While the hard landscaping elements tend to set the scene and define the overall structure of the low maintenance garden, like any other garden, the whole thing only really comes to life with the addition of plants. As a quick visit to any local garden centre makes very clear, there’s [...]
Bulbs are hard to beat in any low maintenance garden – hardy, easy to plant and simple to grow. While many of the usual annuals, bedding plants and perennials of traditional gardens are hard to accommodate in a design intended to minimise the amount of work required to keep things [...]
Although there are many ways to approach low maintenance gardening, there is one feature which is common to all of them – the most successful designs make good use of hard landscaping and easily maintained plants which require little effort to look good. For the modern gardener, advances in the [...]
Trees and shrubs make really good candidates for any low maintenance garden. Once established, they are some of the most undemanding of plants – so you can forget most of the usual ritual of dead-heading, feeding and weeding that goes with most annuals and bedding plants. In addition, they can [...]
The lawn has become the established centre-piece of most gardens for generations – but as anyone who has tried knows, keeping it at its best involves a lot of work. The trick for a low maintenance landscape design is to keep the feel of the traditional lawn, without the relentless [...]
