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The Enabling Garden
by Gene Rothert

Gardening has been proven to be therapeutic, partially accounting for its status as America's #1 leisure-time activity. THE ENABLING GARDEN (Taylor Publishing; 1994; $12.95) goes a step further by showing how the disabled and the elderly can create their own user-friendly gardens. The focus is on establishing an environment that enables anyone to enjoy gardening: it is chock-full of ideas and information about helpful gadgets, modified techniques, and tips to make garden maintenance more manageable. Among its innovative ideas are:

• constructing vertical wall gardens and raised beds for easy wheelchair access
• having hanging baskets on pulleys and line that can be easily raised and lowered to water, trim, etc.
• creating rest areas within the garden
• putting contrasting plants next to each other to aid the visually impaired see ripening vegetables
• selecting plants with fragrance and interesting textures
• having edge guides in the garden to mark paths

Utilizing more than 50 simple diagrams and line art for constructing raised beds and other helpful garden structures, THE ENABLING GARDEN also includes informative and interesting sidebars with handy tips and personal garden experiences from other disable or elderly gardeners.

ISBN 0-87833-847-0