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SENSORY GARDENS
Project Update
July 31, 2009 Oklahoma Developmental Disability Council Oklahoma Cit OK Okl h City, Michael Schnelle
Professor and Extension Specialist p Ornamental Horticulture OK State University
Michael Holmes
Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture OK State University
Project Timeline
Year One
Seeking Input --- listening to the experts Design g Implementation (Phase 1)
Year Two
Implementation (Phase 2)
Year Three
Workshop Train the Trainer Factsheets
Looking Ahead
On-going Educational Programs
Sensory Garden
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
Faculty and staff in the Department of Horticulture and D t t f H ti lt d Landscape Architecture have a unique blend of interests/ backgrounds that favor horticultural therapy projects
ODDC personnel recognized our faculty/staffs past successes via horticultural therapy workshops and related endeavors
More and more attention is being paid to making an area or two of the g g garden enjoyable to everyone, regardless of what the condition of their sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, or mobility might be
SENSORY GARDENS
USERS We anticipate a diversity of users ranging in age and developmental and intellectual abilities.
Total Garden: 4,000 sq ft Raised Beds: 300 lin ft Planting Area: 2,500 sq ft Hardscape: 1,500 sq ft
Overall Plan
Gathering Room
Overall Plan
Taste
Touch
Planting Plan
Planting Plan
Irrigation Plan
Braille Sign
Project Timeline
Year Two
Implementation (Phase 2)
Hardscape Walkways (not funded in ODDC grant) Interpretive Signage Interactive Programmatic Elements g Shade Structures Benches
Project Timeline
Year Three
Workshop Train the Trainer Factsheet
Looking Ahead
On-going Educational Programs
SENSORY GARDENS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
The gardens will be designed primarily for self-guided t lf id d tours. Throughout the garden there will be educational signage as well as interactive programmatic di l ti displays On-site educational programs and workshops will be occasionally provided