Landscape Gardening for Playgrounds

Interactive Playgrounds for Children

Play is an important factor in the life of children. It plays a role in their cognitive, social, and physical development, and provides entertaining and fulfilling activities in itself. As with any field of human endeavor, interactive technology has a huge potential for transforming and enhancing play activities. In this chapter, we look at interactive playgrounds, goals and considerations in t...

Playgrounds for the Digital Age:

New Playgrounds

Centre Trust, 13 Suffolk Street, London, S.W.I, 7 s. 6d.) If I were a boy in an adventure playground, I'd have a whale of a time. I cou' construct all sorts of contraptions out of corrugated iron, planks and old furnituf'^ Boys adore making "look-outs", as well as freedom and dirt, and it obviously do1 them the world of good. They learn to construct rather than to destroy, and 1 co-operate in s...

Gardening for Insects - or not!

The most obvious feature of a butterfly garden are nectar-bearing flowering plants. Plants commonly visited by butterflies are those which provide sugary nectar used by many species as an energy source. Types of flowers vary greatly in this regard and many commonly used bedding plants such as geraniums and petunias are rarely visited by butterflies, although the latter may be visited at dusk by...

Emergency Gardening

About a year ago one of the neuro-psychiatric Emergency Hospitals ? added gardening to its other branches of occupational therapy. It has been suggested that my experiences during that year might be of interest to those engaged in, or about to undertake, similar work. As I consider that a number of rather vague general statements without chapter and verse are almost valueless, I have?in this ar...