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I am not maintaining this site any longer, so this is simply an archive of stories I have covered. The chances are that links will go out of date, so apologies if you come across one of these.
For more on blind gardening, please see Vince's Parallax: Blind Gardening
How I do my gardening - Donna Jodhan - Donna explains how she got the gardening bug, and how, now that she's blind, she grows a balcony garden.
West End of Washington blooms with pride as residents grow thriving gardens - Breaking News - www.observer-reporter.com - Fred and Sandy Greiss are legally blind, but their visual impairments have not stopped them from growing a thriving garden around their Canton Avenue home.... and it won an award.
Blind Living | Lifestyle and Leisure of the Blind and Visually Impaired - emphasis on leisure activities, gardening included. Written by staff members of the Iowa Department for the Blind. Blind Living RSS Feed
Living works of art created with an eye for gardening - West Yellowstone News Online - Bonnie Cross has macular degeneration at the age of 83, but sight loss hasn't stopped her making a great garden.
Boardwalk and gardens grace Ferndale park | Seattle Times - visitors are encouraged to touch, feel and smell the plants in the Fragrant Garden.
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Gardening as Therapy - Jenny Murray introduces an item on gardening as a treatment for depression. Not sure if this will work outside the UK.
Quest to find great gardeners | Stuff.co.nz - Graham Burtenshaw, last year's finalist in the NZ gardener of the year competition is legally blind, and has tended a garden that feeds his family.
Denver Botanic Gardens | walking tour - July in the sensory garden.
Living works of art created with an eye for gardening - Bonnie Cross has macular degeneration - and a great skill as a gardener.
Blindness can't hold Chad Rohr back - after a near-fatal accident at age 13, a summer gardening job was part of his path back to life.
Create a garden that stimulates all of your senses using water-wise plants
Design Ideas for Sensory Garden - Yard and Garden Secrets Yard and Garden Secrets RSS Feed
Sensory Garden Providing Museum Experience To The Visually Impaired 07/24/11- CBS 7 - Your Eye on West Texas - Ellen Noel Art Mmuseum is an outdoor oasis of art.
UK - Garden Therapy for Soldiers/Sensory Garden for the Deaf - Headley Court Rehabilitation Centre has launched a gardening project for ex soldiers as occupational therapy
Design Within Reach - Magazine - The Atlantic - a blind architect offers insights into the problems with buildings - and courtyards and gardens.
Centre for Scottish War Blinded by Page\Park - Dezeen � Blog Archive - facilities, including a sensory garden, reflect a more modern approach to rehabilitation of blind people.
Landscape Lighting: What Next After The Gardening�� | Home Garden Articles - you can use lighting to create an ambience and highlight special features of your garden.
Griego: Journalist discovering vision that transcends loss of sight - The Denver Post - when a journalist lost her sight, she treated it like anything else that she might describe objectively. Mor challenges were to come when she started the rehabilitation training, which included gardening and many other facets.
At Lighthouse of Broward, a garden stimulates the senses - Home & Garden - Miami Herald
A Sensory Garden - Better Homes & Gardens Magazine - making your own.
Mystery man donates �6k for dream garden | 2011 -YELLOW ADVERTISER TODAY - kind benefactor gives costs of sensory garden for Southend girl with rare health condition that causes blindness.
Yorkshire Lavender - The Yorkshire Lavender Farm, Terrington, York, YO60 6PB - free entry, gift shop, herb plants, sensory garden.
Garden built at care home - This is Leicestershire - The Kathleen Rutland Home for visually impaired people, some of whom also have dementia, now has a sensory garden with a safe environment.
Lions Club creates sensory garden (with video) - thenewsherald.com - LINCOLN PARK - MICentral Network - a garden has been created to give blind people an experience of nature.
Inspiration Garden Open House - CRS Articles - Christian Record Services serve people with a visual impairment and have a sensory garden. They held a celebration on 23rd June (sorry I missed that one). They are based in Lincoln, Nebraska, but are international.
Blind Gardening. Birthday Gratitude. - Cruisin' with Cricket - the author gives some hints about surviving in the garden when you're losing your sight. Cruisin' with Cricket Atom feed
New Sensory Garden in Low Moor Park - Bradford Metropolitan District Council | Tourism and Leisure - olunteers from "Growing Together", the Morley Street Gardening Club for visually impaired people, will be planting a wide range of interesting and scented plants into the garden on Wednesday, 29 June, between 1.30pm and 3.30pm.
Gardening for the senses - Inside Bay Area - a wealth of ideas about creating sensory gardens.
A sense of inspiration - Morpeth Herald - Bloomers Gardening Club from Northumberland County Blind Association visited the Turner Garden in Carlisle Park to get ideas about improving their own patch.
Cultivating a better life. - CHOICE Humanitarian Mexico Field Operations - blind couple achieve their dream of running a plant and animal nursery.
The nurture of nature | Mature Times - useful introduction to several UK organisations that help people with disabilities and health conditions carry on gardening.
Weeding the flower beds - Gardening - Blind Living - one of a number of articles on the site for blind gardeners.
Living with Vision Loss: Getting back into Gardening - Don't let vision loss stop that green thumb!
Tips for the Blind Gardener - a reprint of a 2003 article from NFB Idaho.
[Video] WW2 Blind Piano Tuner Gardens for Victory - sorry, I was a bit slow catching up with this one!
MSDB students dig gardening | Great Falls Tribune - children at Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind get gardening help from experts.
Geno Carter's Fundraising Page - asking for donations for the Carrol Center for the Blind a few miles west of Boston, Mass., where activities include gardening and much more.
Sensory Gardens 1 - Sight & Sound* | KORA Organics Blog - there are more senses than the traditional 5. You may also like to read the other episodes,
2. Taste and Texture
3. Fragrance
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St Mary Magdalen's Nature Blog - including commentary on a sensory garden.
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Landscape Plan: Sensory Garden : Outdoors : Home & Garden Television - plant recommendations for U.S. regions are provided.
Seeing with Other Senses: Gardens for the Blind - gardening doesn't have to stop at sniffing a few herbs from someone else's garden!
Plant List: Sensory Garden � A Blog & A Half - plants native to North America.
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May 14th Is World Naked Gardening Day - just thought you ought to know. Sorry if I'm late!
[Video] Blind gardener makes compost compromise - a lot of fuss about an ordinary compost heap?
Latchetts Gardens Charity Open Day 2011 - Weds 1st June, hosted by St Dunstaner, Laurence Hardy and his wife, Rebecca, in West Sussex, England.
Living with Vision Loss: Getting back into Gardening - From the Iowa Department for the Blind.
Gwen's Things Unseen: Gardening Season is here! - GwenB is President, Michigan Parents of Children with Visual Impairments, mom of 17-year-old son who is blind.
From the same blog,
Gardening with Blind Children - Weeding!
Gwen's Things Unseen RSS Feed
Taking out the plants - Gardening | Blind Living Blog
Blind Living RSS Feed
Blind Seniors Garden Too - Pat Munson is involved in producing a book for seniors losing their sight. Here she explains her involvement in gardening.
Visually impaired take time to smell and feel the flowers - Philly.com - people are amazed that visually impaired people can enjoy the garden so much, let alone maintain it.
Blind gardener in business - Harker Heights resident Joe Hudson is legally blind, and has started selling vegetables grown at home.
Contributor Kate Chamberlin - The Skateboard Gardener - Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind - the benefits of gardening, and avoiding some potential hazards.
� Hiller oversees acclaimed garden nurtured by the blind � Chestnut Hill Local Philadelphia PA - Hands-on Gardeners have nurtured a garden with a satisfying array of scents and colors. They are blind clients, staff and volunteers.
Gardening Tips If You are Blind or Have Low Vision | VisionAWARE
Thrive open gardens April 30 - Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 2AT
Concordia UK Project needs volunteers this summer to bring to life a school sensory garden in Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Add a sensory garden to your landscape to stimulate all five senses - planning and starting a sensory garden.
Sensory Garden - Essential Oils in the Garden | toppageinfoblog.info - growing aromatic plants.
Sensory garden opens in Guernsey's Delancey park - BBC Guernsey
Gardening Against the Odds: Courage and inspiration - Telegraph - the winners of these awards included the Growing Together group of blind and visually impaired gardeners in Bingley, West Yorkshire.
A real valentine celebrates 100th - San Bernardino County Sun - Venna Poulsen is legally blind, but still cooks, cleans and gardens at the age of 100.
Blind Sensing a Bloomsbury Garden � Patiopatch - St George's Garden, not far from the RNIB headquarters in Judd Street, holds an impressive array of sensory experiences.
Community Gardening for Older People - gardening could ease the isolation of older people.
Designing The Sensory Garden - HubPages
Garden vision - Gardening Ideas | Garden Design | Gardening Tips: - 84-year-old blind handyman and gardener Ted Howard of Wenatchee tackles just about anything in the garden, including planning simple Japanese designs.
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Hiller oversees acclaimed garden nurtured by the blind | chestnuthilllocal.com
NEW SENSORY GARDEN AT DOGS TRUST GLASGOW - to give rescue dogs mental challenges!
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