The joys of the garden can now be experienced by blind and disabled people at a specially designed plot unveiled at the weekend.

Touch of beauty - Peggy Glover visits the new garden Picture: ANNA LUKALA

Opened by Castle Point mayor Wendy Goodwin, the sensory garden behind Hadleigh United Reformed Church, in Church Road, Hadleigh, was built by Benfleet Rotary Club.

The garden, which has raised flowerbeds for wheelchair access and sensory plants chosen for their smells and touch, cost £3,000 and was built to mark 100 years of Rotary.

It will be used to help class members of Hadleigh Art Ministry at the church, which runs classes for many community groups, including blind and the disabled people.

Published Tuesday August 24, 2004

Brought to you by the Evening Echo