A disability charity has won Gold at the BBC’s Gardeners Wold Live event for their new sensory garden based in Surbiton.
See Ability, formerly the Royal School for the Blind, give specialist support for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss.
Their new Sensory Garden on Ditton Road in Surbiton, called the ‘See You, See Me’ Border Garden, was designed by SeeAbility Trustee Deborah Hale MBE, and scooped multiple awards from gardening experts recently.
See You, See Me, which won Gold at BBC Gardener’s World Live, also won ‘Best Interpretation of a Theme 2021’ at the show held in the NEC Birmingham last week.
The beautiful garden explores different ways of seeing. The concept behind the winning garden was designed to “challenge the notion that we only see with our eyes”.
Four wooden pillars stand within the garden with the words ‘Live’, ‘Love’, ‘Thrive’, ‘Belong’, SeeAbility’s strapline to the people it supports, literally carved into the wood.
“The planting is designed to challenge our sense of touch and…
