This paper discusses public spaces for special purposes, increasingly often designed in Poland, including the gardens presented, which a form of land development. The aim of this study is to present various types of practical activities using sensory gardens for the education and rehabilitation of children and people with disabilities. An increasing number of such spaces is being created, and they are used by children, adolescents and adults with developmental deficits. Contact with nature has a positive effect on health and human psychophysical fitness. This is particularly important in the case of people with impaired perception and processing of sensory stimuli, who, when in a special natural environment, can improve their senses and sensory integration. The following research methods were used: analysis of the literature, observation of sensory gardens, interview, participatory observation, documentation analysis. These methods enabled the analysis of the educational and therapeutic function of classes conducted in selected sensory gardens and confirm the hypothesis that they allow for the education and therapy of people of different ages and with different levels of psychophysical fitness.