General care and safety are the most important aspects of my garden life. In saying this, what is uppermost in my mind concerning safety isn’t always the same thing as what is uppermost in other people’s minds. Other people are thinking about what things would be like if they suddenly couldn’t see. I am thinking […]
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Gardening with Chronic Illness and Disability, Part 4: Choosing and Arranging the Plants
There are a million different ways to design the garden. Most importantly, what do you want to grow? This can be a hard question for a person who has never had much experience with plants. It was good, in that respect, that my mom simply brought me some easy starters to help build my interest. […]
Gardening with Chronic Illness and Disability, Part 3: Navigating in My Garden
Most sites I have read that discuss designing gardens for blind people encourage designers to install rails and all kinds of tactile pathways. The writing comes across as if the designers are sighted and the blind people are going to walk around smelling the air and won’t be doing much actual gardening. If you really […]
Gardening with Disability and Chronic Illness, Part 2: Planning the Garden
Planning Garden Layout The first thing that goes into planning my layout is to think about the space I have and where I want to b when I am enjoying my plants. Every space where I have lived already has plants in it, and most often I don’t go on a tour and find out […]
Gardening with Disability and Chronic Illness, Part 1: Introduction
In 2010, my mom bought me some flowers for my balcony, hoping that caring for them might help me to confront a bout of severe depression. I had no experience with gardening and, honestly, little interest in trying this project. But I couldn’t let good flowers die, and they were so pretty! So began the […]