Easy Gardening - Less Work with Low Maintenance
Gardening
An
Introduction To Low-Maintenance Gardening
Gardens
should give pleasure and be places to enjoy. If yours takes up so
much of your time in routine maintenance that you have little time
left to really appreciate it, you need to think about how to reduce
the labor, without losing out on its beauty.
Basic Groundwork For
Creating A Low Maintenance Garden
With a little
planning and groundwork you can create the perfect low-maintenance
garden. Here are my essential tips...
Tools for Easy Garden
Maintenance
Using the right tools can save time and effort, and will make the
difference between a job being a pleasure or a chore. Good
tools, especially power tools, can be expensive and take up space,
so decide which ones will really reduce the time you spend
gardening.
Low Maintenance Mediterranean
Garden - Hot and Colorful
A Mediterranean garden is
ideal for the low-maintenance gardener and it is so easy to
create.
If you would like to create a garden that is inspired by the
Mediterranean countryside simply pack it with tough,
self-sufficient plants that are colourful, attractive to bees and
butterflies and wonderfully scented. You may also want to stock it
with many aromatic edible plants that are useful for the kitchen.
You might start off with...
Herbaceous Borders In a Low Maintenance
Garden
Whole borders devoted to herbaceous
perennials look stunning during the summer months and well into the
autumn. Plants like astilbes, dicentras and bergenias, which need
no staking, spread relatively slowly and are easy to pull up when
necessary are ideal.
Create A
Mowing Edge In Your Low Maintenance Garden
Edging
the lawn with brick or paving, so that the mower can run over it
saving time and energy, means that the only trimming you will need
to do will be occasionally cutting back any long stems of grass
that grow over the paving.
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