| Planning and planting a beautiful garden that stays | | | | require more and there are perennials that require |
| beautiful year after year with a minimum of effort | | | | less maintenance. By choosing perennials that doesn't |
| doesn't have to be hard, and doesn't require a | | | | require fertilizing, pruning or other time consuming |
| professional as long as you think about a few things. | | | | care you can minimize the maintenance your garden |
| 1. The climate where you live | | | | need and by choosing drought resistant plants you |
| The easiest way to create a garden that stay | | | | can reduce the work needed even more. You should |
| beautiful year after year is to use perennial plants. | | | | however always remember to choose plants for |
| Perennial plants are plants that can survive the winter | | | | beauty and not only for their hardiness. You want to |
| where you live and that return each year bigger and | | | | create a low maintenance garden but this doesn't |
| more beautiful than the year before. You do | | | | mean that the garden you create shouldn't be a |
| however have to know which plant zone you live in | | | | spectacular stunning garden. |
| to be able to choose plants that are able to survive | | | | 4. Planting the plants |
| the winters and the climate where you live. A plant | | | | When you have decided which type of garden you |
| that can survive the winter in Florida might of course | | | | want and which plants you want it's time to plant |
| not survive in New York, since the winters are much | | | | those plants and there are a few things to think |
| harsher in the New York area than they are in Florida. | | | | about if you want a low maintenance garden. The |
| You can find out your plant zone online or at your | | | | first thing you should think about is the height of the |
| local garden store. | | | | plants you are going to plants. Always make sure to |
| 2. The type of garden you want | | | | plant the highest plants behind the lower plants. This |
| Knowing which type of garden you want is essential | | | | way all plants gets light and you won't have to prune |
| if you want to plan a low maintenance garden. It | | | | plants that have grown to big for its neighbours. It |
| enables you to build towards your ultimate goal with | | | | also good to plant plants that require a lot of water |
| your garden right from the start and make choosing | | | | together as you this way only have to water this |
| plants much easier. You might not want the same | | | | smaller area as opposed to the entire garden. It is a |
| plants in a fruit garden that you want in a Japanese | | | | good idea to make sure to plant everything in high |
| style garden. You might also want your entire garden | | | | quality soil, this will not only give the plants the best |
| in a certain color and the earlier you take decisions | | | | possible start but will also mean that you won't have |
| like these the better the result will be. | | | | to add fertilizer anytime soon. Make sure to water |
| 3. Choosing the right plants | | | | the plants excessively once planted to give them a |
| If you want a low maintenance garden you should | | | | good start. |
| make sure to plant low maintenance plants in it. | | | | When the plants are planted you can sit back and |
| Perennials are as earlier mentioned good as they | | | | look forward to a low maintenance garden that only |
| return year after year but there are perennials that | | | | gets more and more beautiful as time progress. |