Shapes & numbers Symmetry

  6. Smell Herbs Rosemary Basil Oregano Mint Flowers Stock Roses Water & Moss Soil

  7. Auditory Water features & fountains Wind chimes Leaves Birds, frogs & insects

  8. Taste Herbs Honeysuckle Fruits & vegetables Note: use organic & avoid hazardous chemicals. Of the senses, taste is the one that should be on a case by case basis due to extreme sensory conditions

  9. Touch Tactile Fine motor skills Gross motor skills Weight Warm & cold

  10. Whatever the goal of your garden, it should be a place where people of various ages and abilities can experience the benefits of gardening easily and safely throughout the entire year. Just a few of our local Therapy Gardens Mattey’s Garden – Matthew Whaley Elementary School Freedom Park, Williamsburg Botanical Gardens – Botanical Therapy Garden Chambrel Assisted Living

  11. Resources Accessible Gardening: Tips & Techniques for Seniors & the Disabled. Joann Woy. 1997, StackpolePress Enabled Gardening: An Introduction (info provided by Angela Cingale, Master Gardener). Enabling Garden: Creating Barrier-Free Gardens. Gene Rothert, HTR. 1994, Taylor Trade Publishing Healing Landscapes: www.healinglandscapes.org NCState.edu – Horticulture Department. How to Organize a Community Allotment Garden. http://cals.ncsu.edu/hort_sci/extension/documents/ag-727.pdf UNC.edu http://rehabdesign.web.unc.edu/?projects=accessible-garden-bed-and-adjustable-hanging-basket Sensory Gardens. www.ahta.org (American Horticultural Therapy Organization). The garden as a healer. Mark Epstein. The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce: http://www.djc.com/special/landscape98/10037844.htm. March 31, 1998. Van Mullekom, Kathy. Scout gives Children’s Hospital a therapy garden. Dailypress.com, July 30, 2011. Virginia Cooperative Extension: www.ext.vt.edu Special thanks to Angela Cingale & Pat Crowe for their time and assistance

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