The self-perpetuating garden will remain an illusion for the foreseeable future. With a little planning skill, you can create a blooming paradise that is very easy to care for. The secret of success lies in the right mix of undemanding plants, easy-care design elements and a good portion of serenity.

A weed fleece saves weeding

Say goodbye to weeding - this is how it works

The occasional patrol with the watering can or the occasional handing out of compost does not deter a gardener. However, when stubborn weeds keep sprouting, daily weeding is extremely nerve-wracking. We therefore associate a low-maintenance garden primarily with a weed-free, green realm. Therefore, if you are creating or designing a garden, you should not miss the following options:

  • Lay a stable weed fleece (€21.70) under topsoil and plant soil
  • Plant beds with ground covers, such as medlar (Cotoneaster dammeri) and periwinkle (Vinca minor)
  • Pave paths and terraces with weed-repellent joint sand
  • Create beds as gravel beds

If you combine a weed control fabric with a mole screen, your low-maintenance garden will be protected from hill-climbing moles and voracious voles.

The best easy-care plants for the garden - a selection

Give preference to native perennials in the planting plan. Every autumn they retreat into the ground on their own, survive the winter undamaged and appear in all their glory the following spring, as if by magic. Combine ornamental trees as scaffolding that are not to be pruned or only pruned for aesthetic reasons. The following selection provides you with recommended plants for the easy-care garden:

  • Bulb flowers for the spring garden, like snowdrops (Galanthus) and crocuses (Crocus)
  • Wild perennials, such as bellflowers (Campanula carpatica) or wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa)
  • Perennials with long flowering periods, such as cranesbill (Pelargonium) and coneflowers (Echinacea)
  • Evergreen flowering shrubs such as rhododendron and firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea)
  • Ornamental grasses that are easy to care for, such as diamond grass (Calamagrostis brachytricha) and mountain reed grass (Calamagrostis varia)
  • Ornamental trees that require little pruning, such as Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) or ornamental cherries (Prunus)

In a low-maintenance garden, you don't have to do without lavish flowering flower boxes (€16.99). The time-consuming effort usually results from the daily cleaning of withered flowers. By simply planting self-cleaning balcony flowers, maintenance is reduced to watering when it's dry. We recommend trailing petunias and geraniums, which shed all that is wilted and faded on their own.

tips

Lawn is one of the most demanding components in a garden's maintenance program. Weekly mowing is far from enough for a velvety green carpet. Care is only complete when you fertilize regularly, scarify, sand, lime and aerate at least once a year. So consider a lawned garden the next time you redecorate your property.

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Garden design