What began as a set of insights aimed at making gardening life easier for Seniors, has now evolved into a far more generally-applicable set of systems which make life easier for any gardener at all. A glance over the items listed below can inform absolutely anyone about labor and money-saving methods of gardening.
1. Less Turf, Lawn Edging
By cutting down the area of lawn we are faced with continually maintaining, we free up land for other purposes which can work delightfully as flowery or shrub-established adjuncts to the gorgeous green swaths of shaped lawns, reduced to design assets in shape and color. The edgings we install also circumvent the old plague of ‘Grass Imperialism’ and it’s constant urge to expand by rhizome to beds and neighbour’s land.
2. Better Plant Selection
More “appropriate” plantings mean some specific planning involving shape, longevity, the tendencies of plants to stain and mess things up underneath, root issues near cement and hard-scaping structures. So often, we have seen designs based on a speedy growth effect, particularly in newer subdivisions and developments, where people seem embarrassed to be “new”. There is nothing at all wrong with delaying size for a year or two while slower-growing but far-more-appropriate plantings can settle in and accommodate nicely.
3. Raised beds
While not necessarily a completely widespread feature, we see the advantages of raised bed planting more and more as food sources become more popular results from our own gardens. The elevations of raised garden beds allow the production of new soil inside the beds, isolating a deep concern any more over issues such as lost minerals from store-bought foods and the ability to determine a perfect growing medium, right at home. The shapes and sizes available with the many varieties of raised planting bed possibilities are off the chart, especially with the advent of new recycled plastic products.
4. Ground Covers And Mulches
Wonderful new species are developed yearly providing yet new varieties, colors and shapes of aggressive and weed-preventing ground covers. These gorgeous plantings can act as their own mulches over time and have the ultimate virtue of being transplant-able and gorgeous.
Needless to say, the array of mulches engineered to hold in water for plants and to prevent weeds from taking root are an entire field of their own, encompassing rocks, rubber, and wood chips, among a zillion other products, all geared to make gardening easier.
5. Smaller and More Dwarf Tree Species
In another surprising and extremely exciting development in plant and tree hybridization, the numbers of gorgeous varieties of weeping and dwarf trees - many of whom sport stunning blooms - are developed annually. Our sense of space can accept these smaller varieties in the struggle for beauty as we place them alongside formerly impossible arrangements. That many of these also produce fruit is yet another strange but enhancing development.
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