Resources / Downloads - landscape design  for disability and urban design

To request fact sheets on therapeutic horticulture topics as listed below please contact us.  We are happy to share our expertise. As research-led practitioners we advise governments, NGOs, the WHO, architects, community trusts, developers, hospitals,  primary care trusts, schools, universities and youth detention facilities. Please respect all copyright and know that any infringement will be enforced by law. 

1. gardening with impaired vision,

2. sensory gardens,

3. vertical gardens,

4. healthy habits for gardening,

5. container gardening,

6. designing a garden,

7. gardening with raised beds,

8. developing a sensory garden for adults with disabilities

and

9. General useful Resources

Horticultural Therapy (HT) offers a programme of beneficial gardening activities. HT gardens are variously called therapeutic gardens, healing gardens and sensory gardens. Our sensory gardens are low maintenance, cost-effective, ecologically healthy. Talk to us to find out more

For further information on designing for children with disabilities, please contact us. We can also supply: environmental education teaching resources for teachers of students with special educational needs and residential adaptive design.

INSET days and CPD for special educational needs teachers and INSET Days specifically for special needs schools and units are available. For dates and details please request our SEN INSET day brochure here, or contact us . On-line Continuing Professional Development resources for using the natural environment as a teaching resource will be available soon.

If you are interested in hosting a workshop on using your sensory garden within lessons, using your school grounds to enhance delivery of the National Curriculum, or developing a sensory garden as part of your sustainable schools development please contact us.

If you would like to come to the Alice Holt Forest, Farnham, Surrey, we would be happy to welcome you to a twilight session or one day Learning Outside the Classroom workshop event.

All abilities and age groups benefit from sensory stimulation. Sensory garden design for schools Seminar topics include sensory garden design - using planting, surfacing, appropriate play structures and interactive features such as water, sound and light, and how best to include them in your programme. Sensory gardens can be designed as environmental study gardens too, to suit even modest budgets and tiny spaces.