Hospitals and Residential Care Homes
Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Psychiatric Courtyard
Castle Hill Hospital, Hull, Sensory Courtyard
Gardens to stimulate senses -sight, sound, smell, touch. Where senses are impaired - sight, hearing, memory, smell - other senses can be stimulated, for example by imaginative planting:
Scented plants for all seasons, herbs, texture to touch, colour and seasonal change
Horticultural therapy
Trees for shade and seasonal change - Arboretum
Wildflower area
Butterfly garden
Plants with berries to attract birds to feed in winter
Raised beds for touching, accessible for wheelchairs
Hard landscaping can also play an important role within a sensory garden:
Tactile and relief paving e.g. cobble mosaic provides visual and tactile focus
Pergola with slatted top to provide dappled shade
Private seating areas for one or two people, small quiet niche areas
Texture trails
Seating may double as raised planters or climbing/balance equipment
Different wall and seat surfaces to touch - timber, stone, metal
Tactile and relief paving e.g. cobble mosaic provides visual and tactile focus
Pergola with slatted top to provide dappled shade
Private seating areas for one or two people, small quiet niche areas
Texture trails
Seating may double as raised planters or climbing/balance equipment
Different wall and seat surfaces to touch - timber, stone, metal
Selected Projects:
Ash Green for North East Derbyshire Health Authority. Learning Disabilities Acute Services Project, Chesterfield. Snoezelen Garden, therapeutic, sensory and disabled gardens
Mencap Sensory Garden at Ashgate for respite care visitors
Orchard Cottage sensory garden for Matlock Health Authority
Therapeutic gardens for Younger Disabled Unit, Rotherham District General Hospital
Courtyards for physiotherapy department at Rotherham District General Hospital
Courtyard gardens, therapeutic gardening and physiotherapy, Lincoln County Hospital phases 1-3 Therapeutic sensory gardens for NCH Action for Children at Chesterfield and Solihull Millennium Memorial Garden, Riccarton campus, Edinburgh
Grounds and gardens for Rotherham Healthcare Trust, including therapeutic horticultural production Alderwasley Hall School sensory gardens
Gainsborough Town Council sensory gardens for Hickman Bacon Memorial Park
Kettlebridge Doorstep Green, Darnall
Bassetlaw Hospital Maternity Courtyard Sensory Garden
Psychiatric courtyard, sensory gardens for Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Physic Garden, The Pearl Centre, Peterborough. Winner of BALI Principal and Grand Award
Mexborough Hospital Green Memorial Garden
Abbey House Whitby, public medicinal and culinary sensory garden, with historic interpretation