Visitors stimulate their senses of sight, smell, touch, and taste in the Sensory Garden as they enjoy the plantings of aromatic herbs, tasty fruits, and soft-textured foliage.  Raised beds edged with stone provide ample seating space for fragrant garden picnics, especially on Davis Farmers Market days.

Gardeners interested in edible landscaping will find inspiration here.  Dwarf fruit trees are pruned to demonstrate how to maintain a compact “fruit shrub” form that works well in a small home garden.  Strawberries, rhubarb, artichokes, asparagus, and a variety of culinary herbs have all been incorporated into the attractive plantings.

Sensory Garden - new plantings
Each seatbed contains aromatic herbs, and plants that engage the senses. Planted in the center of each bed is  a different dwarf fruit tree.	Farmers' Market attendees enjoy the seating provided by the seatwalls.
Sensory Garden Before
A view of the garden from the patio in Central Park.  The sculpture and a long evergreen hedge that sheltered the garden from the street were the main defining features of the space.	Square beds surrounding the sculpture were barely visible due to the lack of plantings.