FAQ: What is my gardening personality?
Answer: Your gardening personality could range from the eco-conscious gardener to the wildlife supporter.

In this fun blog post, you’ll learn which gardening personality you have, as well as incorporating new ideas to expand your gardening knowledge:

• The psychology of plants
• What gardening personality are you?
• Garden Media Trends 2024: What trends shaped your gardening personality?

The Psychology of Plants

It’s well documented that working in a garden or flowerbed is excellent physical exercise. But did you know gardening is also good for your mental health?

Here are the mental health benefits of working in a garden:

• It reduces stress
• It pounds out anxiety
• It increases self-esteem
• It strengthens social bonds.

While finding your garden personality is fun, remember that no matter what type of gardener you are, you also get additional benefits from working in the garden. Pulling weeds, finding that perfect plant, and growing your own food are good for the body and the soul.

What Gardening Personality Are You?

How eco-optimistic are you? Eco-optimism refers to bringing hope to counter eco-anxiety. Instead of thinking the world is ending due to climate change, eco-optimism encourages everyone, including gardeners, to do their part in reversing climate change.

Here are five gardening personalities. Which one are you, or are you a combination of personalities?

1. The eco-conscious gardener: When working in their garden and landscapes, the eco-conscious gardener thinks about the environment. They use native plants, porous pavers, and organic fertilizers. The eco-conscious gardener probably has a compost pile and grasscycles after mowing. The eco-conscious gardener considers reclaimed watering, or water recycling, for their landscaped areas.
2. The tech-savvy gardener: As the name implies, the tech-savvy gardener uses technology, such as apps, to help them in the garden. Tech-savvy gardeners love irrigation systems that control watering through an app or Wi-Fi. Recommended websites and apps for the tech-savvy gardener include:
   • Ship My Plants, a website designed to connect gardeners with garden centers.
   • Planta, an app to help indoor plant parents; it’s available on Android and iOS.
   • PictureThis is a plant identification app accessible on Android and iOS.
   • LeafSnap, another plant identifier available on Android and iOS.
   • Planter, available on Android, iOS, and the web, helps the gardener with planning.
   • Moon and Garden is a gardening app to help with planting by the lunar cycle. You can find this app on Android and iOS.
   • Plantix uses machine learning and image recognition to identify plant diseases, available only on Android.
   • GardenAI uses AI to help gardeners throughout the growing season, and it is available only on Android.
   • Seedtime, another garden planner available on Android and iOS, provides task lists, a journal, and a classroom to learn more about different garden topics.
3. The edible enthusiast: This gardening personality loves growing their food. They may grow edibles in a traditional vegetable garden, have a small orchard, and incorporate edibles in their landscape design. The edible enthusiast uses drip irrigation in their vegetable gardens and landscaped areas. The best edibles to put in a landscape include:
   • Strawberries as ground covers
   • Plant dwarf blueberries in containers
   • Grow dwarf vegetables in pots to decorate your patio
   • Grow herbs in flowerbeds, containers, and colorful clay pots
   • Leafy vegetables, like Swiss chard, spinach, red lettuce, and kale, add texture to a flowerbed. 
4. The aesthetic gardener:This type incorporates garden design and personality into their landscapes and garden beds, such as
   • Color schemes that complement and contrast
   • Variety of textures that provide depth and interest
   • A garden design with paths, focal points, and balance
   • Plant variety includes seasonal interest
   • Garden design includes proportion and scale. The aesthetic gardener will use a mix of driplines, tree bubblers, and sprinklers for their landscapes and turfgrass areas.
5. The wildlife supporter: This gardener invites pollinators, birds, and other wildlife into their landscaped areas. There’s a heavy emphasis on native plants, organic fertilizers and weed control, and Integrated Pest Management. The wildlife supporter will use drip irrigation, tree bubblers, and reclaimed water sprinklers.

Garden Media Trends 2024: What Trends Shaped Your Gardening Personality?

Every fall, Garden Media Group publishes its annual Garden Trends Report. In 2024’s report, garden trends focused on eco-optimism instead of succumbing to eco-anxiety and despair.

This year’s Garden Media Trends focuses on Nature’s Renaissance. In 2025, garden trends will return to nature, encouraging more green spaces and in-person connections.
 

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Sources:
Blog.Planter.Garden, Apps Every Gardener Needs to Know About.
GardenMediaGroup.com, 2024 Garden Trends Report: Eco-Optimism.
Ibid, 2025 Garden Trends Report: Nature’s Renaissance.
MayoClinicHealthSystem.org, Dig into the Benefits of Gardening.
ReleaseYourInnerWildChild.com, Identify Your Garden Personality.