Seniors gathering around a LifeSpace self-watering garden at an outdoor community dining table

Abundant Senior Living

Some things in life you should never have to retire from.

Gardens, Food, Friends...

Self-watering accessible garden systems for senior living, retirement, and care communities — built for resident wellness and low staff maintenance.

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Accessible Gardens for Abundant Senior Living

Accessible self-watering gardens for residents who want to gather, grow,
harvest, and participate - without bending, kneeling, or daily watering.

LifeSpace Gardens help retirement and senior communities create refined, self-watering garden amenities that residents actually use, staff can realistically maintain, and families can immediately understand as part of a richer community lifestyle.

Installations across North America.

Make the Most of Your Community

Your courtyards, patios, and terraces should do more than look beautiful. LifeSpace accessibility gardens turn them into resident-loved spaces for wellness, connection, fresh food, and meaningful daily engagement.

Aging in Place, Growing Together

With the right accessible garden design, growing food offers therapeutic benefits — supporting movement, purpose, social connection, memory, fresh air, and the simple joy of nurturing something alive — without bending, kneeling, or turning wellness into work.

For Residents & Families

Outdoor time shouldn't have to be passive. Create a place to gather, remember, learn, harvest, taste, and feel connected to those you love.

For Operations & Maintenance Teams

A garden shouldn't become a daily watering burden. Self-watering sub-irrigation gardens make ongoing care more practical - reducing maintenance and water consumption by up to 80%.

For LifeStyle & Wellness Directors

Seasonal programming shouldn't be difficult. Create repeatable seasonal activities that offer deep connection & residents can join at different ability levels.

For Culinary & Restaurant Teams

Fresh food shouldn't be hidden in the kitchen. Grow herbs, veggies, edible flowers, and tasting moments close to dining spaces for a more sustainable experience

For Designers & Amenity Curators

Accessible growing shouldn't look like an add-on. Integrate food-growing into considered outdoor spaces with products designed to look intentional.

For Sales & Marketing Teams

A standout amenity shouldn't be hard to explain. Use the garden as a visible proof point for wellness, lifestyle, hospitality, sustainability, and resident engagement.

Featured Products

HighRise self-watering accessible planter for senior communities

HighRise

The HighRise Planter is the simplest way to add accessible, self-watering food growing to patios, terraces, dining areas, balconies, and smaller outdoor spaces.

It gives residents a comfortable, approachable place to grow herbs,
salad greens, edible flowers, and patio crops without asking them to kneel,
crouch, or manage a traditional bed.

Elevated Heirloom self-watering garden in a senior living courtyard

Elevated Heirloom

The Elevated Heirloom Garden gives communities a larger, more substantial growing area while keeping the garden experience more comfortable and more refined.

Use it as the anchor for a premium courtyard garden, an edible landscape feature, a pollinator-friendly walkway, or a larger resident growing program supported by LifeSpace self-watering design.

Harmony wheelchair-accessible self-watering garden for residents

Harmony Garden

The Harmony Garden is the signature wheelchair accessibility garden for residents who use wheelchairs or require a more inclusive growing experience.

Its social form invites residents, staff, family members, and visitors to gather around the garden together. That makes it especially strong for assisted living and memory care courtyards, wellness programming, intergenerational events, and resident garden clubs.

Harvest Table garden for plant-to-plate dining in senior communities

Harvest Table

The Harvest Table brings the garden into the dining and hospitality experience. It is designed for plant-to-plate moments: clipping herbs together, hosting chef demonstrations, sharing tastings, creating family-visit memories, and turning fresh food into a shared ritual.

This is where the garden becomes more than landscaping. It becomes a story residents can taste and families can remember.

Signature Packages

Support at Every Step. Ensuring your Success.

LifeSpace supports your team during the installation and beyond.

We provide complimentary training for assembly, installation, soil selection, self-watering setup, and curated maintenance schedules so your staff feels confident caring for the gardens for years to come.

For an additional bespoke service, we can also create custom full-season planting plans designed around your community’s garden package, resident programming, culinary goals, and seasonal events.

FAQ

Yes absolutely.

Communities can purchase individual products as stand-alone solutions or combine them into custom combinations. However, our packages are specially curated and allow you to unlock special pricing and discounted shipping.

LifeSpace Gardens feature an innovative self-watering system and often only require filling once a week, even in the middle of Summer.

This reduces water consumption and maintenance by up to 80% in most instances.

Establish a routine of checking the Hummingbird float gauge and garden success is guaranteed.

LifeSpace gardens are designed to make gardening more comfortable and approachable for a wider range of residents.

The Harmony Garden is especially well suited for residents who use wheelchairs or require a more accessible gardening experience. HighRise Gardens and Elevated Heirloom Gardens also help reduce the need for bending, kneeling, or working at ground level.

Final accessibility should always consider the full site layout, including pathways, surface materials, turning space, reach distance, and local accessibility requirements.

Each LifeSpace Garden comes with GardenWells pre-installed. One hidden benefit of this system is that the food safe waterproof liner completely protects the garden from the inside out. This means no rot.

Because the soil and water never come in contact with the woodwork, your gardens will last 3-4x longer than traditional raised beds, surpass fibreglass and plastic, and rival aluminum and other metal options.

We offer a 10 year guarantee

LifeSpace can provide assembly and installation guidance, staff training, soil recommendations, and setup support. For larger or more complex projects, installation details should be reviewed during the quoting process.

In many cases, yes. Your landscaping, maintenance, or facilities team may be able to assemble and install the gardens with proper guidance.

LifeSpace can provide training and support so your team understands assembly, placement, soil setup, self-watering system use, and maintenance routines.

Some gardens may require minimal assembly on site. Your LifeSpace representative can confirm what will arrive fully pre-assembled, and what will require assembly, and what support is available for your specific order.

No professional experience required.

No. The beauty of the self-watering system is that the gardens can be filled by hose or hand once a week, and this filling process forms the foundation of your garden routine.

It also greatly reduces irrigation costs.

No. Many LifeSpace packages are designed to create a meaningful upgrade without requiring a full landscape renovation.

For example, the Terrace Refresh can transform an existing patio or dining terrace using HighRise Gardens, while the Accessible Garden Club can create a focused resident programming zone without rebuilding an entire courtyard.

Larger packages can also be integrated into broader landscape, construction, or redevelopment projects.

Gardens can be placed in many outdoor community spaces, including patios, terraces, courtyards, rooftop lounges, dining areas, walking-loop rest stops, entry areas, balconies, and garden zones.

The ideal location should have appropriate sunlight, level placement, safe resident access, staff access for maintenance, and suitable conditions for watering and drainage.

For an additional cost and a truly bespoke experience, a custom full-season planting plan can be created.

It may include seasonal crop recommendations, planting timelines, garden layout guidance, maintenance notes, harvest ideas, activity prompts, and programming suggestions.

Plans can be tailored around your garden package, local growing season, resident interests, culinary goals, and staff capacity.

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We'll help you review your goals, space, resident needs, and timeline, then recommend the best product mix or package to get your community growing!

Yes. The accessible height and enclosed sub-irrigation design make the gardens safe and engaging for memory care residents. Raised beds allow participation without bending or kneeling, and therapeutic gardening supports sensory engagement, routine, and connection for residents living with dementia.

Therapeutic gardening supports resident wellness through gentle movement, sensory stimulation, social connection, and a sense of purpose. Growing and harvesting food encourages daily engagement and has been widely used in senior living wellness and memory care programming.

LifeSpace gardens are backed by a 10-year warranty. Built from rot-proof Western Red Cedar with a food-safe waterproof liner, they are designed to last well beyond a decade with minimal maintenance.

Very little. The GardenWells self-watering sub-irrigation system reduces watering frequency and water consumption by up to 80%, so residents and staff aren't burdened with daily hand-watering. Reservoirs are typically topped up weekly.

Yes. The gardens are designed for garden clubs, chef demonstrations, family visits, seasonal planting activities, and intergenerational events. LifeSpace can create custom full-season planting plans built around your community's programming and culinary goals.

LifeSpace gardens are used across independent living, assisted living, memory care, retirement communities, and long-term care facilities, as well as hospitals and wellness-focused senior residences throughout North America.

Yes. Our elevated garden beds for seniors sit at a comfortable standing or seated height, so residents can plant, tend, and harvest without bending or kneeling. As accessible raised garden beds, they suit residents of all mobility levels — including those who garden from a chair — and the self-watering base keeps maintenance low for staff.

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