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Mechanical engineering student Adam French works on the Garden for the Senses.<\/p><\/div>\n

Is there an escape from the ringing phones, rattling printers and other office noise at Wright State? Is there a haven from the pressures of teaching, studying and working?<\/p>\n

There is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called the Clara E. Weisenborn Garden for the Senses. And it\u2019s an oasis in a desert of stress.<\/p>\n

The garden is a stone\u2019s throw from Allyn Hall.<\/p>\n

Water trickles and pools around a stone mermaid sculpture. A hummingbird hovers and darts among the flowers. A vine-covered pergola shoots tiny shafts of sunbeams to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can be that little bit of relaxation in the middle of a crazy, hectic day,\u201d said Linda Ramey, Associate Director of Sustainability.<\/p>\n

Ramey, mechanical engineering major Adam French and other volunteers have been adding plants and otherwise sprucing up the garden over the past six weeks. Adam is a VISTA Summer Associate working this summer on gardening projects including community gardens.<\/p>\n

The garden\u2019s displays read like a seed catalog.<\/p>\n

There is sweet basil, mint, sage and rosemary. There are peonies, irises, hibiscus, day lilies, sedum, oak leaf hydrangeas, Shasta daisies, coneflowers, flowering crabapple trees, black-eyed Susans, hostas, mums, dahlias, yarrow, colombine and begonias. There is a burning bush, trumpeter vine, wisteria and a red twig dogwood.<\/p>\n

The garden gets its name because it bombards different senses.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see the flowers, feel the lamb\u2019s ear, smell the mint, the sage, the basil, the rosemary, the lavender,\u201d Ramey said.<\/p>\n

The garden is a popular lunch spot for summer campers and an educational treasure trove for the young children at Mini U.<\/p>\n

Ramey hopes students, faculty and staff will take greater advantage of the garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would just like it to be a restful, quiet place where folks can come and collect their thoughts during the day,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice place to get into nature and is literally just a few steps out of the buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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