Taylor Clem: Sensory gardens offer more than meets the eye
We commonly comment that gardens and landscapes are beautiful. These comments typically relate to the visual structure of the design. The mixture of colors, textures, forms and order created throughout a design are integral components to the design but are only a limited facet of an overall design. Think about a garden you visited in your life — what do you remember? Is it just the visual aspects of the garden or do you begin to recall the smells and sounds or even the sensations of plants on your skin or taste of plants? Proper gardens should evoke all our senses and should not rely on th...