8 Easy Landscaping Tips for Low Maintenance Garden

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Easy Landscaping Tips for Low Maintenance Garden
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Unfortunately, there is no plant that is maintenance-free and every garden requires regular care and seasonal cleanup work. However, by making some changes you can reduce your efforts. Follow these Easy Landscaping Tips and transform your yard!


Easy Landscaping Tips

Grow Low Maintenance Plants

  • So what are the plants that do not require special care? The answer is simple, native plants and the plants that are most suitable for your climate and the growing conditions you have for them in your garden.
  • For a low-maintenance garden, you’ll have to do a sacrifice. Instead of exotic plants, choose indigenous species, preferably those that occur naturally around your area. Such plants are easy to adapt, tough, resilient, and will grow well even without special attention.

Group Plants According to their Requirements

Group Plants According to their Requirements

  • Group plants according to their requirements at the right location, plants that require full sun or shade must be planted carefully together. Plants that require moist soil must not be planted with the ones that have low watering needs.
  • Give preference to drought-tolerant plants as they require less watering. Also, the plants that grow slowly are a good option as they need less pruning. Those plants that spread widely must be planted too as they cover space, which means fewer plants. Also, don’t forget about the plants that resist pests and diseases.
  • There are a variety of conifers that do not shed their needles in the winter, so in this period when everything seems dull they will look good in your garden. Conifers do not require regular care from pests too.

Opt for PerennialsOpt for Perennials

Instead of sowing seeds of annual plants routinely, opt for perennials and easy landscaping plants. You will only need to do deadheading and pruning sometimes. Once grown, most of the perennials do well with infrequent watering.

These plants are also quite resistant to pests than annuals. If you would like to grow annuals, grow the ones that are self-seeding and require less care.


No Lawn Please!No Lawn Please

If you want a Low maintenance garden, avoid having a lawn. Instead, design a rock garden there or plan something unique. Plant a flower bed or grow lawn alternatives.

Growing ground covers, small shrubs, and bushes are also a good idea. You can also create a wildflower meadow there, this will give a chance for wildlife to thrive.


Don’t Overcrowd Your Garden

Don't Overcrowd Your Garden
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Plant moderately, don’t overcrowd your garden. The more plants you have, the more your garden will require treatment and attention.


Water Right

Water Right
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  • An indispensable solution may be the automatic irrigation system, which practically does not require maintenance, it allows you to save time that you would have to spend on watering the garden. The system is activated at a time you set and dispense the correct amount of water to particular groups of plants.
  • The automated watering system may be expensive, however, there are a few more hacks that can save you time like growing drought-tolerant plants or those that prefer dry soil.
  • Large shrubs, long-living trees, and fruit plants once become established get water from nature and require watering sparingly. Also, you can replace your ordinary containers with self-watering ones.

Use Slow Release Fertilizers

Use Slow Release Fertilizers

Slow-release fertilizers limit the use of frequent fertilization. In addition, in the long run, they provide the plants with the nutrients they need, gradually.


Do Mulching

Do Mulching

  • Mulching is part of easy landscaping. Do mulching everywhere, this will help in keeping the soil moist, water will evaporate less and roots will get ample moisture. Also, thick mulching (2-3 inches at least) helps in eliminating weeds.
  • You can also cover the soil with pebbles and gravel. This will make your garden more attractive and it works as a mulch too.
  • You can also cover the empty space of your garden with sun-blocking plastic sheeting, it may not look good but doesn’t allow weed seeds to germinate and spread.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Slow release fertilizers may not be necessary. Most people tend to over-fertilize. “Water right” is a good idea but ‘they’ now charge way too much to put a good system in place. Pays for itself in 20 years (it seems)

  2. Hi I love flowers but most of my plants are green,what are some of the flowers can I add to make it look bright.

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