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Back to EpisodesLandmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds
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A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here.
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Gardening for the Blind
Christine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Keller Centre, which serves the deaf-blind community.
They talk about:
- Using landmarks in the garden
- Colours for low-vision gardeners
- Spatial awareness in the garden
- Visual memory
Bird Gardening
Steven Price, past president of Bird Studies Canada, talks about how to attract birds to gardens and how to make gardens bird-friendly.
He talks about:
- Plants
- Features (e.g. water features)
- Feed
A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here.