Low Maintenance Landscaping

Everyone wants to impart an image makeover to their gardens and landscapes along with decking up the interiors of their houses. So landscape gardening has become as popular as interior designing.

But unlike interior designing, maintenance and proper sustenance of landscaped gardens can be an uphill task for many and an extremely time consuming endeavor.

Busy executives and corporate honchos and doctors might have the means to afford exotic landscaped gardens created by professional landscape designers, but not the time to look after and take care of their visually stunning gardens or patios.

That is why in this article I shall provide a few tips for low maintenance landscaping that will come to the aid of those who are time-strapped or face a time-crunch because of their busy work schedules.

The first and foremost thing to remember in case of low maintenance landscaping is – KEEPING IT SIMPLE. Complicated designs might look fetching and make your house the centre of everybody’s awe struck attraction, but such difficult to maintain designs might fall apart due to negligence or irregular care.

Surely you don’t want to land up with an expensively decorated garden that looks like a war ravaged ruin due to lack of maintenance? Go for decorations that are easy to take care of.

Exotic plants will make your landscape look stunning but they can die out fast in the absence of proper handling. It is better to go for beautiful local/native plants, which are cheaper to purchase, easily available and can adapt to the environment and native climate with ease.

Instead of manually removing snow, invest in snowmelt systems.

Set up an automatic irrigation system right from the very beginning and forget all about the woes of irrigating your garden at regular intervals. They are now pretty affordable nowadays.

If you don’t want to be troubled by weed control, erosion and other such high maintenance unwanted activates, it is profitable to invest in inorganic and organic mulch which can also conserve water, lower soil temperatures close to the roots of plants and conserve moisture.

Larger the garden, the more difficult it is to maintain. The golden rule is to KEEP IT SMALL. A smaller garden doesn’t mean you have to compromise with style, decoration and variety. Besides they emanate cozy and intimate warmth.

Please do not opt for hundreds of varieties of plants or over planting as this will simply add on to extra burdens. There should be enough space between each plant to allow them some space for growing freely.