Landmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds

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