Shelagh's Thrive with Nature Blog

Elevating Fragrant Flowers to Euphoric Heights

Elevating Fragrant Flowers to Euphoric Heights

Do you ever get down on your hands and knees to smell a flower? If you do, you're delightfully unusual (and limber!). To my delight, I chanced upon fragrant flowers at...

Elevating Fragrant Flowers to Euphoric Heights

Do you ever get down on your hands and knees to smell a flower? If you do, you're delightfully unusual (and limber!). To my delight, I chanced upon fragrant flowers at...

Take a Sensory Nature Break in an Australian Garden

Take a Sensory Nature Break in an Australian Ga...

If you’re immersed in winter weather, or just needing a nature break, take a moment to enjoy the sights and smells of a sunny Australian garden. Find out how visitors...

Take a Sensory Nature Break in an Australian Ga...

If you’re immersed in winter weather, or just needing a nature break, take a moment to enjoy the sights and smells of a sunny Australian garden. Find out how visitors...

56 Sensory Plants for Raised Planter Gardens

56 Sensory Plants for Raised Planter Gardens

Looking to engage your garden visitors with sensory plants? I've listed 56 of my favourites. These plants are specifically suited to raised planter gardens in Southwestern British Columbia, the Pacific...

56 Sensory Plants for Raised Planter Gardens

Looking to engage your garden visitors with sensory plants? I've listed 56 of my favourites. These plants are specifically suited to raised planter gardens in Southwestern British Columbia, the Pacific...

How to Choose Sensory Plants for Raised Planters (While Avoiding Costly Eye Candy)

How to Choose Sensory Plants for Raised Planter...

When shopping at a garden centre, it’s easy to be seduced and overwhelmed by delectable eye candy. So here are a few guidelines for wisely choosing sensory plant varieties for...

How to Choose Sensory Plants for Raised Planter...

When shopping at a garden centre, it’s easy to be seduced and overwhelmed by delectable eye candy. So here are a few guidelines for wisely choosing sensory plant varieties for...

10 Strategies for Encouraging Independent Garden Activities

10 Strategies for Encouraging Independent Garde...

Leverage your time with these strategies, so that more people engage with your garden and experience nature's benefits. Create opportunities, get the word out, and involve people in a variety...

10 Strategies for Encouraging Independent Garde...

Leverage your time with these strategies, so that more people engage with your garden and experience nature's benefits. Create opportunities, get the word out, and involve people in a variety...

10 Engaging Garden Signs (article)

10 Signs to Engage your Garden Visitors

Signage seems to be a fairly undeveloped strategy for encouraging engagement in therapeutic gardens and school gardens. My theory is that more garden engagement generally means more therapeutic benefit. This...

10 Signs to Engage your Garden Visitors

Signage seems to be a fairly undeveloped strategy for encouraging engagement in therapeutic gardens and school gardens. My theory is that more garden engagement generally means more therapeutic benefit. This...