Garden for the Senses: How Your Garden Can Soothe Your Mind and Awaken Your Soul

Step outdoors and let your outside space nourish all of your senses and settle a busy mind. Discover how to garden to enliven all five senses - touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste - to build a connection with the world around you and bring joy and wonder into the everyday. Find out how simply being outside, whatever the weather, can help ground and calm you, and learn what plants to grow to nourish both your mental and physical well-being. Feel more alive as you tune into your senses and make your outdoor space with these in mind. Ideas on planting and maintaining your garden, which you can put into practice quickly and easily, show how you can improve the sensory enjoyment of your outside space - no matter where you live and no matter what size your plot is. Each sense is explored in detail with practical advice on how to tailor your environment to enhance your potential sensory experience. Whether you want to fill a space with an uplifting fragrance, create a calming color scheme, grow richly aromatic herbs, or select trees and shrubs for their soothing sounds, you can turn your plot into a sensory delight and an innovative way to connect to the wild and natural world around you.