The Disabled Gardener

Gardening with Accessibility in Mind

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Creating an accessible garden involves thoughtful planning and design to ensure that people of all abilities can enjoy and participate in gardening activities. You can create a welcoming and inclusive space for people of all abilities to enjoy the benefits of gardening.

Gardening, like being independent, is a skill that develops over time. It’s perfectly normal to encounter challenges, but each experience contributes to your knowledge and confidence. Start with the basics, be patient, and enjoy the process of nurturing your plants and yourself.

The Disabled Gardener partners with the local community and like minded groups / individuals like yourselves!

Our goal for the community is to encourage and facilitate gardening activities that are designed with accessibility in mind. This involves creating accessible garden spaces, pathways, and/or planting areas that accommodate individuals with various disabilities.

We empower individuals with disabilities to actively participate in gardening by providing the necessary resources, knowledge, and support.

By focusing on these goals, our aim is to make gardening a more inclusive and accessible activity for people with disabilities, promoting both physical and mental well-being within this community.

Accessibility Symbols

Throughout the site and blog we will use the following symbols to indicate what kind physical disability it is accessible to and other limitations.

Wheelchair Friendly
Walker Friendly

 We are dedicated to have up to date information for all your butterfly needs. 

A butterfly garden is one of the best therapy gardens to do. It promotes not only physical activity but social skills and education. It allows a family/community to come together to learn and promote natures beauty and ecology.

Where to start?

Don’t just focus on one type of butterfly, make sure your garden has plants for a variety of butterflies. Its a lot more colorful and supports all butterflies!

  • Create a butterfly waystation with native nectar plants.
  • Once you have an adequate butterfly rest stop learn more about their host plants and grow responsibly.

Try not to captive rear butterflies unless for educational purposes.

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  • Check out our personal garden
  • See local butterflies 
  • Indoor Gardening Ideas
  • Theme gardens
    • Herb garden
    • Tea garden
    • Carnivorous Garden
    • Jewelry garden
    • Types of vegetable gardening
    • etc
  • Spill the Tea (Blog)
    • Tea Recipe from the garden while talking about SSI or Disability topics.