A place that’s ‘meant to be exuberant’

Sensory Garden opens at Elizabethan Gardens

By Kip Tabb | Outer Banks Voice

Designed as a place where people with special needs can experience the scent, feel and beauty of plants, the Elizabethan Gardens Sensory Garden officially opened on Aug. 18.

In remarks at the opening of the Garden, Brendan Medlin, Executive Director of the Elizabethan Gardens, described it as a place that “was created to spark and create curiosity and awaken the senses, to nurture and deepen the connection to gardening, nature and our environment.”

Speaking to Elizabethan Gardens board members, representatives of nonprofits that helped fund the project and organizations that serve populations that will benefit from the opportunity, Medlin said the Sensory Garden, “stands

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