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What is a Sensory Garden?<\/h2>\n

Any outdoor space can enhance your senses. However, a sensory garden is intentionally designed to stimulate and engage all your senses; sight, touch, sound, smell, and taste. This type of garden taps into the principles of mindfulness by connecting you to nature and helps you become aware of the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Benefits of a Sensory Garden-Stimulate All Five Senses<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sensory garden enhances social and communication skills, improves physical and mental health, engages people with disabilities, helps kids learn about nature and supports seniors. These gardens also encourage the use of native plants and pollinator-friendly landscaping in addition to eliminating the use of pesticides.<\/p>\n

For more information on the benefits of a sensory garden, click creating and engaging a sensory garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why Create a Sensory Garden? Why Not!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gardens add another dimension to your yard. They add beauty with an array of colors and create habitats for wildlife. We can all do our part to enhance our planet by creating a garden.<\/p>\n

But why a sensory garden? Sensory gardens add a totally new dimension to your home. They entice you and your guests to observe things at close range, to take in the aromas wafting through your yard, and actively touch all the different textures of plants, bushes, and insects. You begin to wrap your mind around nature through experiencing your garden using all your senses.<\/p>\n

Creating a Sensory Garden: Selecting Plants and Other Accessories to Stimulate Our Five Senses<\/h2>\n

Before selecting plants and accessories, think about how you will address each sense.<\/p>\n

Choose various trees, shrubs, bushes, and grasses that invigorate and revitalize your senses and that are native to your climate (growing zone<\/a>). Also, consider hardscaping features that will intrigue your senses.<\/p>\n

Below is a selection of plants and accessories that will energize you and explanations of how to incorporate them into your sensory garden.<\/p>\n

Sight<\/strong><\/p>\n

To create a visually pleasing garden, add plants with contrasting shapes, hues, forms, and textures. As a rule of thumb cool colors such as purples, blues, and pinks, calm the senses. Whereas, warm tones such as yellows, oranges, and reds excite them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Flowers like zinnias, marigolds, sunflowers and coneflowers add a variety of color and texture to the garden. They also encourage butterflies and other pollinators to visit your garden. Bee balm and coral honeysuckle will definitely attract pollinators you may wish to observe.<\/p>\n

Pink muhly grass that is featured in the picture above adds a bit of a whimsy to your garden when there is a gentle breeze. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t