Therapeutic garden opens in West Coast Park

Features include seniors’ zone, play area for kids and community space

- Joyce Teo

The Republic's second-largest therapeutic garden, featuring fragrant, edible or brightly coloured plants, opened in West Coast Park on Sept 12.

The garden, situated near the park's carpark 2, has wide pathways that wheelchair users can easily navigate and a community space for programmes, such as leaf collage and scent-bag making, among other features.

Therapeutic gardens help people interact with nature to improve their well-being.

The new garden at West Coast Park covers an area of 7,600 sq m, which is slightly larger than a football field. It is split into a zone for seniors, with exercise area and raised planters, and a zone for children, featuring a sand play area and relaxation spots that can serve as quiet hideouts.

Trees in West Coast Park that have been there for more than 40 years have been incorporated into the design, including a majestic 12m-tall Banyan tree.