Patrons: Lord Aberdeen and Jim McColl, MBE Supported by The Scottish Government, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Gannochy Trust, The BIG Lottery
Registered in Scotland as The Scottish Therapeutic Gardening Network – Company no: 299227 SC no: 037429
40 St John St,...
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Patrons: Lord Aberdeen and Jim McColl, MBE Supported by The Scottish Government, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Gannochy Trust, The BIG Lottery
Registered in Scotland as The Scottish Therapeutic Gardening Network – Company no: 299227 SC no: 037429
40 St John St, PERTH, PH5 1PS – Tel: 01738 624348 / M: 07770 724399 / E: info@trellisscotland.
org.
uk / www.
trellisscotland.
org.
uk
Briefing: Adaptive Gardening
or how to work your plot, not your back.
Like couture tailoring adaptive gardening is concerned with ensuring a garden, the design of
activities, methods, and tools that will be used there, as well as its physical design, is a good fit
for the people who will work in it or visit.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ – an individually tailored
approach is required.
The only generally applicable rule is always to consult with the people
who are going to use the garden.
In the past, much of the advice given out by experts was based on ‘traditional methods’ such
as double digging and even the d
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