Top Tips To Achieve A Low Maintenance Garden

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A garden is not something you want to spend all of your free time on. Although you might want it to look nice, you will want to get on with other things in the summer evenings or at weekends. Unless you are a professional gardener or a keen one at least, you may often require advice on how to garden and maintain your landscape and lawn. If you want to reduce the time you have to spend on garden and lawn maintenance, keep reading.

Invest in brush clearing

Brush clearing will help you reclaim a gorgeous lawn in no time. There are brush mowing experts that will get rid of the lumps, growth, weeds, holes, and bumps that often result in poorly cut grass, which will make mowing the lawn much easier when you need to. No matter if you have steep slopes or obstacles in your garden, the experts can get around them. 

Get bigger pots

As a general rule of thumb, big pots are easier to look after than small ones. The smaller the pot, the quicker it dries out and the more watering it will need. Group plants in large pots or use raised planters instead if you have little or no garden soil. Whether your space is big or small, adding plants to your garden makes the space more appealing and also helps you do your bit for the planet.

Buy long-lasting simple plants

Keep planting simple – hardy shrubs and evergreen plants are key. Shrubs are great because they’re long-lived and won’t need replacing every year. Evergreens such as these sedges and hellebores look good all year and drop fewer leaves than deciduous plants. Those labeled as ‘groundcover’ plants are a good choice as they tend to be tough and will knit together to help keep weeds down. Then, choose plants with complementing textures and colors for year-round effect - round glossy leaves next to finely-textured grasses, for example - that way you won’t be needing to put in seasonal bedding plants to add color. 

Expand your garden vertically

Not all gardens or plots of land have the space to expand the garden on the ground level. But, you can still expand if you do so vertically. Climbers are the perfect way to extend your growing space by making the most of walls, fences, or even trees. Self-clinging climbers such as ivy, Virginia creeper, and climbing hydrangea attach themselves onto surfaces (rather than needing wires or trellis to grow up). Paint or stain the surface before planting for a low-maintenance, high-impact look.

Embrace the overgrown look in colder months

Gardening when it’s cold outside is not much fun. Learning to love wildness and imperfection can help you enjoy your low-maintenance garden, and this can be helped by designing your space accordingly. Here, cracks between the uneven paving stones have been colonized by low-growing plants, and the seating area is surrounded by exuberant planting. A weed won’t spoil the scene like they would if the garden was made of formal paving and clipped topiary.