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    Therapeutic Sensory Garden

    Hello all 

    I am an OT developing a patient led sensory garden project. Having to be very creative due to my minuscule budget and shady balcony area 

    I am also a smallholder, we pull in around 300 bales of hay and keep a small flock of southdownsheep and a rescue pony. Soon to be proud owners of a few chickens

    Have dabbled in growing veg for some years with occasional success. Having a fresh try again this year to help support my organic diet. Interested in permaculture and would like to keep bees in future


    Nice to 'meet' you all 
    Tags: chickens, hay, smallholding
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    Hello and welcome to the vine!

    Whereabouts are you based? (we're not after specifics...just a rough idea)
    http://goneplotterin.blogspot.co.uk/

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    • #3
      How gorgeous. I just planted a sensory garden for myself.

      For the more shady area (that'll be most of my plot), what's worked for me are potatoes, radishes left to go to seed and eat the pod, wild garlic and nasturtiums (eat the young leaves, flowers and seeds). Watercress is good too.

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      • #4
        Hello, welcome to the forum, I am sure your sensory garden will be wonderful
        The best things in life are not things.

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        • #5
          Hello TG & welcome to the Jungle.
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          • #6
            Hi there and welcome to the Vine!
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            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              Hello - welcome to the Vine and I hope you find it useful.
              I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

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              • #8
                A very warm welcome to the forum, dear soul.
                Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
                Everything is worthy of kindness.

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                • #9
                  Hi and welcome, for smell I'd go for lavender, I grow it everywhere in the garden so unless it's like dark shady all the time they'll be fine. Poppies will also grow anywhere and give you not only colour but also give you sound when the seed heads dry out, advantage or disadvantage depending on your outlook is they self seed anywhere and I mean anywhere, I even have them growing out of the wall where the seeds have landed and grown without any sign of soil.

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                  • #10
                    Helcome to the Vine,

                    I love basil, purple ones are especially pretty, so many different types and you can smell it so beautifully
                    I grow 70% for us and 30% for the snails, then the neighbours eats them

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                    • #11
                      Hallo and welcome. Sounds like a lovely idea.
                      Pots of Night Scented Stock have an amazing smell and are so easy to grow.
                      Nicotininea (the white variety) also has a beautiful perfume.
                      Good luck with your project.

                      And when your back stops aching,
                      And your hands begin to harden.
                      You will find yourself a partner,
                      In the glory of the garden.

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                      • #12
                        Welcome to the vine. How about Artemisia arboretum? Shrub with soft feathery foliage and a wonderful scent and can be clipped to keep it small.

                        Best of luck with the garden
                        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                        • #13
                          Some small ferns for their tactile element?
                          Life should be more like Bonsai...

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