RNIB have collaborated with garden designers Natasha Lloyd and Emma-Jane Blair to create Seeing Through The Senses, a specially designed multi-sensory long border at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park which is on from Wednesday 19 July to Sunday 23 July 2023.

Visitors to the RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park will be able to use their smartphones to click on QR codes which will take them through the concept of the garden and its planting. There will also be the opportunity for visitors to find out what gardening and life might be like for someone living with sight loss as well as how to make gardens  more accessible for blind and partially sighted people too.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Anna Tylor, RNIB Chair of Trustees and a keen visually impaired gardener herself and Natasha Lloyd, one of the Garden Designers who worked on Seeing Through The Senses, to talk about gardening for blind and partially sighted people and how Natasha and Emma-Jane worked with the RNIB on Seeing through The Senses.

Anna and Natasha also gave their top tips on gardening and making your garden accessible for blind and partially sighted people and what they would like visitors to the RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park to come away with after visiting and experiencing the multi-sensory long border Seeing Through The Senses. 

There is more about the RHS Flower Show, Tatton park on the RHS website — https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-flower-show-tatton-park

And for more about making gardens accessible for blind and partially sighted people do visit the RNIB website-

https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/community-connection-and-wellbeing/leisure/gardening/

Image: Anna Tylor, RNIB Chair of Trustees, at Tatton Park facing the camera with her hands out touching some flowers and smiling