Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 2Jun 19, 2010 7:06 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Low maintenance gardening - what does that MEAN? 7Jun 19, 2010 9:11 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie 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 3878 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 17540 |