Low-maintenance gardens are all about easy landscaping and growing undemanding plants, such as perennials and wildflowers.
Love the look of a beautiful garden? Yet, due to a busy lifestyle or any other reason, trying to find a way to reduce gardening tasks?
If so, consider low-maintenance gardening. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean to stop caring for features and/or functions that come first on your priority list. Actually, what you need to do is reduce activities in other parts of the garden.
As lawns are time- and labor-consuming, opt for alternative solutions, such as meadows.
Start re-planning your landscape and keep things as simple as you can. Try to create a no-dig garden. Large raised beds and straw bale gardens are always an impressive choice!
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Focus on less upkeep options, such as perennials, climate-specific grasses and native plants, and no-fuss flowers.
Create outdoor living spaces where to relax and entertain because it means to reduce the areas you need to care for. Try to incorporate features that add visual interest and appeal, such as trellises and attention-grabbing edgings.
Low-maintenance Landscaping
Transitioning to low-maintenance gardening should start with thoughtful, careful planning. Divide the garden into zones, such as entertaining, growing, pathways, garden structures, and more as to meet your needs and lifestyle. Focus on what you already have and what you want to change.
Don’t forget to test the soil in the garden. When treated right, soil considerably helps easy-maintenance gardening. Generally, focus on feeding your soil, not the plants because healthy soil grows disease- and pest-free plants. Always keep in mind that digging and tilling destroy soil life. In this regard, creating no-dig gardens is a step to transition to low-maintenance gardening.
Installing an automatic irrigation system can definitely help reduce garden