Older & Less Mobile Gardeners
What's This Plant Helping Hand Garden Designer
Answer a few gentle questions about your time, comfort and mobility. This tool will suggest a garden style and plant types
that aim to look beautiful without demanding more from your body than feels kind.
This is not a test – it’s just to help the garden match your real life, not an imaginary ideal.
Suggested garden layout concept
A shape that aims to be kind to your body while still feeling uplifting.
Plant types matched to your strength & time
These are broad plant categories. Within each you can choose species using your other tools (Best Plants, Growth Calculator, Pruning Planner).
✅ Well suited to you
Plant types that should be realistic to manage mostly on your own.
🤝 OK with occasional help
Best tackled in small doses or with someone to share the heavier bits.
⛔ Best to minimise or delegate
You can still enjoy the effect, but consider getting help for these tasks.
Take this as a friendly starting point. Over time you’ll discover which jobs feel satisfying and which you’d rather hand off, and you can steer your planting in that direction.
This tool can’t know your exact health or medical situation. It offers gentle, general guidance only.
Always follow advice from your doctor or physiotherapist about safe movement and lifting, and take breaks whenever your body asks for them.
