Sensory Gardens
What is a sensory garden?
Encourage touch, taste, admire and
listen!
Provide healing therapy!
Sound
• Plants that draw in birds,
butterflies and bees.
• Ornamental grasses that
blow in the wind.
• Birdhouses and Birdbaths
are ways to incorporate art
into your garden to bring
inviting sounds.
Touch
• Soft, fuzzy foliage varies
with whispy or rough
foliage.
• Vary texture of tree and
shrub bark.
• Utilize smooth stone, rough
glass, or various building
materials.
Smell
• Use herbs to
bring fragrance.
• Honeysuckle,
gardenia and
fragrant flowers
and shrubs.
Sight
• Vary height by
climbing vines on
trellises.
• Vary heights of plant.
• Vary the colors of
green.
• Vary the colors of
flowers.
• Use sculputures to
show varying change
of sunlight
throughout the day.
Taste
• Use edible fruits,
herbs and spices to
encourage visitors to
taste!