This past year I was chosen as the PFGC Gardener of the Year. After 32 years in Iowa and 24 years in Wisconsin battling snow, rabbitts, deer and ticks, moving to Florida was like garden heaven. I found I could have blooms in my garden twelve months of the year. My Wisconsin garden left me with rheumatiod arthritis from Lymes disease. But I find gardening in the heat helps me keep the joints moving.
Morning walking and swimming pool excercises also help.