Garden for Life: STRATEGIES FOR EASIER, GREENER, MORE JOYFUL GARDENING AS WE AGE

In a recent survey, Forbes magazine found that 77 percent of adults over 50 prefer to age in place as a way to preserve independence, familiarity, community, and quality of life.Many of them don t want to leave gardens that in some cases they ve spent a lifetime nurturing but now find daunting to maintain.As people approaching retirement age experience physical changes, they are also encountering financial and family changes, and differing priorities that can affect the amount of time and energy they allot to gardening.Garden for Life will help older gardeners evaluate their garden situation, suggesting ways to redesign an existing garden or to design a new one when downsizing (or right-sizing ), new techniques and tools to make gardening easier, how to select appropriate plants, and also how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so that they can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of gardening.Hayes has long written about the how-to of gardening and is also keenly aware of the