Posted by admin on June 6th, 2010
Before you begin buying plants and flowers for your easy maintenance garden, you might want to do a little bit more research in order to make sure that you get things absolutely spot on. If you want to do this, there are many books available to buy that can help, here are two good garden books to get you started.
1. Gardening All-in-One for Dummies – You’ve probably all heard of the “Dummies” range of books. This books lays out everything you need to know about creating your low maintenance garden in a really easy to read format. This book is available for Amazon for around $15 – $20 and we would highly recommend that you buy it as you will really learn a lot from it.
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Posted by admin on May 13th, 2010
Just because you don’t have a lot of time to spend on making your garden look nice and looking after it, doesn’t mean that it can’t look stunning. There are certain types of plants and flowers that are extremely low maintenance and take next to no time at all to look after and care for. In this article we have listed a few of these plants and we hope that you will agree that you don’t have to spend all day, every day in order to make your garden look fantastic.
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Posted by admin on April 11th, 2010
Plants that require little attention through the year and are generally disease and pest resistant are the ones to include in a low-maintenance garden. There is enough choice to ensure interest and plenty of color at all times.
Graceful Grasses For Year-Round Interest
Perennial grasses are easy plants. Once planted, they require very little attention, except occasional removal of dead foliage and old flower heads if they offend. Cutting back the dead foliage to ground level in early spring will encourage lots of new growth.
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Posted by admin on April 11th, 2010
Plants that self-seed freely around the garden can be a nuisance if they germinate in the wrong place, because then you have to spend time pulling them up. However, if they are in the right place they can be a labor-saving boon to the gardener.
You will have to sow self-seeders initially, of course. Decide on a position where the plants can multiply freely without becoming a nuisance. Suitable places are among shrubs and herbaceous plants, especially in a mixed bed, or in beds restrained by clear boundaries, such as a bed in a lawn. Sow only into well-prepared ground that is completely free of weeds. You may have to weed twice initially to ensure clear soil.
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