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Memory garden?

demidouglasdemidouglas Posts: 2
in Garden design
What is a memory garden?

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    google?
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited September 2019
    Swedish heavy metal band @Hostafan1

    https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Memory-Garden 

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I forgot

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Maybe have a look at the post on the allotment gardening thread . 
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/comment/2115293#Comment_2115293
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    A neighbour asked me for some forget-me-not seeds and seedlings for a memory garden as the forget-me-not is the emblem of the memory garden which I understand is for dementia sufferers

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    That makes sense, Pete, in fact I am sure there was a feature on GW on one for dementia sufferers a while ago, but I can't recall which one. Familiar flowers and scents from the past featured heavily.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Such an awful disease which took my mum a few years ago.
    She asked me to get a nice greenhouse with some of the money she left me, so I turned the end of may garden into Mum's Garden with a lovely greenhouse, wildlife pond and raised beds which give me endless pleasure and lovely produce.
    She worked in tomato greenhouses when she was evacuated in WWII and I fondly remember the rows of bottled tomatoes in the pantry from our greenhouse when I was a lad.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's a lovely way to remember your mum @Pete.8.

    I suspect rosemary for remembrance should feature in a memory garden and then favourite flowers to evoke memories from their colour, texture, form and/or perfume.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Thanks @Obelixx
     :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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