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Adaptive Gardening:
Gardening for a Lifetime By B y Kathy Jentz
Tips for Adapting Your Garden:
• As you begin the process of re-envisioning your garden: Assess your limitations and your needs, both physically and financially. • Determine changes you want to make in terms of their priority. • Design and plan changes, including raised beds, containers, and paths. Look for vertical gardening opportunities. • Check with your local extension office and go online to get advice. • Decide how much help you need. • Ask gardener friends and neighbors for recommendations for garden helpers, garden maintenance companies, or landscape designers—whatever you determine you need to get it done.
Anne Hardman, 70, works with fellow members of the Silver Spring Garden Club planting a therapeutic garden at Holy Cross Hospital in Forest Glen, MD.
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WASHINGTON GARDENER NOVEMBER 2018
