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How to Create a Beautiful Low Maintenance Garden

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">We all love the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;tips-designing-garden&sol;">idea of a gorgeous garden<&sol;a>&comma; teeming with plants and flowers&comma; maybe even with a vegetable patch&period; However&comma; the idea and the reality of this type of garden are quite different&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Looking after a garden isn’t an easy job&semi; it takes constant care and attention&comma; and for a lot of us&comma; it just isn’t possible to carve out the time in between working&comma; caring for the kids&comma; and actually having a little bit of time to relax&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you design your garden so that it is low maintenance&comma; you can have a beautiful outdoor space to enjoy that takes considerably less work&period; Let’s take a look at some ways to keep your garden low maintenance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Limit how many different types of plants you have<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Limiting the number of different species of plants you have has a couple of benefits when you’re aiming to create a low maintenance garden&period; Firstly&comma; it makes it much easier to tell which is a plant and which is a weed&excl; Anything that isn’t one of your chosen plant species is probably a weed and can therefore be disposed of&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Secondly&comma; it means that you only need to learn how to take care of a few species of plants&comma; which is much easier than trying to keep track of hundreds&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Reduce or remove your lawn<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Lawns take a huge amount of maintenance&period; Between mowing them&comma; keeping them watered&comma; and removing moss and weeds&comma; it’s something that can become a headache&period; This is particularly true if your lawn is large&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you want to make your garden low maintenance&comma; consider replacing your lawn with gravel&comma; or alternatively&comma; you could reduce the lawn&&num;8217&semi;s size and convert some of it into <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;patiofactory&period;com&period;au&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Patios<&sol;a> or decking&period; This also has the added bonus of giving you a nice level space on which to put outdoor seating or sun loungers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Borders<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One job that never seems to end when you’re gardening is weeding&excl; So if you want to create a low maintenance garden&comma; it makes sense to find a way to stop as many weeds from growing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">According to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rhs&period;org&period;uk&sol;advice&sol;profile&quest;PID&equals;833" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Royal Horticultural Society &lpar;RHS&rpar;<&sol;a>&comma; replacing your perennials with shrubs means that you can line your borders with a weed-suppressing membrane&comma; through which shrubs can grow&period; You can lay mulch or chippings on top of the membrane&period; It’s unlikely that weed spores will take hold in the mulch&comma; and after beds are established&comma; they probably won’t require much watering&comma; either&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Another great thing about replacing perennials with shrubs is that there won’t be so much work required to trim them back&comma; as shrubs are pretty adept at managing themselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Watering<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Finally&comma; for a truly low maintenance garden&comma; you can’t go wrong with automatic sprinklers&excl; These sprinklers will do the job of keeping your plants hydrated so that all you will need to do is relax and enjoy your garden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Just be sure to check in on your plants every now and then to ensure that they are all getting the water they need&period; It can take a few tries to get your sprinklers lined up in the right places&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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