Sensory garden

A Garden for the Blind is a garden for the blind and / or visually impaired to enable the self-employed with plants and other garden elements.

In blind gardens especially many plants found with a distinctive scent ( perfume plants) and interesting leaf surface structure or flower shape.

Blind gardens feature maps in relief, which refocuses in the plant. The beds and borders are applied increases, on one hand, the routing is good palpable, on the other hand, the plants are at a height comfortable for touching it and smelling. Signs in Braille are also included. In addition to living plants often sawn wood and bark and stones and minerals are available for sensing. Also, the ground on which the visitor moves, can, for example through gravel or bark mulch, be varied and diversified. Betastbare sculptures with different surface structures, often water games ( both noise and tactile experience ) and sound body are other possible ingredients.

Some blind gardens are also wheelchair accessible applied to multiple to allow physically disabled persons.

Well the world's first Garden for the Blind was established in 1939 in Exeter. In Germany there since the 1960s dummy gardens.

Germany

The first garden for the blind in Germany, who originated from private initiative, is located in Knoops Park in Bremen. It is freely accessible, is considered unique nationwide concept and has already been the subject of numerous graduate and research. Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ' 14.5 " N, 8 ° 40' 5.2 " O53.17078.6681

More Blind gardens there are in Germany, among others

• In the " Park of Gardens" in Oldenburg,
• In the floodplain of Bonn,
• In the Arboretum Ellerhoop - Thiensen,
• In the Weihenstephan gardens in Freising,
• In the Botanical Garden Klein Flottbek
• In the city park Harburg,
• In the palace gardens small Heubach ( Garden for the Blind St. Odilia )
• In the Rose Garden of the Municipal Nursery Bischweiler in Munich and
• Radeberg ( Botanical Garden for the Blind Stork ).

Austria

The first blind garden of Austria was founded in 1959 in Wertheimstein Park in Vienna. This garden dates back to role models in Edinburgh and Brighton. He is very little frequented; for use must be picked up at the gardeners of the park is now a key.