How to Plan a Low Maintenance Landscape

Having a front or backyard can be both exciting and challenging. Hence, it’s exciting because you have a space to use and adorn. Yet, the hard thing to do is decide how you can achieve a pleasing landscape while not spending most of your time in it. Also, having a low-maintenance landscape will satisfy you and your needs while not wearing you out. Therefore, you have to know how to create a great landscape plan.

Ways on planning your low maintenance landscape:

1. Observe and assess your space

Your area will always be there, so make sure to identify issues that might be present within your landscape. Therefore, the first step is to be realistic. Look at the space you have. Is it big or small? Can it contain the features you want in your mind? 

Try drawing your landscape and its existing features. Consider the following:

• Family/pets. How family or pet-friendly is your landscape? What is your family’s lifestyle as a whole and individually? See how your pets join in the landscape.
• Privacy and security are important in a low-maintenance landscape. Is it a place where you can enjoy your privacy and where you feel secure? Does it have steep or uneven slopes?
• Basic features. Observe your landscape’s exposure to sun, rain, and wind. Also, see if the view from the inside of the house is clear, good or bad. Also, consider the noise in the area.
• Structural features. Check out the present fence, garden beds, pathways, or entryways. Do you also have a barbecue grill?
• Decorative features. Your area might have a pond or waterfall. Identify your present plants like trees, groundcovers, and shrubs.

2. List your needs 

Moreover, even if it is a low maintenance landscape, it should still satisfy what you demand. What do you need from your landscape? What should you add or remove from it? List down the features or functionality you require from your landscape, such as a meeting area, a flower garden, a lounging area pool, and a barbecue grill. Therefore, if you have kids, you might consider giving them space to run and play like a playground or just an empty lawn. Different needs call for other designs.

3. Consider your available time

Think of how often you spend your time cleaning, planting, watering, mowing, pruning, and other house chores. Do you want to lessen the time you are allotting for those tall grass or shrubs? Ask yourself how much input you can give to the landscape. Also, to achieve a low maintenance landscape, know when and where to invest your time and effort. 

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4. Gather suggestions and ideas

Furthermore, it’s relieving to know that you are here identifying how to plan your landscape. There are a bunch of helpful ideas and suggestions in opting for a low maintenance landscape, and here are some examples: 

Choose low-maintenance plants.

A low-maintenance landscape calls for low-maintenance plants and shrubs. You can also consider grass that does not require mowing or artificial grass or lawn. Additionally, opting for perennial plants will also lessen your worries.

Choose time-saving systems and surfaces.

Using mulch is ideal as it protects your soil from weeds and erosion, and later on, as it breaks down, it will give nutrients to the soil, extending its benefit to the plants. However, if you do not want to waste time preparing or buying mulch, consider using crushed stone as a substitute. Having an irrigation system can also save your time in watering the plants.

• Personalize your landscaping stones.
• Use a big container such as a rain barrel to store rainwater. This choice is resourceful and eco-friendly.
• Build a thick foundation of stone or cement to avoid weeds breaking out of it. By this, you are avoiding future weed-pulling out sessions and releveling your ground.
• Choose a native and a climate-specific plant. If the plant is accustomed to the place, it won’t have to adjust much or suffer from unfamiliar elements.
• Remove fallen leaves. Hence, if your grass is covered in such leaves, it will rot. Remember that something about to decay (like fallen leaves) might infect other healthy plants.
• Know what to avoid, such as large specimen plants, fast-growing hedges, and temporary plantings.

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Take Note:

Make sure to include these helpful suggestions into your plan for less hassle maintenance in the future.

Staying in a pleasant yet low maintenance landscape reduces our stress. It could be the stress from work, personal life, or pressure for putting too much time in arranging a landscape and maintaining a garden. Looking at those greens and floras gives delight to our eyes. If appropriately maintained, the landscape binds families and neighborhoods together.