Landscapes that need minimum money and time to preserve require thoughtful preparation and installation. Choose structures, plants, ground-coverings and systems that will assist to decrease watering, weeding, trimming, painting and mowing.
Consider Your Available Time
Figure out how much time you invest preserving your yard at various times of the year. Consider mowing, planting, pruning, weeding, watering, raking, snow shoveling and other seasonal tasks. What do you wish to change?
List Your Needs
How do you prepare to use your backyard-- for barbecuing, veggie or flower gardening, kids' play activities or just seeing from the windows? Different activities require various ground surfaces, structures, or plantings.
Pro Tip
Minimize or eliminate your yard. If you have children or take pleasure in lawn video games, about 600 square feet of turf is generally sufficient.
Examine Your Landscape
Make a rough map and list of existing features, such as fences, trees and shrubs, structures and paved surfaces. Keep in mind problem areas, such as poor views, sound, lack of personal privacy, steep slopes or locations where plants grow improperly or water accumulates.
Select Time-Saving Systems & Surfaces
Think about lower-maintenance alternatives to resolve landscape problems, such as an automatic watering system for watering the lawn and garden; a deck, paved outdoor patio, or ground-covering plants instead of a mowed yard; and a fence or vine-covered trellis rather of a clipped hedge. Group shrubs and trees into mulched beds to lower mowing, trimming and watering.
Select Low-Maintenance Plants
Choose just plants that fit the area offered. To reduce planting time, plant Arborist flowering shrubs or perennial plants that grow back each year rather of annuals that just last one season.
Pro Tip
Plant perennials that die to the ground in fall, instead of shrubs, in places where snow accumulates or slides off the roof.
Pick plants with functions that look great in more than one season, such as flowers in spring, handsome leaf color in fall and attractive bark in winter.
Low-Maintenance Plants for Easy Landscaping
Consider these easy-to-grow shrubs, trees, and perennials to create a worry-free structure in your landscape. For each, we've consisted of planting, watering, fertilizing, and pruning suggestions for every gardening zone.
Shrub: Barberry
Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is deer-resistant and deciduous, with thorny stems that make it a good structure plant for increasing house security. Once developed, this compact, dense shrub is drought tolerant. We like the range Sunjoy Tangelo for its brilliant orange brand-new growth that turns chartreuse on the leaf margins as the season progresses.
Some barberries are intrusive and may not be grown in some states. Check with your regional extension service workplace before you plant.
Plant barberry in spring in part sun, or complete sun for the best foliage color, and in wet however well-drained soil. Sunjoy Tangelo grows to 3-4 feet high and wide and is durable in USDA Zones 4-8. Prune to form in summertime, if wanted, and fertilize in spring after the last frost and when new development appears. In all zones, mulch in fall; in Zones 4-5, mulch heavily after the first frost and draw back the mulch in spring.
About Austin Tree Services
Austin Tree Services is a family-owned tree service with over 25-years of experience caring for the natural landscape of communities in Austin. Our goal is to provide exceptional tree service to all residential and commercial clients looking to maintain or improve the natural surroundings of their homes and businesses. We always use the SAFEST tree removal methods for your property's safety, to ensure efficiency, and to promote safety! We strive to save every tree we can, but sometimes tree removal is necessary.
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Austin Tree Services
5555 N Lamar Blvd #111
Austin TX 78751
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