For anyone who loves gardens but hates gardening, the idea of a maintenance-free version has enormous appeal.
Whether you’re a DIY aficionado or into some serious property development, it’s a big mistake to neglect the ‘outdoor room’: there are few sights more off-putting to visitors or potential buyers than overgrown, tatty, unloved gardens.
Whether you’ve got architects revamping your property or you’re about to get stuck in to some painting, decorating or plastering indoors, here are some ideas for creating a stylish, genuinely low maintenance garden that’ll looking great all year round. I
If your idea of gardening is a quick sweep once in a while, building a low maintenance garden is a must.
If you don’t especially want a tennis court or a football pitch in your garden, assuming it’s that large anyway, you can afford to start visually carving it up into zones without making it look smaller.
Simple lines using different materials and colours can work wonders, and the boundaries can be softened with judicious planting with no maintenance plants like ‘verbena’.
Bamboo can also be a good choice: it looks the same all year round, but pot it before you sink it into the ground, or it’ll send shoots through your gravel and paving.
When choosing materials for hard landscaping, don’t be afraid to be adventurous with colour combinations; slate gray tiles and skelpings can look stylish and classy next to red-stained decking and salmon-pink gravel, especially with a row of verbena between them.
Box hedging planted in a block can add a splash of low-maintenance panache to an otherwise featureless paved area.
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