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Design Help
Information on how to organize, design, and build your sensory garden according to your garden type and available space.
A Sensory Garden Without Hedges
Not all gardens can be framed by hedges. Try living walls instead. Plants clean the air. They reduce pollution. They provide privacy....
Hedge Design in the Sensory Garden
Protect your sacred space from the outside world with a well-designed hedge. Here are some tips. Catch the bad air before it enters your...
How Sound Travels Through Your Sensory Garden
How to use plants and other garden materials to create a peaceful oasis free of harsh sounds. Why we care about sound One of the primary...
Creating a Sensory Moon Garden
Plants that glow under moonlight give nighttime a time to look forward to. There you can find healing, and achieve better physical,...
An Overview of Traditional Garden Styles
Choosing a style that fits your needs is an important start to creating the garden of your dreams.
Turfgrass options for a Sensory Garden
Having an open space in the middle of the garden is easy on the eyes and gives a place to lay down. One option for the central open space...
Create a Sensory Garden for Intimacy
A big part of your health and wellness can start in the bedroom. If you create a secluded garden immersed in smells that arouse, you may...
A Sensory Garden Full of Life
With some additions, you can add character and share your garden with small friends of all types. It is no surprise that we are paving...
Match Your Structures with Your Sensory Garden Style
Design your garden to cohesively work with your house or others structures to provide a unified feel. Your garden is a refuge, make a...
Don't Kill Your Spring Plants with Salt
If you live where it snows and gets icy in winter, you may be causing harm to your plants if you are putting salt down. Here are some...
What Plants Can Keep the Bad Bugs Away Naturally
Some aromatic plants can keep insects and other organisms away from plants you wish to protect. Plant aroma can form a protective...
Build a Patio Sensory Garden When Space is Limited
Just because you have a small space doesn't mean that you don't have room for a great sensory garden. With some careful planning, you can...
Continuously update a Sensory Garden Journal
It's easy to forget what our garden looks like throughout the year unless we write it down. We do most of our pruning, planting, and...
Designing a Sensory Garden on a Slope
We don't always have a nice level ground to plant a garden, so how do we make the most of sloped land when designing and building our...
Vertical Gardening in a Sensory Garden
To save space and immerse people in the garden experience, consider growing up. What is vertical gardening? Vertical gardening is about...
Tips for designing a sensory garden
Consider whether you are matching elements of garden design before, during, and on an ongoing basis. Form and Structure Consider color,...
Some hearing sensory garden tips
There are a few things to consider including in your sensory garden to make a magical sound experience. Anytime you find some nature,...
A quick shout-out to our pollinator friends
Make sure to thank the bees, butterflies, moths, and other animals that do their best to keep your flowers blooming in your sensory...
Elements of a formal sensory garden
If you seek striking images of symmetry, control, and style, a formal garden may be for you. For lovers of order over chaos The most...
Sensory Garden Colors for those with Anxiety
Using the right colors in the garden can make the garden a refuge from worry and bring peace to an anxious mind. The objective of a...
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