There is no question: a garden is a lot of work. Sometimes so much that you don't even get around to finally inaugurating the beautiful new terrace. Instead, there is always something to do: the flowers need to be watered, the weeds have to be weeded out again and these cheeky horned violets have really been appearing at every corner of the garden lately. So that you can relax for once, we have put together the best tips for easy-care flower beds for you here.

Perennial perennials save gardening

Less maintenance effort through clever choice of perennials

An easy-care perennial garden starts with the selection of the right plants, after all, some plants require significantly more attention than others. If you don't work much in the flower bed, but only want to plant it and then enjoy it, you should select the perennials according to these criteria:

  • suitable for the location: sunny, semi-shady or shady
  • suitable for the soil conditions: sandy-poor, humic or loamy
  • Native perennials require less care than exotic ones
  • perennial, long-lived perennials prefer annual summer flowers
  • select perennials that bloom

Furthermore, you should limit yourself to a few species, which are not only allowed to bloom lushly, but above all to grow lushly.

Keep the flower bed free of weeds

This also has the advantage that fewer weeds grow: where hydrangeas and co. spread, orchards, goutweed, dandelions and other weeds simply have no more room to grow. Even ground-covering perennials quickly overgrow the flower bed with a flowering carpet. They easily displace any unwanted herb. If you don't want to use sprawling or ground-covering perennials - for example because the flower bed is too small for it - work in a light and air-permeable weed fleece (€21.70) instead or mulch the bed with bark mulch. Once laid out, rock or gravel gardens basically require little attention.

Just let nature take its course

Probably the easiest tip to follow for a low-maintenance flower bed is this: just sit back, relax in your lounge chair and let the garden be your garden. The world will not end if the leaves are not raked (on the contrary, autumn leaves are a valuable winter protection and good fertilizer!) or the horned violets are diligently multiplying themselves. A natural garden may not appear "tidy", but it offers many creatures an important living space, plenty of food and allows its owner to sit back and relax.

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If you want to do as little work as possible, you can also avoid sensitive and not frost-hardy perennials such as dahlias, whose tubers have to be dug up anew every autumn and planted again in spring.

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