Custom Design and Installation
A Sensory Garden System designed for your residents, staff, available space and needs.
Therapy Gardens
Sensory
Garden System
More than a garden.A modular community building system.
We create custom sensory gardens around the people, spaces and culture of each community. From the first conversation through design, installation and handoff, we help make the garden a natural, subscription-free part of everyday life.
See a real example at NewBridge on the CharlesDesigned
with people
in mind.
Every garden starts
with the community
We take time to understand your residents, staff, space and goals. Then we develop a plan that fits your environment and your community.
Staff Training and Handoff
We prepare staff to care for the garden and make it part of activities and everyday community life.
Optional Ongoing Engagement
Choose resident activities, seasonal programming, garden refreshes, staff guidance and related support.
Made to meet people where they are
A garden that comes to the resident.
Removable planting units can be lifted out, brought to a resident or table, cared for separately, watered, refreshed and returned to the garden.
What can happen
around the garden?
The garden gives you a place to start. What grows around it depends on your community.
Plant & Replant
Change plants with seasons, interests and resident participation.
Care & Tend
Water, prune, observe and participate in everyday plant care.
Touch & Explore
Experience fragrance, texture, color, shape and growth.
Harvest & Use
Pick herbs, flowers or other usable plants directly from the garden.
Propagate & Share
Take cuttings, start new plants and share what grows.
Designed to become yours
Our goal is a subscription-free addition to your community.
We design the garden, help introduce it to residents and staff, establish simple care routines, provide practical ideas and training, and prepare your community to carry it forward.
After training and handoff, your staff can lead garden activities independently and make the garden part of ordinary community life.
Start a conversation
What Could This Look Like in Your Community?
Every Therapy Gardens Sensory Garden begins differently. Tell us about your community, your space and what you’d like to create.
Featured Sensory Garden
NewBridge on the Charles
Explore the custom Sensory Garden System Therapy Gardens created for NewBridge on the Charles.
Created by Therapy Gardens for NewBridge on the Charles
Welcome to the Sensory Garden.
Follow along as we introduce the first plants at NewBridge on the Charles and bring this living community resource to life.
NewBridge on the Charles
About the Garden
A living garden, designed to be experienced.
The NewBridge Sensory Garden is a place of joy, discovery and purpose—a living garden designed to be experienced, not simply admired.
Together with staff and family, NewBridge residents can tend the plants, follow new growth, take cuttings, gather around the garden for activities, or simply enjoy being near something green and growing.
Leaves can be velvety, waxy, ridged, feathery or wonderfully strange. Colors shift from deep forest green to silver, pink and purple. Some plants trail over the edge, while others reward a closer look with patterns and details that are easy to miss.
The living collection
Meet the First Plants
Meet the first group of plants—with more to come. Tap a plant and look closer.
Therapy Gardens
Bring a Sensory Garden to Your Community
Interested in creating a custom sensory garden for your community?
For more information, please use our contact page.
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