Sensory garden

[2] Sensory gardens are designed to provide opportunities to stimulate the senses, both individually and in combination, in ways that users may not usually encounter.

Less common sound components include things like hand instruments (such as drums), echo spaces, and chiming stepping stones.

Sensory or therapeutic gardens can be used to help reduce the symptoms of dementia without the use of drugs through stimulation of the senses, exercising various parts of the brain.

[5] Design characteristics may include water features that produces soothing sounds, pick-and-sniff herb and flower beds, and benches with different types of sand or pebbles to sink their feet into.

[9] Other potential benefits include a calming and relaxing place providing an easy and safe way to exercise with feelings of independence.

Entrance to a sensory garden in Bremen . The 'Blind People's Garden' ( Blindengarten ) in Knoops Park is designed to allow people with visual impairments to find their way around the garden and experience its features without assistance. [ 1 ]