Baby Boomers Become Garden Enthusiasts

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Baby Boomers are defined as the people who were born in the boom period during the post-World War II years. During this period of prosperity, many families increased the size of their families and lots of babies were born, making this a huge segment of the population. Today, these Baby Boomers are just starting to enter their retirement years. As each year passes, more and more Baby Boomers will enter retirement.

 

Unlike retirees of past decades, Baby Boomers are active, creative, innovative people who have absolutely no intention of rocking on their front porches or simply passing time playing shuttle board. They are active people who want creative, active outlets for their energies and want to remain younger-feeling for longer. They have no intention of becoming old gracefully but will fight the process every step of the way.

 

One creative outlet that Baby Boomers are turning to is gardening and landscaping. Those who had little time during their career years to enjoy these endeavors find they now have time on their hands they can use to beautiful their environment by becoming garden enthusiasts. As life-long learners, they are no daunted by the thought to learning or improving a skill and perfecting garden design and care.

 

Remaining Active and Healthy

 

Often in the past, retirees felt they were "too old" to tackle a new hobby. Today's Baby Boomers feel that remaining active will allow them to perform more activities for more years, extending their life spans and science has proven this to be true.

 

Some Baby Boomers lived in cities during their career years and had little or no space for landscaping. Often, these Boomers use their retirement savings and the proceeds from selling their city condos and co-ops to purchase a cottage with a large lawn or back yard. This provides them with the space needed to really get into their gardening endeavors.

 

Many Baby Boomers begin with small landscaping efforts, simply planting a few annuals or hanging baskets to highlight a veranda. Once the gardening bug takes over, they frequently expand their gardening enthusiasm into full-fledged landscaping projects.

 

Baby Boomers in comfortable financial situations create extensive gardening projects including vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens, shrubbery, topiary, and shade trees. Often they include water features, stone pathways, statuary, and truly creative along with automatic moisture-sensing watering systems and other features to make their gardens fabulous.

 

Baby Boomers who are not financially flush can still become garden enthusiasts. The costs of purchasing seedlings or seed packets are very minimal and the tools required for basic gardening are quite affordable. Watering with a common, inexpensive garden hose is perfectly functional for the low-budget Baby Boomer garden.

 

The exercise, bending, stretching, and moving about involved in gardening helps keep aging Baby Boomers active and energetic -- just as it does for younger garden enthusiasts.

 

Enjoying Your Environment

 

Baby Boomers are eco-conscious in most cases and tend to create eco-friendly gardens, growing organic vegetables, creating their own compost, and even shredding their own mulch. This not only saves money but helps the environment.

 

As more and more Baby Boomers enter their leisure years, this emerging trend will increase. While these Boomers may well have many other interesting activities, you can be certain that many will include gardening and landscaping a large part of their entertaining and satisfying activities. They'll enjoy bouquets from their own flower gardens, produce and herbs that are truly fresh and pesticide-free, and brag to their friend of their efforts instead of complaining of retirement boredom.

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