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Sensory Garden

Rutgers Master of Hunterdon County • Where: Rutgers Cooperative Extension Hunterdon County Complex, present: 314 Route 12, Building #2, Flemington, NJ 08822 Relax... • When: June through September (on-site visits) and October through December Sensory Garden and Enjoy (off-site visits) by appointment only Encounter a unique type of experience Our Garden • Group size: 3-7 people • Estimated Time: 1 ½ hours to 2 hours Take a few relaxing • Fee: Nominal fee for 'Make and Take' activities moments to enjoy the

beauty and fragrance of our If your organization would be interested in participating in this type of gardening accessible experience contact

. You’ll be able to Rebecca Magron at 908-788-1338 or [email protected] see, feel, hear and smell the

beauty of nature as you Rutgers Master Gardeners of Hunterdon County explore the garden area and

learn about our special The Sensory Garden was established in support of the 'Rotary and Rutgers Enabling Gardens' initiative to provide audiences of selections. diverse backgrounds, capabilities and interests with a gardening experience.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension is an equal opportunity program provider and employer. Contact your local Extension Office for information regarding special needs or accommodations. Contact Come Join Us! the State Extension Director's Office if you have concerns related to discrimination, 848-932-3584. The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Hunterdon Cooperating Agencies: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S. Department of , and County Boards of Chosen County look forward to sharing their passion and Freeholders. Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of Rutgers New knowledge of gardening with the people we serve Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, is an equal opportunity through this Sensory Garden opportunity. program provider and employer. SENSORY GARDEN V5 PRINT.qxp_Foodpant2010 1/31/19 2:45 PM Page 2

Learn Through Our Garden Take Something Home Bring home a memory of your garden Programs experience by participating in a ‘make Choose from a variety of programs that are and take’ activity. One activity can be available to supplement your garden visit. selected with each visit. A nominal fee One program can be selected with each Game Day! Language of is charged for these activities. visit. 5 Have fun 7 Flowers learning about If flowers Tussie Mussie a variety of garden 1 could talk, what Beautiful nosegay of garden flowers topics through a would they say? Find annotated with the language of flowers melange of interactive out more about the games, including symbolism and senti - 2 Potpourri Buggo , Guess the Scent , ments behind the Sachet of dried, naturally fragrant Cool and Good and more! Participants flowers you love. Have plant materials to provide a gentle 1 Kooky 3 Smelling will be delighted to go fun solving the mes - natural scent Explore the Plants home with small sage sent in an old world of unusual Do you love the smell prizes. Victorian bouquet. 3 Decorated Pots plants by getting up of extracts, spices, Create a beautiful customized pot close and personal herbs, and fruit in and bring home a potted plant with plants that have your kitchen? Learn Pressed Flower Creation interesting stories to more about the plants 4 Use pressed flowers to decorate tell. See baby 'spiders,' that are behind the unravel the mystery of smells that you love. personalized greeting cards meat eating plants, Nature’s Butterfly Miniature Gardens discover 'air' plants 5 6 Garden 8 Miracle Create a whimsical fairy garden or and MORE! Helpers See the devel - enclosed terrarium to take home for Did you know that opment of a monarch low maintenance enjoyment spiders and dead butterfly and learn leaves are our friends more about how but - 6 Flower Arranging Snip & Grow in the garden? Learn terflies help our gardens. Arrangement of flowers using 4 Find out ways more about the many selections from the Sensory Gardens to grow new plants, animals and plants you can have insects that help us 7 Zen Dish Gardens Experiencing for yourself or share have garden success. Relax and refresh by creating a small 2 Herbs with your friends. Find out which low-maintenance Zen dish garden. Collect some You’ll learn easy ways ‘friends’ we have in Continue to enjoy its restorative herbs from our garden to propagate plants our own sensory Fun and effects at home. and learn more about and will be able to garden. Fancy Fruits the history, characteris - take a potted cutting 9 8 Decorated Pumpkins Learn more Pumpkin discussion followed by tics, and uses of herbs. home so you can see about the fruits you pumpkin decorating; available Get ready for a great it grow. love to eat. See how sensory experience as they grow, explore fun in October you touch and smell a facts, and play games Evergreen Arrangements variety of herbs to dis - 9 to discover more Conifer discussion followed by cover what you like about the ‘stories best. evergreen arrangement; available in behind the fruit.’ November and December