Sensory Garden and Wildflowers for Bees

Garden Club at Disability Support

By Dionne Hunte 

Jo and Simon have a dream of creating a sensory garden and a patch of wildflowers for bees.

The Sensory Garden

For the garden, Jo wants a wide range of flowers, vegetables, fruits, and herbs.

Disability Support will supply the equipment needed for gardening, and accommodations can be made for people’s mobility needs, so anyone who wants to take part can join regardless of disabilities.

The sensory garden dream is to create another form of community that brings people together, helps people learn about agriculture and creates a thriving garden for all to enjoy.

Main area for the sensory garden

How the sensory elements would work:

Sight – from the colours of the flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables being grown.

Smell – from the flowers and herbs.

Touch – the activity of gardening, the feel of the herbs, fruit and vegetables.

Taste – from the herbs, fruit and vegetables when they have grown.

Sounds – from the bees and the community.

Start of the vegetables, fruits and herbs being grown

Here is what has already been grown this year: Jo and Simon have herbs, carrots, potatoes and strawberries.

Wildflowers For Bees

With the wildflowers, Simon wants to help bees access more flowers for pollination; some bee species are endangered, and most of those bees are the ones we depend on for pollination, which keeps our ecosystem healthy and thriving.

With bees being endangered, every small step to ensure they have access to pollen can help improve their survival.

Flowers are seasonal, but getting the right mix will help keep bees around from spring to autumn.

Area for the wildflowers

“The dream is to grow a sensory garden for the community to enjoy.” - Jo.

If you enjoy gardening, or want to get involved, contact us by phone, email or on our social media pages and bring some friends along too.