Looking for a fun way to get some insight into your gardening style and how it relates to your personality? Are you having trouble choosing your seminars for the Wheatley Horticultural Society’s Living Landscapes Garden Symposium? Let a personality test help you learn more about yourself, and about the seminars at Living Landscapes that might be most interesting to you.
Craig Cramer at Cornell created a Garden Personality Test based on The Inward Garden by Julie Moir Messervy and the classic Myers-Briggs personality test. The test Cramer created asks questions based on your relationship with nature, whether you plan or play around in the garden, how you value function in relation to design, and if gardening is a social activity for you. The responses to these questions are used to create 8 different types of gardeners.
Check out the personality test – http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gpt/index.php
Check out the full descriptions and methodology for every garden personality type here – http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gpt/interpretation.pdf
We took a look at all of the possible results, and have seminar suggestions for each. Check out the results below- what kind of gardener are you? What kind of gardeners are your friends? What do you want to learn together?
The Turf Manager – You love your lawn!
Seminar Suggestions:
- Compost and Garden Waste Management
- Soils for Success!
- Pruning Demystified
The Rose Gardener – Your garden is tidy and traditional, featuring classic gardening challenges like roses.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Gardening as a Tool for Personal Resilience
- Soils for Success!
- Pruning Demystified
The Market Gardener – You are focused on high performance vegetable gardening.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Compost and Garden Waste Management
- Soils for Success!
- Vegetable Gardening in Suburban Spaces
The Cut Flower Gardener – Your floral displays dazzle, whether they are in the ground, planters or a bouquet.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Native Plants for Tough Environments or Compost and Garden Waste Management
- Soils for Success!
- Designing with Natives or Pruning Demystified
The Carefree Gardener – Your garden has some of everything! You’re working on projects, plus have some in mind for next year. It isn’t perfect and you’re alright with that.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Native Plants for Tough Environments or Gardening as a Tool for Personal Resilience
- Birds in the Landscape
- Vegetable Gardening in Suburban Spaces
The Visionary – Your garden is well designed and managed. You make the most of the environmental conditions you have.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Native Plants for Tough Environments
- Ergonomic Gardening or Soils for Success!
- Designing with Natives or Pruning Demystified
The Permaculturist – You are focused on working with nature to create an ecosystem of your own. You spend your time on soil improvement, edible landscaping and native plants that serve a purpose.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Native Plants for Tough Environments or Compost and Garden Waste Management
- Soils for Success!
- Vegetable Gardening in Suburban Spaces
The Druid – You are one with your garden – you love to be in the middle of the lush space, moving, trimming and nurturing the surprise seedlings that spring up.
Seminar Suggestions:
- Native Plants for Tough Environments
- Birds in the Landscape
- Designing with Natives
