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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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.
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.
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.