What is the most low maintenance landscaping?
Opt for low-maintenance ground covers Ground covers like creeping thyme, clover, or sedum are excellent alternatives to grass. These plants are drought-tolerant, require minimal mowing, and add texture and color to your landscape. Gravel is one of the cheapest ground cover options for garden landscaping. It is versatile and allows for good drainage. If you prefer a green ground cover, white clover or thyme are affordable options.Opt for low-maintenance ground covers Ground covers like creeping thyme, clover, or sedum are excellent alternatives to grass. These plants are drought-tolerant, require minimal mowing, and add texture and color to your landscape.Spreading groundcover is the cheapest lawn replacement option. If you can get a couple of good spreading Ceanothus or Rosemary plants going you can cover an entire frontyard with 10-20 plants.
What plants are good for outside all year round?
Evergreen flowering perennials will keep their green foliage all year, long after the blooming season is over. Many herbs are particularly known for being great practical flowering plants with evergreen foliage, such as Lavender, Rosemary, and Salvia, among others. Evergreen shrubs add year-round structure. In winter they really come to the fore, when many other plants have faded into the background. They can be used as a backdrop to borders, clipped into formal shapes, and often make beautiful dense hedges. Popular evergreens include camellias, box, lavenders and holly.Evergreen plants also require little maintenance, able to thrive —and retain their colour— throughout the winter without having to be moved to a warmer spot. Go for shrubs like skimmia japonica, holly, Pieris ‘Flaming Silver’ or lavender (if your doorstep is sunny).Evergreen Shrub. Enjoy bright, vivid color every day of the year with our collection of Wax Wing mirror bush cultivars. As their common name implies, their foliage is extremely glossy and colorful. It’s an ideal plant for growing a low hedge or edging, and it mixes well with other plants in colorful flower gardens.