Sensory Gardens - Oklahoma State University Botanic Gardens
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The document provides an update on the project to develop sensory gardens at the Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens. It outlines a 3-year timeline that includes design and implementation phases, workshops, and factsheets. The sensory gardens will feature raised beds, hardscape, and interpretive signage to create spaces for sight, smell, touch, taste and sound for visitors of all abilities."
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Sensory Gardens - Oklahoma State University Botanic Gardens
- 1. OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDENS SENSORY GARDENS Project Update July 31, 2009 Oklahoma Developmental Disability Council Oklahoma Cit OK Okl h City, Michael Schnelle Michael Holmes Professor and Extension Specialist p Assistant Professor Ornamental Horticulture Landscape Architecture OK State University OK State University
- 2. 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
- 3. Location : OSU Botanical Garden
- 4. OSU Botanical Garden Current > 10,000 annual visitors Goal > 100,000 annual visitors
- 6. 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/staff’s past successes via horticultural therapy workshops and related endeavors
- 7. HORTICULTURE AND L.A. L A OUTREACH/ EDUCATION • Horticultural therapy workshops • Youth-oriented events • General public
- 8. WHAT IS A SENSORY GARDEN? • Plants and other design elements are selected with intention to provide p experiences for seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, and tasting • Regardless of the designer’s g g interpretation of what a sensory garden really is, the expectation is that the garden will be accessible and designed for universal enjoyment j y • 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
- 9. SENSORY GARDENS USERS • We anticipate a diversity of users ranging in age and developmental and intellectual abilities.
- 10. SENSORY GARDEN: Site Program Total Garden: 4,000 sq ft Raised Beds: 300 lin ft Planting Area: 2,500 sq ft Hardscape: 1,500 sq ft 1 Large Gathering Space 5 Sensory Rooms
- 11. Overall Plan Gathering Room
- 12. Overall Plan Taste Touch Gathering Room Sight Si ht Smell S ll Sound
- 15. Raised Planting Beds ADA Accessibility Guidelines
- 16. Planting Plan
- 17. Planting Plan
- 18. Irrigation Plan
- 19. Interpretive Signage (Year 1)
- 21. Braille Sign
- 22. Project Timeline • Year Two – Implementation (Phase 2) • Hardscape Walkways (not funded in ODDC grant) • Interpretive Signage • Interactive Programmatic Elements g • Shade Structures • Benches
- 23. Interpretive Signage (Year 2) • ADA Accessibility Guidelines • Accessible Raised Planting Beds • Horticultural Therapy
- 24. Project Timeline • Year Three – Workshop “Train the Trainer” – Factsheet • Looking Ahead – On-going Educational Programs
- 25. 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