The Enabling Garden: Creating Barrier-Free Gardens
This is a personal account of horticultural therapy, or gardening with disabilities, by someone who shares his own firsthand experiences. Rothert, the manager of urban horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden and president of the American Horticultural Therapy Association, discusses gardening while one is seated, making raised beds and smooth paths, selecting appropriate plants and tools, and performing maintenance chores. This title covers some of the same ground as Able To Garden (LJ 7/91) and John Pierce and Roland Barnsley's Easy Lifelong Gardening (LJ 6/1/93) but contains more personal tips. Rothert includes lists of his favorite plants, organizations, enabling gardens, and sources for gardening supplies. Recommended for libraries that need additional material on the subject.Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., SeattleCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.