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Buehler Enabling Garden
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The new Buehler Enabling Garden encourages gardening for people
of all ages and abilities. This beautiful 11,000-square-foot garden
demonstrates the latest strategies, including raised beds, vertical
gardens and hanging baskets, for easy lifelong gardening. Many
of these same ideas can be adapted in home gardens to create enabling
gardens for a lifetime of easy, enjoyable gardening. The Buehler
Enabling Garden is a garden serving people of all abilities and
a major learning center for horticultural therapy programs.
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Unique Garden Features
Raised Beds
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Raised garden beds show that by elevating the soil level, gardeners
can care for a garden more easily with very little bending, stooping
or reaching.
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Hanging Baskets
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Baskets in this garden can be lowered to a gardener's working
height, then raised for display.
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Vertical Wall Gardens
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These special wood frames within easy reach on garden walls make
a striking display when filled with colorful annuals or vegetables. |
Shallow Pans
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Shallow beds built above the ground allow legroom for gardeners
who sit while tending plants. |
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Water Features
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Raised water gardens bring plants within easy reach. For sensory
enjoyment, the garden also has several fountains and uniquely
designed water walls, which create 5-foot-wide sheets of water.
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Paving for Accessibility
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A level grade, firm surface, good drainage and color contrasts
for visual discrimination contribute to improved mobility in the
garden. |
Tactile Beds
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Plants of many textures are featured. A metal grid running across
this garden bed provides a planting guide for people who garden
by touch. |
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Sensational Plants
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The 3,100 plants in the Enabling Garden were chosen largely for
their beauty and appeal to multiple senses. Discover plants with
bright colors, pleasant fragrances and interesting textures. |
Scenic Overlook
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An elegant gallery garden provides a spectacular view across the
lagoon. |
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Discovery Carts
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Visitors are encouraged to use all their senses to experience
plants and to sample tools that ease the practice of gardening.
Trained volunteers can answer questions. |
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Tool Shed
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The Tool Shed information center offers resources and tools that
help you try easy-does-it gardening techniques at home.
It is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from May to October. |
Enabling Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden
Horticultural Therapy Services at the Chicago Botanic Garden is
generously supported by an endowment created by the Buehler Family
Foundation and a grant from the Grant Healthcare Foundation. Additional
support is provided by The Retirement Research Foundation, Dellora
A. and Lester J. Norris Foundation, Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation,
Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust, Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Babson, Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust and Winnetka Garden Club.
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