Gardens are a great place where you can spend time with your family making memories and having fun. What’s not so much fun, however, is when you have to spend more time looking after and maintaining your garden rather than being with your family, especially if garden work isn’t on the top of the list of your favourite things to do.
So, how can you spend more time in your garden with your family whilst spending less time caring for it? The answer is a low-maintenance garden that takes all of the hard work away! Sounds good, right?
Well, if you’d like to know more, stay with us to find out some of the features that you can add to your garden that will allow you to do more of the things that you love and less time on your hands and knees in the mud.
Creating a Low Maintenance Garden
Here are the ways and features that will help reduce the amount of time you spent maintaining your garden, allowing you to spend more time doing the things that you love.
Minimise plant variety
The first thing to focus on when creating a low-maintenance garden is the number and type of plants that you have. When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. The fewer plants that you have in your garden, the less time it requires to look after them. You could go all out and remove all the plants you have and replace them with gravel, but if that’s a bit on the extreme side there are still some other options that you can try out.
These include replacing some of your existing, high-maintenance plants with some evergreen shrubs like euonymus or lavender that require far less attention or adding some plant containers to take away the tiresome weeding that comes with regular planting.
Lose the lawn
The second way that you can minimise time spent caring for your garden is to replace your lawn with more time-friendly features. When cared for properly, lawns can look great and make your garden look like something out of a magazine but they do take a whole lot of time and effort to get to that stage. Time and effort you may not have. So, take away the stress that comes with caring for a lawn by replacing it altogether! Here are a few features that can replace your lawn with:
- A gravel path
- A seating area
- Plant beds containing perennials, evergreen shrubs and bulbs
- An artificial lawn!
Deck it out
Another low-maintenance garden feature that you can add is a deck made up of high-quality composite decking boards. Composite decking is a great choice for anyone looking to create a low maintenance garden thanks to its high resistance to stains, scratches and fading. Composite boards never require staining, painting or sealing and often come with warranties that can last up to 30 years, so you’ll never have to worry about replacing or maintaining your deck for three whole decades and can spend more of that time with your family.
These are just a few ideas and examples of easy garden features that you can add to make your outdoor space a little less time-consuming when it comes to care and maintenance. Hopefully, by implementing some of these, you will have a lot more time to spend with your family, making memories that will last a lifetime.
*This is a collaborative post