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Disabled and Special Needs

UK garden links for disabled gardeners and those with special needs. Garden links for garden suppliers, tips for gardening with a disability, ergonomic tools, gardens for people with special needs, books about gardening with a disability, sensory gardens and gardening as therapy
Garden of the Senses

BOOK:  Garden of the Senses

BOOK:  Accessible Gardening:  Tips and Techniques for Seniors and the Disabled

BOOK:  Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools and Plants

 Secret Gardens
VIDEO:  Secret Gardens

Greenfingers
Greenfingers
Crocus.co.uk Crocus

Thrive
National charity promoting gardening and horticultural activity for training, therapy and health

Carry On Gardening
"The easier gardening website" with information on tools and techniques suitable for everyone, including older people and those with limited time, space or mobility

The Sensory Garden Project, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
An inspiring virtual tour of a garden designed to be positive about disabled people

Sensory Trust
Organisation promoting accessible green spaces.  Their booklet "A Guide to Accessible Greenspace" helps designers make their sites accessible to more people

Growing Matters, Morecambe, Lancashire
Non-profit-making horticultural therapy project providing voluntary work for people with mental health problems

Growability, Northumberland
Three nurseries in Northumberland providing training and experience in horticulture for adults with disabilities

Get Digging
Sales of the "Azada" range of alternative garden tools

 

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