Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 2Jun 19, 2010 7:06 pm I have a NO maintenance front garden…..and I mean NO maintenance, all I do is water after I spent quite a while topsoiling and covering with sugar can mulch. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 3Jun 19, 2010 7:21 pm kek, What a great thread! It'll give much reflection for us. No maintenance garden may exist, if u pretend u don't see it or just ignore it and bear it! Yes, maybe a few months, a year or longer. However, if ur neighbour or council couldn't bear it, u still need to deal with it. Even with whole concrete and plastic plants, they still got dust, leaves drop from ur neighboursbirds' poo. Our SIL had not brought anything new to their garden ( bought established hse with some palnts) so basically they didn't need any watering/ weeding. However, they still need to mow their lawn in the backyard. Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 4Jun 19, 2010 8:20 pm Ah, someone has read my rants A fav topic of mine Low maintenance doesn't mean no maintenance. Great feedback and you have summed up really what your landscape becomes... a garden A landscape to me is a two dimensional and somewhat superficial application of a garden. That is the majority of cases. Now the worlds truly great landscapes are exactly that and more. The land has been shaped/scaped and to me that is true landscaping. Thye are not about decking and walls and alfresco areas. They are about water and plants and soil and rocks Natural and therefore true long term beauty. In the modern urban world we are making landscaping more about construction than shaping the land and therefore undervaluing what creating a garden is. Kek you wandered at your leisure picking and pruning. Not being a slave to it. Driving around today I saw so many people working like slaves in the garden in a pointless and futile cycle of work and wasting money. They buy rubbish boring plants that either look good for a few moths after planting or use loads of water or both. They have cheapo couch and that makes nearly every garden in our entire area look like poo more grass in the garden beds than the lawn areas. Bloody couch. They were out there spraying crap onto the beds to kill the grass or I saw one mob who were digging to china to get the sods of couch grass out of the beds. Why would anyone commit themselves to that? Then they say there can't garden. Well no wonder. Folks read the posts here at Homeone and research your plans. Be different. Use better turf or even better still don't use it all. Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 5Jun 19, 2010 8:32 pm Thanks for your words of wisdom, oh Jedi Master..... See? I was listening. Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 7Jun 19, 2010 9:11 pm I've been working like a slave for months now trying to create a low maintenance front garden ! Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 8Jun 19, 2010 9:31 pm Yeah but when it's done it is worth it Like a uni degree or trade certificate. Bloody hard work and costs a bit of money. Thankless too. Then when it is done it is all rewards from then on Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 9Jun 26, 2010 7:50 pm I currently have a no-maintenance, desert-inspired garden. Like true deserts, it is encroaching rapidly into the house. I have a no-maintenance garden but a high-maintenance sweeping regime! My tac-home-ter: Been in 8 months! Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 10Jun 27, 2010 10:28 am ani I currently have a no-maintenance, desert-inspired garden. Like true deserts, it is encroaching rapidly into the house. I have a no-maintenance garden but a high-maintenance sweeping regime! Pics please, ani!! Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 11Jun 27, 2010 11:16 am I've got one of those out the back too ani. Save a heap of water don't they. Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 12Jun 29, 2010 8:03 pm Kek, google "sand" The only plantings are those done by the dogs. Dig and poop, dig and poop... though not necessarily in the same places Wish I could sell bags of dog poo as fertiliser. I'd make a killing! Nothing like a small block to make you realise how much comes out the back end of a dog! Kexkez, I save a heap on watering but these massive downpours we've been having lately have caused water to flow through the garage from the back entrance to the front roller door. When I have proper drainage (very soon!) it will be sorted. Pity one of the first days I moved in we had heaps of rain and the bottoms of some of my boxes in the garage got wet. Had to rescue the spare carpet too before it got too soggy! Can't WAIT for a garden! My tac-home-ter: Been in 8 months! Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 13Jun 29, 2010 10:50 pm Sand and dog poop wasn't quite what I was visualising.... Looking for some advice on pool surround planting. We have roughly 500mm wide garden bed around the edge of our pool. Depth of the bed is only around 250-300mm to top… 0 3875 4 6201 If you can calculate the reasonable charged head from let's say 100mm below the gutter to the top of where the vertical riser's horizontal discharge pipe will be, that… 11 17539 |