If you’re looking to take up gardening, you are far from alone. Here in the United States, there is no doubt about it – gardening is quite hugely population indeed. Over the course of just one single year, more than 117 million people in this country alone participated in gardening activities to some extent. And that was just in the year of 2017. In the years that are ahead of us, it is likely that gardening will only continue to grow more and more popular with time. With the market for home and gardening already worth more than $272 billion by the time 2017 had drawn to a close, there is no doubting the fact that this is a lucrative industry as well. After all, that value had increased by an astonishing $10 billion by the time that the next year had come to a close.
Gardening and plants are even becoming more and more popular among young people. While older generations still make up around 35% of all gardeners (making them the largest group of gardeners here in the United States), young people are beginning to pick up the activity as well. After all, recent research showed that people falling between the ages of 18 and 34 actually accounted for nearly one third of all gardeners (just under 30% of them, to be just a bit more precise).
Fortunately, gardening is something that can be done by just about anyone. After all, even house plant ownership can count as gardening. If you are living in a space where you don’t have access to a backyard, you can still grow and tend to plants. In fact, there are a number of different plants that even thrive in various indoor settings. Even if you don’t have a ton of natural light, growing plants is possible. And house plants are becoming ever more popular for people here in the United States, especially younger people who might not have a fully established home yet. For renters, especially in urban environments, house plants can bring some greenery to the home. It’s not for no reason, after all, that up to 30% of all people here in the United States have house plants – with some having a great many of these plants, for that matter.
Of course, house plants are far from the only way to garden. As a matter of fact, there is most certainly no one right or wrong way in which to partake in gardening. For some people, growing seasonal flowers is what will bring them, by and large, the most joy. For other people, planting a vegetable garden is the ideal. After all, you can eat the vegetables that you grow, something that is not only likely to be quite delicious but time saving and cost saving as well, preventing trips that you otherwise might have taken to the grocery store.
But no matter what plants you ultimately decide upon, where you get these plants matters as well. Your local home garden center is likely to provide for all of your gardening needs. Not only will plant nurseries give you access to seeds as well as seedlings (often a good choice for the novice gardener) but local garden centers can also give information for those who are looking to cultivate their green thumb for the very first time. After all, local garden centers and the people who are employed there will be filled with gardening information. For many people who might not know yet what they are doing, exactly, reaching out to these professionals can give them access to this vital information. At the end of the day, knowing how to properly care for your plants – and keep them alive – is going to go a huge way in your overall success as a gardener, of this there is just no doubt.
At the end of the day, there is also no doubting the popularity of gardening – which has continued to climb and climb and climb. Ultimately, it is very likely indeed that many people will continue to become interested in gardening in the years that are ahead of us as well.
