Landscapes that need minimum money and time to keep require thoughtful preparation and setup. Choose structures, plants, ground-coverings and systems that will help to reduce watering, weeding, cutting, painting and mowing.
Consider Your Available Time
Figure out how much time you invest preserving your yard at various times of the year. Consider mowing, planting, pruning, weeding, watering, raking, snow shoveling and other seasonal tasks. What do you wish to change?
List Your Needs
How do you prepare to use your backyard-- for barbecuing, veggie or flower gardening, kids' play activities or just seeing from the windows? Different activities require various ground surfaces, structures, or plantings.
Pro Tip
Minimize or eliminate your yard. If you have children or take pleasure in lawn video games, about 600 square feet of turf is normally sufficient.
Examine Your Landscape
Make a rough map and list of existing features, such as fences, trees and shrubs, structures and paved surfaces. Keep in mind issue areas, such as bad views, noise, absence of privacy, high slopes or locations where plants grow improperly or water collects.
Select Time-Saving Systems & Surfaces
Think about lower-maintenance options to solve landscape issues, such as an automated irrigation system for watering the yard and garden; a deck, paved patio area, or ground-covering plants instead of a mowed lawn; and a fence or vine-covered trellis rather of a clipped hedge. Group shrubs and trees into mulched beds to reduce mowing, trimming and watering.
Select Low-Maintenance Plants
Pick only plants that fit the space offered. All of us tend to underestimate how quickly and how big a little nursery plant will become. To decrease planting time, plant blooming shrubs or seasonal plants that grow back each year instead of annuals that only last one season. Choose plants that grow in your soil, sun and climate.
Pro Tip
Plant perennials that pass away to the ground in fall, instead of shrubs, in places where snow collects or moves off the roofing.
Pick plants with functions that look excellent in more than one season, such as flowers in spring, good-looking leaf color in fall and appealing bark in winter season.
Low-Maintenance Plants for Easy Landscaping
Think about these easy-to-grow shrubs, trees, and perennials to develop a carefree structure in your landscape. For each, we've consisted of planting, watering, fertilizing, and pruning ideas for every single gardening zone.
Shrub: Barberry
Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is deer-resistant and deciduous, with tough stems that make it a great foundation plant for increasing home security. Once established, this compact, dense shrub is dry spell tolerant. We like the range Sunjoy Tangelo for its intense orange brand-new growth that turns chartreuse on the leaf margins as the season progresses.
Some barberries are invasive and may not be grown in some states. Check with your regional extension service workplace prior to you plant.
Plant barberry in spring in part sun, or full sun for the finest foliage color, and in wet however well-drained soil. In all zones, mulch in fall; in Zones 4-5, mulch heavily after the first frost and pull back the mulch in spring.
About Austin Tree Services
Austin Tree Services is a family-owned tree service with over 25-years of experience caring for the natural landscape of communities in Austin. Our goal is to provide exceptional tree service to all residential and commercial clients looking to maintain or improve the natural surroundings of their homes and businesses. We always use the SAFEST tree removal methods for your property's safety, to ensure efficiency, and to promote safety! We strive to save every tree we can, but sometimes tree removal is necessary.
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Austin Tree Services
5555 N Lamar Blvd Landscape Company #111
Austin TX 78751
512-982-4843
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