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This award-winning garden in Cleveland celebrates the healing agents of water, wind, sunlight, vegetation and stone. Designed as a series of connected garden rooms, each area of the Nona and Elizabeth Evans Restorative Garden demonstrates the many ways to engage individuals with physical disabilities. Wide, gently sloping pathways are built from materials designed to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers, and the undersides of handrails are fitted with poetry in Braille. The sound and spray of falling water were incorporated especially to reach visitors who are blind. This barrier-breaking garden allows all people to experience its natural healing elements.