Low maintenance gardens

If your garden is proving too big, concrete is one solution, but what if you still want the pleasure of a garden but without the hefty demands?

By Xanthe White In Gardens

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28th October, 2011

If you’re building a house using good plans, the end result is pretty much guaranteed. Before you start building, it’s important to have finalised all the details, because making spontaneous changes may not be worth the costs involved in having to resubmit your plans to the council. When it comes to gardens, we have more freedom. We don’t need permission to plant a tree or plan a hedge, and we can chop and change to our heart’s content. But we don’t have complete control of the outcome, either; the trees may not blossom as expected, and one or two hedgerow shrubs may die, leaving unwanted ...

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