2024 Is the Year of the Wellness Garden, So Here's What to Know

As the thick of winter settles on our patios and yards, you might not be thinking about gardening yet. But if you look forward, you’ll see that 2024 is poised to be the year of the wellness garden.

A wellness garden, also sometimes called a healing garden or therapeutic garden, isn’t new to the gardening world. In fact, Katie Tamony, chief marketing officer and trendspotter at Monrovia, told Veranda that wellness gardens have been on the rise since 2020.

“Gardening has increasingly become an activity that allows us to remove ourselves from the noise of life,” Tamony told the outlet.

These gardens provide a sensory experience while promoting relaxation. It’s a garden created specifically to give us joy while we spend time in it, designed with harmony and rejuvenation in front of our minds. Your garden is more than a plot of land, so you should experience it that way.

Wellness gardens often incorporate fragrant plants, which help transport you to a relaxing and joyful space. Lavender is famous for its calming fragrance and can be a joy to grow because it’s so low maintenance. You can grow classic roses, sweet and elegant jasmine, bright and beautiful lilac, and fragrant honeysuckle. Scented geraniums are a great option, too, because they come in various scents, from rose to lemon to mint.

There are plants that not only smell great but you can also snack on or include in a meal, like mint, basil, and citrus trees. And we’d be remiss to forget chamomile, valued not only for its calming properties but also for its sweet, apple-like fragrance. In 2024, gardeners are not just planting their flowers; they are sowing the seeds of joy.

Moving beyond fragrances, wellness gardens will have plenty of green companions to those