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.