"Use the site and make it the first place that you and others look at before a garden visit."
"accessiblegardens.org.uk will allow actual garden visitors to report their own experiences of the thrills and spills of their own visit, thus allowing a realistic evaluation to be expressed by a person who has been round the garden themselves. I think it is fantastic that Bella, who has disabilities herself, is offering a website dedicated to the realities of garden visiting for people with disabilities."
Christine Walkden - (Read full interview with Christine Walkden)
What's New
Accessibility Events at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London
- Accessibility workshop for garden owners: 29th May 2012
- Audio-described tours for blind and partially sighted people: May 20th 2012
Introducing Accessible Gardens
This website provides articles on the accessibility to gardens for children, disadvantaged families and disabled people. It has a Directory of gardens in England and Wales written by disabled people for disabled people, also useful for those with pushchairs. Find out more...
Directory
Our directory provides a map and an A to Z index of the gardens reviewed by Accessible Gardens.
Gardens Reviews
The Accessible Gardens reviews are classified by county - found either from the map or from the index.
Further Resources
Articles as well as other resources: links, books and more...
Submit a Review
We need YOU to help us increase our Directory entries... You will see that we currently have 17 counties and not all the gardens are in these counties, so please SUBMIT YOUR GARDEN REVIEWS!
About Us
accessiblegardens is a voluntary and free-to-download website, funded and edited by Bella D'Arcy Reed, a community garden designer and writer who is herself disabled. She also works as an accessibility consultant for gardens. Bella uses a stick and sometimes a wheelchair or mobility scooter.
You can contact Bella D'Arcy Reed by email.
