Sensory Garden Designer

Sensory gardens are an area of landscape architecture that is often overlooked in the thinking of project planners. Sensory gardens often have the main purpose of reducing stress, anxiety, and depression through sensory stimulation.

These sensory gardens can be created through several methods. These methods use botanical color palettes, sculpture, and nature-inspired features in order to create a memorable sensory garden design.

There are designers who can help plan the concepts, visualizations, and eventual implementation of these sensory gardens. Sensory garden designers can come from many different types of backgrounds such as landscape architects, botanical artists, or horticulturists.

Sensory garden designers are often hired for garden designs that are located in a public space, like a botanical park or kids’ garden, or a private area such as a company courtyard.

One of the reasons sensory gardens are becoming popular in public spaces, company courtyards, and botanical parks is that this type of garden has been proven to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. The main senses for sensory gardens are sight, sound, and touch. For example, a tactile decision a sensory garden design might make is to play with humidity. The garden design audience could then feel the moisture and coolness in a tropical portion of the garden.

Botanical experiences have also become popular in certain communities because sensory garden designers include specific plants for children with sensory processing disorders, autism, and sensory integration challenges.

Sensory processing disorder symptoms frequently include oversensitivity to sensory stimulation, under-sensitivity (hypersensitivity), or both. Children who suffer from sensory processing disorder can benefit greatly by spending time within sensory gardens designed specifically for sensory integration therapy.

The sensory aspects of a garden design are just as important as the plants. For example, a sensory garden with beautiful blooms can be just as effective as sensory gardens that highlight sculptures and abstract artwork.

A sensory garden should never contain sensory plants alone. There’s more creativity to be had!

Sensory garden designer example image — topiary garden and pond

Topiary and sensory garden designer example — design #08

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Sensory garden designer sketchwork - visualization of a topiary garden

Asian topiary and landscape design for a sensory garden

Landscape image of a topiartist's garden designs with people walking through the topiary

Topiary design idea illustration: a perpetual plans or canopy of trees and shrubs

If you’d like to learn more about sensory gardens and sensory garden design, or if you’re ready to hire a sensory garden designer for your next landscape project, get in touch using the contact form here at Oddtoe.

Also, look out for more 3d sensory garden designs on this site and various social profiles (links below).

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If you’re considering hiring a sensory garden designer, Oddtoe would love the opportunity to work with you on your next project! Design a sensory garden tailored to suit your needs. Don’t hesitate — contact Oddtoe today!

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Hiring the Right Sensory Garden Designer Can Make All the Difference

Sensory gardens have been proven to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression through their use of color, art, and nature-inspired features. Increasingly, local governments, tourism centers, hospitals, corporate well-being centers, and botanical gardens are becoming interested in re-using existing spaces for sensory gardens.

A well-designed sensory garden intends to affect people’s calmness and attention to beauty.

Sensory gardens are created with many different types of plants such as flowers, shrubs, and ornamental trees. Oddtoe loves the geometry that’s possible with topiary. In this way, you can create spaces of pure air in your sensory garden by using certain botanical shapes and voids in between these shapes. For example, you can design ‘pockets’ of space under certain tree species. Then an area is designed to feel serene by planting lots of cool-colored plants like bluebells.

Questions about

Sensory Garden Design?

What are the reasons to get a sensory garden designed?

Sensory gardens certainly hold a lot of potential for a host of therapeutic reasons. However, there is one big, more simplistic reason why the world needs more of them: they’re beautiful to relax in.

What services does a sensory garden designer provide?

Oddtoe’s sensory design service can include the thinking around materials such as bark, gravel, grasses, flowers, and shrubs; and features such as waterfalls, trails, and small ponds.

This service seeks to: 1) enhance both the visual appeal of your land; 2) imagine the sounds and tactile experiences your audiences will have. Always with a focus on relaxation and contemplation.

Oddtoe can guide you through selecting sensory plants that are best suited to your space – sensory gardens can be incorporated into public spaces such as city parks, museum courtyards and private gardens.

What does a sensory garden look like with global warming?

Drier climates will be the norm. Succulents and semi-arid topiary are a specialty in Oddtoe’s southern hemisphere and Middle East work. In more moderate climates, irrigation systems and cold weather landscape needs are considered.

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Sensory gardens are pleasing, often outdoor spaces. They provide a tranquil resting place for people of all abilities, and sensory gardens can be tailored to suit the needs of visitors with sensory sensitivities.

A sensory garden designer will ensure that a garden design matches the needs of each client but then goes further.

Don’t bore people. Nature can dazzle just as much as a video game or a movie. You just have to be open to the possibility. Oddtoe offers assistance in terms of 3d design, project planning, and liaising with local landscape services contracted for the build of your project.

Oddtoe does not offer construction services, but the plans for that construction.