Sensery garden

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• Ceres Posts: 2,698

  April 2021

  Hi and welcome to the forum.

  It rather depends which senses you are trying to stimulate and where the garden is to be located. Will you be planting in raised beds or at ground level?

  Woolly lavender smells gorgeous and is nice to touch because it has furry leaves. There are a lot of different lavender varieties that will all smell beautfiul when the plants are touched. They do need to be in a sunny location as do a lot of the herbs. Mint (several types, all different scents), rosemary, sage, thyme. If you want sound instead of scent then go for grasses that rustle in the breeze. Pheasant tail grass looks good but there are a host of different ornamental grasses to fill any niche.

  
  

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• Omori Posts: 1,674

  April 2021

  Just a few suggestions...
  
  Taste (strawberries, etc)
  
  Touch (interesting textures such as lamb’s ear)
  
  Sight (colourful flowers - zinnias for example)
  
  Sound (grasses)
  
  Smell (herbs)

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• Davejohno1966 Posts: 7

  April 2021

  Thanks for your help that has given me a plan to work to probably looking at growning in pots made a wooded area to start with

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• Athelas Posts: 946

  April 2021 edited April 2021

  Taste - nasturtium is edible; sweet basil
  
  Touch - grasses such as Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’ for their soft flower plumes; non-spiky succulents; woolly thyme
  
  Sight - different coloured heucheras
  
  Sound - bamboo (best in a pot, not in the ground); plants with seed pods; a small trickling water feature 
  
  Smell - honeysuckle; star jasmine; choisya; sweet peas; chamomile; rosemary; chocolate cosmos; lemon scented geranium; if using mint keep it in a pot or else it will spread everywhere 
  
  

  Cambridgeshire, UK

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• Davejohno1966 Posts: 7

  April 2021

  Thanks just need to work out a plan now and go shopping you helped big time

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