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The Low-Maintenance Garden
A good-looking garden with a few hours' work a month
Most garden time goes on a handful of jobs: weeding, mowing, watering, deadheading and cutting back. This guide shows you how to make each one take less time, with tough plants that look after themselves, smart use of mulch, and a short list of jobs for each season.
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- What makes a garden low-maintenancepage 3
- Plants that look after themselvespage 4
- Mulch, ground cover and weedspage 5
- Lawns, paths and potspage 6
- Water lesspage 7
- The low-maintenance yearpage 8
Who it's for
- People who love a nice garden but don't have much time
- Anyone who wants fewer jobs as they get older
- Busy households, rented homes and holiday homes
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Five principles of a low-maintenance garden
- Right plant, right place. A plant that suits your sun and soil needs far less help.
- Cover every bit of soil with plants or mulch.
- Fewer kinds, bigger groups. Five big drifts are easier to care for than twenty single plants.
- Evergreens for structure, so the garden looks tidy in winter without work.
- Plan for the size a plant will be in five years, not the size it is in the pot.
Low-maintenance doesn't mean plain. Grasses, long-flowering perennials and evergreen shrubs give colour and movement from spring to winter.
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No. The guide uses grasses, long-flowering perennials and evergreen shrubs, so the garden has colour and movement from spring to winter with only a few jobs a year.
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