If a member of your family has low vision or has found their vision deteriorating over time, there are a few simple planting tricks to make it easier to navigate around the garden.

• White flowering plants are perfect to border edges of paths.
• Silver foliage plants are ideal for mass planting and to highlight changes in the garden. Silver is particularly good to help those with low vision navigate garden areas at night.
• Relay paths and step edges with white paving to highlight changes in levels.
• Give a renewed focus to strongly perfumed plants, both flowers and foliage in high traffic areas.
• Avoid masses of small pots and mass plant large individual planters to avoid tripping hazards.
• Select light coloured glazed pots.
• The use of sticky reflective tape placed under the planter rim won’t be intrusive in the daylight but will reflect in low light conditions.