Gardening & Nature Activities For Seniors

Seniors can see significant benefits from tending to a small garden and/or getting sunshine and fresh air. Even if they don’t have room for a full garden, many nature activities can be done indoors or in a tiny square footage. Everyone can benefit from a small garden and low-impact gardening.

Some of these activities will get you thinking about how simple activities could reduce anxiety and depression while improving overall strength and balance.

Tending a Terrarium

Frequently, seniors neglect gardening because it’s simply too difficult for them to get down on their knees in the dirt. An indoor terrarium can solve this problem, allowing them to create their garden at a more appropriate height, housed inside a jar or fish tank. They are relatively easy to start and can be a great addition to any room.

Succulent Gardens

If you have a senior in your life who doesn’t want to spend hours tending a garden but still loves the idea of fresh plants, succulents are a great fit. They require very little water and almost no maintenance. They are simply there to be enjoyed and watered only on the rare occasion.

Start an Herb Garden

Have you ever tried the difference between food made with fresh herbs compared to the dried varieties you purchase at the grocery store? Allow a senior in your life to take their culinary feats to a new level with fresh herbs grown in a garden right on their kitchen windowsill. They can tend to their plants daily and harvest them to be used in freshly prepared meals.

Vegetable and Fruit Gardening

A little bit of outdoor space might give you prime real estate for a small vegetable garden. This can be done on a square footage model to keep the garden manageable for seniors who struggle to get up and down. However, you can also adapt a vertical garden with a trellis for peas or cucumbers and a more complex system of hanging baskets for plants like strawberries.

Decorating a Garden

Of course, there are other ways to spend time in nature beyond just tending plants. Seniors with a creative streak might enjoy decorating pots or stepping stones with acrylic paints. These can also be given as gifts that friends and family members will treasure over the years.

Let creativity run wild decorating windchimes or pouring concrete for stepping stones embedded with sea glass and other beautiful adornments.

Let Right at Home Winnipeg Help

Are you looking for top-notch elder care in Winnipeg? Right at Home Winnipeg is here to help you make the life of your beloved senior more convenient and comfortable. We offer private home care so seniors can continue to tend their gardens and get fresh air whenever they want. If this sounds right for you or your loved one, reach out to us today to learn more!

Why Right at Home?

• Over 20 years of experience. Right at Home has been providing award winning customized senior care and home care for over 20 years.
• YOUR Caregivers are all part of YOUR Care Team. This means that there is no revolving door of Personal Support Workers and Nurses. With the help of your Care Planner, you choose and get to know them. This leads to an level of care for your loved one that is unsurpassed in our industry.
• Working with government support. Your Care Planner will work to help you find the government supports you are eligible for (if you would like them) and then work to find a solution for the care needs that go above what government and family can do. We will also work around the government care plan so that we are enhancing it.

We help in home, wherever home is to you.

Our Caregivers are always out in the community visiting homes, Retirement Residences, Long Term Care (LTC), hospices and hospitals.