"low maintenance" yards, pictures, and ideas...
My Front Yard Perennial Garden in Ontario
Owner: Location:About five years ago, we decided to replace our front lawn with a perennial garden. Our yard is quite shady, and growing grass was a constant struggle. The new front yard garden is filled with low maintenance perennials such as daylilies, hostas, hydrangeas, coneflowers and various ground covers....
Backyard Backlash
Owner: R.B. Location: FairfieldThere's concrete here, broke up there, a light that doesn't work, a huge gumball with a vine gone crazy in it, and a slope that will be a mud slide if we ever get rain. What a disaster! Can you give me some ideas? I need to keep it kid friendly and very low maintenance... and low budget... What am ...
The Garden of Eat'n
Owner: divaqs Location: RentonIn 2003 I bought my house with ½ acre of land and quickly launched an ongoing project of re-landscaping my yard with all edibles. My neighbors were alarmed when I dug up my front yard and began making dramatic changes. One neighbor came over to ask me what I was doing and after hearing that I was...
front yard
Owner: meredith Location: NewcastlePlan for future: Front fence, possible new driveway, replace existing carport, replace existing window covers. Low maintenance, easy care...
An experiment with growth and design
Owner: Headstrong Hound Location: Baton rougeI'm new to starting anything from seeds, and also to bulbs. I started my voyage into this brave new world, and there's no turning back now. I relied on a few petunias, and roses to serve as my old faithfuls, just in case this year turned up brown thumb. I put in a second tier to the flower bed ...
Lowering Yard Maintenance
Owner: Donna F. Location: GreenvilleThis year I replace some areas with River Rocks - they look great - are certainly low maintenance and help greatly with water control coming down the hill. Switched to pine needles instead of black mulch. Dye would run off and into the pool!...
Bad space transformed
Owner: The Lockwood's Location: Tigard, ORWe had struggled for 2 years with our very small back yard. No sun, mushy, muddy strip of grass. I wanted to make the space useable for entertaining with low maintenance. See before and after shots....
Small Space - Low Maintenance
Owner: Becky Gregory Location:This is the back yard of a home that will probably become a rental property. The existing patio was several inches higher than all the ground around it. The challenge was to add additional patio space and blend the two together. Plants are yet to be added in the upper bed and the awning post...
Renovation & updates
Owner: Premium Aquascapes Location: New MilfordThe client requested that we renovate an existing cement waterfeature on their property. Low maintenance was a must. So we designed a feature that contains 95' of stream with a total of 15' in elevation changes, a 6 x 8 pond at the base of the main falls flows into a 8' x 16' pond, then under a ...
RWH SYSTEM
Owner: Premium Aquascapes Location: New MilfordThis is a low maintenance eco friendly yard. The main feature is a Rain Water Harvesting system that captures and filters 800 gallons of runoff from the roof. The feature overflows into a rain garden planting area that provides additional filtration prior to excess water running into the public sto...
