As spring blooms, many homeowners and building managers are thinking about how they want their garden to look and whether they need the help of landscaping services to achieve their dreams.
However, a beautiful garden should endure for more than a day, and during the baking heat of the height of summer, ensuring your garden is easy to maintain is as important as how it looks once the groundwork is completed and your horticultural masterpiece is realised.
Not all gardens are created equally in that sense, and if you are willing to commit to designing your garden and taking care of it, then anything is possible.
However, if you are looking for low-maintenance landscapes, here are some of the most common decisions to avoid, and what you can do to make gardening easier for yourself this summer.
Are Lawns Difficult To Maintain?
On the surface, a lawn is pretty simple to maintain; all you need to do is fertilise it, water it, mow it and repeat the cycle as needed throughout the summer.
However, whilst it is simple to maintain, it can take a lot of work; you naturally need a lawnmower, you need to keep on top of it if you want your grass to retain a consistent length, and it requires a lot of power and water to keep going.
This is why there is a growing trend ofrewildinglawns; instead of aggressively mowing lawns, allowing them to grow naturally and using grass seeds native to that region can lead to results that you do not need to manage as aggressively.
Are Water Features Hard To Maintain?
Intricate water fountains, ponds and waterfalls are incredibly dynamic features that cannot help but draw the eye, but they also require an entirely new set of maintenance routines in order to ensure they keep looking their best and can survive harsher conditions.
Dirt, debris and algae can develop over time, particularly if you do not keep on top of maintaining your pumps, filters and other water quality components.
There are ways around this, and some ponds can be designed to work as complete ecosystems, which do not build up algae eyesores that can affect the quality of life for your aquatic life, but this monitoring and management is something to expect when setting up a water feature.
Are Privet Hedges Hard To Maintain?
Every garden needs some kind of privacy screen, and this usually takes the form of either a fence or aprivethedge, but if you want your hedge to maintain its shape and stay in order, you will need to prune it by hand every week or every other week.
In some cases, that’s part of the experience, but if you want to keep your hedges in shape and maintain the types of elegant lines commonly seen in hedge mazes, maintenance can be especially time-consuming and requires knowledge of the specific hedge you are growing.
However, an alternative to this is to choose shrubs that more naturally grow to your desired height and embrace a natural look, which requires less fixing.