The Zero Maintenance Myth: Plants That Actually Survive
Paving your whole garden to avoid weeding just leaves you with a grey yard. Learn how blockwork planters and tough plants give you a garden without the actual gardening.
No Maintenance
When we turn up to quote a job, the first thing we usually hear is, "I just want no maintenance." People are sick of the mower and sick of the weeding.
The standard quick-fix is to just pave the whole lot. And yeah, it definitely gets rid of the weeds. But if you slab it edge-to-edge, you haven't got a garden anymore. You've just got a massive grey yard.
Trap the Green
You need some green to break it up, you just need to control it.
We don't dig muddy borders, and we don't mess around with cheap pots that blow over. We build solid blockwork planters right into the patio. We render them and cap them with stone.
Because they are raised and contained, the soil stays locked in. It doesn't wash out all over your clean slabs when it rains, and the weeds can't spread across the garden.
Tough Plants
Then it comes down to what you actually plant. Forget delicate stuff you have to feed and water every night.
Put in tough, heavy plants, olive trees, hardy palms, thick grasses. Plant them, ignore them, and they survive the frost. They don't care if you forget to water them. You get a proper garden look without doing the actual gardening.
Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.
