The garden includes a jungle scene mural

Its sounds, smells and sights are designed to stimulate youngsters at the Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales.

Some 100 people from the neighbouring medical equipment research company, GE Healthcare, are working on the garden at the Maynard Centre in Whitchurch.

It includes a water feature, wind chimes and as heavily scented flowers in a jungle theme.

Some 250 children attend the centre, which offers physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy.

Raised flower beds allow children in wheelchairs to touch and smell the flora at close range, and beds of deep grasses and bamboos become the backdrop to a mural of jungle animals painted on a wall.

Glenys Evans, of the Bobath centre, said: "The garden will be a wonderfully stimulating place, allowing the children to receive a new dimension of therapy in the outdoors.

Children will be able to access the flora in raised flowerbeds

"With its smells, textures, colours and sounds, the garden will be a great place for the children to explore and enjoy."

Jan Sperandeo, of GE Healthcare said: "We are delighted to be embarking on such an exciting project which will provide many years of enjoyment for the children at the Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales and their families.

"It's more than that, though - it will also provide a new and interesting environment in which the children will be challenged and stimulated, as well as a pleasant garden area to just sit and relax in.