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Landmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds
Season 5 · Episode 1

Landmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds

Gardening for the BlindChristine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Keller Centre, which serves the deaf-blind community. They talk about:* Using landmarks i

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January 6, 20221h 3m

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Show Notes

Gardening for the Blind

Christine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Keller Centre, which serves the deaf-blind community. 


They talk about:

  • Using landmarks in the garden
  • Colours for low-vision gardeners
  • Spatial awareness in the garden
  • Visual memory


Bird Gardening

Steven Price, past president of Bird Studies Canada, talks about how to attract birds to gardens and how to make gardens bird-friendly.


He talks about:

  • Plants
  • Features (e.g. water features)
  • Feed



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