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Practical Landscaping
Now let us be practical. Everyone wants a beautiful garden and landscape, and they want it yesterday. Many go out and purchase hybrids that will grow at fantastic speeds, never once giving thought of the consequences.
For example, think of how large some of your planting choices will be at full maturity. Will they need continual pruning to keep from creating damage to your property? Will they grow over drives and walkways? Will they block the view from your windows, or make entering your doors difficult? Scary thought but can a burglar hide behind them. Think ahead! Consider the maintenance that will be involved. For landscaping, start only with your large "foundation" plants. Use dwarf varieties around your walkways, and buy perennials, or bulbs instead of annuals. This saves you time and money, as they come back every year, as bulbs also multiply each year.
There are many timesaving ideas to keep in mind. They can help you keep your maintenance down, by designing and caring for your yard a little bit at a time.
Here is a good list to follow. You may print this out.
Use the right tool for the job.
Choose plants suited for your site.
On a steep, hard-to-mow slope, build terraces to break the slope into steps.
Do not struggle with sparse, weedy grass weeding, under trees, surround trees with beds of shade loving plants.
Avoid using sharp angles or fussy curves when planning flowerbeds. It makes mowing around them easier.
Reduce lawn to mow, and use low maintenance ground cover, or install decking.
Choose disease free insect resistant, trees and plants.
Plant inclines with groundcovers. Creeping thyme is good and very fragrant.
Choose plants, which do not have messy droppings, such as seedpods, sap, or large flowers.
Use a mulching lawn mower. Remember grass clippings are high in nitrogen, and our plants love it. I will add this link below, as our suggested reading for this article. It is a wealth of information and written in layman terms for easy understanding and instructions. Thank you for reading, and we will add more garden and landscape articles for your learning pleasure; so please check back soon.
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