The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design
Children’s gardens are magical places where kids can interact with plants, see where food and fibers grow, and experience the role of birds, butterflies, and bees in nature. These gardens do more than just expose youngsters to outdoor environments, they also provide marvelous teaching opportunities for them to visit a small plot, care for vegetables and flowers, and interact in creative spaces designed to stimulate all five senses. 

In The Magic of Children’s Gardens, landscape architect Lolly Tai provides the primary goals, concepts and key considerations for designing outdoor spaces that are attractive to and suitable for children especially in urban environments. Tai presents inspiring ideas for creating children’s green spaces by examining nearly twentycase studies, including the Chicago Botanic Gardens and  Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.

Exposing youth to well-planned outdoor environments promotes our next generation of environmental stewards. The Magic of Children's Gardens offers practitioners a guide to designing these valued spaces.

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The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design
Children’s gardens are magical places where kids can interact with plants, see where food and fibers grow, and experience the role of birds, butterflies, and bees in nature. These gardens do more than just expose youngsters to outdoor environments, they also provide marvelous teaching opportunities for them to visit a small plot, care for vegetables and flowers, and interact in creative spaces designed to stimulate all five senses. 

In The Magic of Children’s Gardens, landscape architect Lolly Tai provides the primary goals, concepts and key considerations for designing outdoor spaces that are attractive to and suitable for children especially in urban environments. Tai presents inspiring ideas for creating children’s green spaces by examining nearly twentycase studies, including the Chicago Botanic Gardens and  Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.

Exposing youth to well-planned outdoor environments promotes our next generation of environmental stewards. The Magic of Children's Gardens offers practitioners a guide to designing these valued spaces.

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The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design

The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design

by Lolly Tai
The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design

The Magic of Children's Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design

by Lolly Tai

Overview

Children’s gardens are magical places where kids can interact with plants, see where food and fibers grow, and experience the role of birds, butterflies, and bees in nature. These gardens do more than just expose youngsters to outdoor environments, they also provide marvelous teaching opportunities for them to visit a small plot, care for vegetables and flowers, and interact in creative spaces designed to stimulate all five senses. 

In The Magic of Children’s Gardens, landscape architect Lolly Tai provides the primary goals, concepts and key considerations for designing outdoor spaces that are attractive to and suitable for children especially in urban environments. Tai presents inspiring ideas for creating children’s green spaces by examining nearly twentycase studies, including the Chicago Botanic Gardens and  Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

The Magic of Children’s Gardens features hundreds of comprehensive drawings and gorgeous photographs of successful children’s outdoor environments, detailed explanations of the design process, and the criteria needed to create attractive and pleasing gardens for children to augment their physical, mental, and emotional development.

Exposing youth to well-planned outdoor environments promotes our next generation of environmental stewards. The Magic of Children's Gardens offers practitioners a guide to designing these valued spaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439914472
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2017
Edition description: 1
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lolly Tai is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Temple University, and co-author of award-winning book, Designing Outdoor Environments for Children.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Children's Garden 3

2 Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Discovery Garden 9

3 Paul Smith Children's Village at Cheyenne Botanic Gardens 21

4 Chicago Botanic Garden's Regenstein Learning Campus 33

Grunsfeld Children's Growing Garden 35

Kleinman Family Cove 43

Nature Play Garden 51

5 Children's Garden at Hershey Gardens 61

6 Helen and Peter Bing Children's Garden at the Huntington Botanical Gardens 77

7 Ithaca Children's Garden 99

8 Luci and Ian Family Garden at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 109

9 Longwood Gardens' Indoor Children's Garden 125

10 Michigan 4-H Children's Garden at Michigan State University 151

11 Morton Arboretum Children's Garden 167

12 Vicky C. and David Byron Smith Children's Garden at Naples Botanical Garden 189

13 Everett Children's Adventure Garden at the New York Botanical Garden 209

14 Childhood's Gate Children's Garden in the Arboretum at Pennsylvania State University 229

15 Children's Garden at River Farm 243

16 Ann Goldstein Children's Rainforest Garden at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 253

17 United States Botanic Garden Children's Garden 271

18 Children's Discovery Garden at Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark 283

19 Enchanted Woods at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library 293

Conclusion 321

References 325

Resources 333

Illustration Credits 345

Index 349

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