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Summer Sensory Gardens
We planted these big galvanized stock tank sensory gardens at an early-childhood school about a year ago, and WOW, are they booming! ...
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Pollinator Greetings
The front entrance pollinator garden at this early-childhood school doesn’t take summers off! A late-day shower really makes it pop🩷🩷...
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Magic in a Children’s Sensory Garden
This fritillary butterfly seems to enjoy the purple top vervain and white geraniums in this sensory garden as much as the children do!...
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Sensory Gardens
We had so much fun planting these big galvanized stock tanks with sensory plants at this Columbus, Ohio early-childhood center for young...
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Happy, Hardy Hibiscus!
Hardy hibiscus flourish in the moist edges of the river-rock ‘creekbed’ in this Integrity-designed natural play environment for young...
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Slide into Nature
Traditional play equipment can be seamlessly incorporated into natural outdoor learning environments for children. A...
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Summer Shade
Native switchgrass and American cranberrybush viburnum create a shady summer seating nook in this Integrity-designed natural outdoor play...
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Outdoor Kitchen Fun
Young children can create mud pies or wash produce from their edible garden in this outdoor kitchen. The kitchen was custom-crafted by...
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​Accessible School Gardens
A wheelchair-accessible raised bed and an outdoor classroom create a fun, inviting space at this Integrity-designed natural outdoor play...
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Fall in the Poetry Garden
A sign in this library poetry garden, an Integrity design project from some years back, is beautifully wreathed in Northern sea oats. We...
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The Golden Hour
This play barn constructed of salvaged wood beams and siding from historic Ohio barns has survived almost 20 years of creative play at...
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Flowers on the Fairy Hut Roof
This recently-planted fairy hut green roof in the outdoor learning environment at a Columbus early-childhood center is literally...
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Green Roof for a Fairy House
A fairy hut at an early-childhood school received a fun green-roof hairdo today! The composite lumber roof was covered with heavy plastic...
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Holiday Fun in the Garden
We popped some tiny evergreens in the accessible and regular raised beds at this early-childhood center for the children to decorate for...
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Sunlit Fall Play
Ahhhh, that soft, golden late-fall light! It’s so beautiful! We’re out in the natural outdoor play environment at this school planning...
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Nature’s Patterns
This gorgeous mandala was created as a professional development exercise by staff members at an early childhood facility that embraces...
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Beautiful Rhythms
We love these ‘boom drums’! The art studio and maintenance staff at this school created these from salvaged 50 gallon drums. The metallic...
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Hedgerows!
Bayberry, cup plant and switchgrass bring great texture, color, fragrance and pollinator value to this outdoor play...
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Quiet spaces
A hut constructed of living willow provides a space for quiet small-group play in this natural outdoor learning environment at a...
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