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Garden Design - Low Maintenance Gardens
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Low Maintenance Tips 1

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Do without a lawn if you can
to avoid having to mow it. Grass is the most economical ground cover
so this will not be a cheap option. Alternatively, reduce the
grass area as much as you can. A must if there are children around and a good lawn is the perfect
foil for other planting.
Consider other surfaces.
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Lay a "mowing strip" all around
the lawn against beds / buildings etc. This is a strip of bricks
or narrow paving at the same level as the grass so that when you
mow, the mower gives a good edge without having to strim. Again,
not a cheap option as the edge needs to be firmly footed to stop
grass and weeds growing between the bricks.
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If you plant roses, then use shrub
or species types, these are more resistant to disease than others,
don't require constant dead-heading and are lower maintenance all
round. Avoid "hybrid tea" roses.
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Design
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If you do use containers;
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Avoid conifers,
these are particularly susceptible to drying out. If they do dry
out, they don't give any warning by wilting, they just look exactly
the same but slowly turn brown. By the time they show they're in
trouble, it's too late, there's no going back.
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Low Maintenance Tips 2
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Increase
the number of drought-resistant plants in your garden e.g.
Trees: Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree), hollies, Cordyline
australis, pines, Robinia pseudoacacia; Shrubs; Artemesia,
Cytisus (broom),
Escallonia, Euphorbia characias, Hebes, Perovskia,
Rosemary; perennials; Achillea, Echinacea purpureum, Eryngium,
Gazania, Nepeta, Lavender.
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