Listen & Explore
We learn about your community, your space and what you hope to create.
Therapy Gardens
The 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 NewBridgeDesigned
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.
Design & Plan
We develop a custom design, plant plan and practical ways the garden can work for your community.
A Garden for Your People
The finished garden reflects your space, residents and goals.
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 part of 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.
The garden becomes part of ordinary community life rather than another outside program that must continually be purchased.
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
Created by Therapy Gardens for NewBridge on the Charles
Welcome to the Sensory Garden.
Follow along as we introduce its first plants and bring this living community resource to life.
Welcome to our 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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