What would be in your sensory garden? That is part of what makes a garden special. All the senses can be directly represented.
The Reif Winery on the River Road has a wine sensory garden, and it is time for a visit/revisit to check it out. There is another sensory garden close by - the Lucy Maud Montgomery Sensory Gardens.
"The Children's Garden of the Senses in Norval Ontario is a Sensory Garden. The Garden is dedicated to the famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery and it pays tribute to her writings especially about gardens and landscapes which she describes in a very sensory way.
The Garden is a fun-filled interactive sensory garden for children, as well as for people of all ages and abilities, which allows them to regain contact with nature through the use of the human senses."
There are 10 gardens. Each is designed to stimulate one or two of the human senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, through the careful selection of plants and other landscape elements that elicit the desired sensory responses.
The gardens? Checkerboard (visual), Keyhole (Smell), Semi-Circle (visual interest through texture, unusual shape and interesting form), Sundial and Rock Garden (Touch, sight), Spiral (Sight, sound), Woodland (Sight, touch), Waterfall (Sight, sound), Edible (Taste), Butterfly (Sound), Hummingbird (Sound).
What about the picture below? We visited the Niagara Falls Showcase Greenhouse to see Arum Titan blooming in 2014. It is the biggest "plant" in the world. That's one flower and it grows one leaf stalk - about 20 feet tall. We went for the sensory experience - the smell of rotting flesh. Not your normal idea of what should be featured in the sensory garden of smell.
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