The true meaning of a sensory garden!

The show gardens at Volmary in Germany sure do stimulate the senses, in every single way! Just to prove that, I have selected 3 plants that tickled each of my 5 senses; smell, touch, taste, hear and sight: SMELL TOUCH TASTE HEAR SIGHT

Mr Plant Geek

August 14, 2016

1–2 minutes

flowers, foliage plants, fragrance, grow your own, herbs, plant hunting, sensory

SMELL

Black Basil- giant and pungent, with that typical clove-like punch!

Lemon Verbena is my favourite fragrance, it’s rich and bloody sexy as hell!

Unbeknown to many, Bidens actually possess a tempting honey-esque fragrance!

TOUCH

The Obedient Plant (Physostegia) has small florets that can be moved to exactly where you want them to be!

Alchemilla mollis has soft, felted leaves- and i just love how the raindrops stick to it!

TASTE

I HATE tomatoes, but I LOVE these super sweet orange ones, they’re like garden sweeties!

Spilanthes is a little devil of a flower- it actually numbs the inside of your mouth.. great for toothaches!

HEAR

Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ is my favourite grass- with it’s stained glass looks, and nice rustling sounds!

Sunflowers were huge in the trial garden, and creaked entertainingly in the wind!

The crunch of a cucumber cannot be beaten- and these slices were heart-shaped, created using a special mould!

SIGHT

Wowsers! Coleus ‘Combat’ is pure psychedelia overload! Makes a fabulous patio plant, and even gives out of character blue flowers too!

Flamboyant Dahlias were the flower de jour, and this one was especially divine- with red and white pompom heads!

One response to “The true meaning of a sensory garden!”

Girlontor

August 14, 2016 at 8:44 pm

That Coleus ‘combat’ camouflage is pure AbFab! Edina would love it!

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Mr Plant Geek

Michael has been involved with gardening and plants since he was just five years old. He is a self-professed Plant Geek, and was listed in the Sunday Times top 20 most influential people in the gardening world, thanks to his plant hunter role at Thompson & Morgan. Michael was responsible for new plant introductions such as the Egg and Chips plant and the FuchsiaBerry and keeps busy travelling the world in search of new plants as well as lecturing worldwide, including stints in Japan. He is very active on social media – so why not give him a follow at @mr_plantgeek or Facebook – and writes a plant-focused Substack called Grow This, Not That.