Low-low-maintenance natural landscaping!

User: janotrms@icloud.com

Vendor: Opt in vendor

Action: 32 - Reduce/Replace your Lawn

I am constantly getting compliments on our landscaping - which birds and butterflies and dragonflies and native bees also clearly love - and most of which is very low maintenance! We like the natural variety of green leaves and textures that is the foundation of classic layered ‘English gardens’.

With a few years of weeding and transplanting we have encouraged the spread of oceans of groundcover that now do the work for us! They crowd out weeds, retain soil moisture so no watering is ever needed and also help trees and shrubs survive periods of heat and drought - but perhaps the most amazing part of all is Zero raking or leaf-blowing!!!

It’s as though the ground cover swallows up the leaves and turns them into an annual dose of free fertilizer. Observing how efficiently leaves are ‘disappeared’ by nature during winter and early spring, we no longer even clear leaves off our lawns - nature seems so eager to take care of the leaves when left to do so I wish more people would try it!