Rhonda Fleming Hayes launches Garden for Life

Don’t throw in the trowel! In Garden for Life, Rhonda Fleming Hayes brings a lifetime of gardening experience, research-based advice, and collective wisdom to older gardeners who are looking for inspiration and practical strategies. This delightful comprehensive guide suggests ways to downsize or redesign an existing garden, presents new techniques and tools to make gardening less strenuous, and highlights plants that “multitask” to make a garden more sustainable—for both the gardener and the environment. It also advises on how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so we can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of time in the garden.

Garden for Life reminds us of the many proven health benefits of gardening. Gardening is a simple way to answer the human need to connect with nature, a craving called biophilia. It offers a low-intensity workout with a variety of natural movement, provides a sense of purpose while nurturing a meditative state that decreases stress, fosters improved nutrition and better brain health, and grows social connection and community. In short, gardening is excellent for health and longevity!

Rhonda Fleming Hayes is the author of Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier , Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age and Pollinator Friendly Gardening: Gardening for Bees, Butterflies and Other Pollinators.

Rhonda is an award-winning writer and photographer applying her passion to all things plant related. Combining a lifetime of gardening experience with wit and solid research-based advice, her stories can be found in the Minnesota Star Tribune, Northern Gardener, and Mpls/StPaul Magazine. She has also been published in Southern Living, Midwest Living, Savannah Magazine, and numerous online sites.

She’s a popular speaker for garden clubs and other groups with presentations covering pollinators, butterfly gardening, native plants, and the art of kitchen gardening to name a few.

Rhonda is a native Californian with Southern roots living in Minnesota. Nowadays she and her husband spend winters in New Orleans where she delights in growing her own lemons. Following his nomadic career she has also lived and gardened in Tennessee, Kansas (twice), Illinois (twice), Iowa and even England. Regardless of location she has learned to bloom where she’s planted.

Rhonda gardens in Minneapolis in an urban neighborhood surrounded by woods and water. The abundant plot is home to many bees, butterflies, birds and beneficial insects. She loves to share the fruits (and veggies) of her garden with friends, family and wildlife.

She has volunteered as an Extension Master Gardener since 2000. She is a member of GardenComm, Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Herb Society of America, and a past trustee of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

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