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Garden of Six Senses | China Flower Expo 2021 Read text
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The Garden of Six Senses has been designed for the Shanghai Gardens Group (SGG) to exhibit at the 10th China Flower Expo 2021.  It is a journey through the five senses to reach a sixth sense of wellbeing.  A circular walkway guides the visitor through the 1,000 square metre plot via five gardens that explore the senses individually, culminating in a Sixth Sense Garden of Wellbeing at the centre. An alternative concept explores different routes radiating from the five individual sensory gardens to the central wellbeing garden.

Each garden focuses on one of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, and includes an educational element that informs the garden explorer, and a wellbeing feature that nurtures them. For example, the Taste Garden’s educational aspect shows the association of smell and taste and how food attracts wildlife, and its wellbeing area contains a cafe selling produce from the garden.

The Sound Garden features well-being enhancing sounds of water and bird song, and bird attracting berry-rich planting. In the Touch Garden misting and shade create a beneficial sensory contrast with the heat of Shanghai’s sub-tropical climate, with sand providing the sensation of a beach underfoot.

 

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