Scripps Park expanding sensory garden experience
We have always been fond of this park, at the triangular corner of Trumbull, Grand River and Martin L. King Blvd, the gateway to Woodbridge.
This piece in HuffPost Detroit comes just in time for the planting season. An excerpt:
Last summer, a number of community groups working with the adjacent Detroit Public Library Douglass Branch planted a “sensory garden” in a small gravel bed they constructed at the park — a project they plan to expand this spring.
When the additions are completed, the garden will feature a variety of sense-evocative plants, including black-eyed Susans for color, lavender for its smell, whirling butterflies for their movement, lamb’s ears for their soft texture and nasturtiums for their taste.
Read on here.
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