Seattle Sensory Garden

Creating a garden for people of all abilities

Project Description

The Seattle Sensory Garden (next to the Woodland Park Zoo) is designed for people of all ages and abilities to experience nature through their senses in therapeutic and life enhancing ways, offering the opportunity to learn how people with different abilities experience the world. Donations will support Phase 2 of the project: completion of the Meadow Garden sensory features (tactile log wall, rainmaker, log keyholes) and plantings, development of the Woodland Garden (sensory plantings, resting places, tactile elements and movement features) and maintenance of the garden. The Friends of the Seattle Sensory Garden seeks new members to increase the diversity of viewpoints at the table.

An inclusive garden designed for all ages and abilities to experience nature through their senses [artist's rendering-Jim Collins]
Entrance terrace and trellis [Fischer-Bouma Partnership]
Artist's rendering of the movement mound, chimes in Cathedral of Melodies, mature plantings to stimulate all of the senses [Jim Collins]
Garden panorama [Fischer-Bouma Partnership]
Restorative place for respite and reflection [Land Morphology]
Site plan for the Seattle Sensory Gardne [Fisher-Bouma Partnership & Land Morphology]

The original concept video for the Seattle Sensory Garden. An early demonstration garden gave visitors a sense of what was to come.