Sensory Garden
The centerpiece of this garden area is a dramatic sculpture of women
dancing in a circle set on a basalt column. Our vision for this
garden is to fill it with drought-tolerant aromatic herbs and perennial
edible plants that will stimulate the senses of touch, taste, and
smell. In Spring of 2008, with the help of generous donors, we
were able to raise the level of the four central beds in the garden and
build seatwalls around them to increase informal seating in the
gardens.
| Sensory Garden - new plantings |
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| Each seatbed contains aromatic herbs, and plants that engage the
senses. Planted in the center of each bed is a different dwarf fruit tree. |
Farmers' Market attendees enjoy the seating provided by the
seatwalls. |
| Sensory Garden Before |
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| A view of the garden from the patio in Central Park.
The sculpture and a long evergreen hedge that sheltered the garden from the street were the main defining features of the space. |
Square beds surrounding the sculpture were barely visible due to the lack of plantings. |


