Low-maintenance landscaping

Not so long ago landscape design and low maintenance landscaping had an idea mainly employees of the palace, garden and park complexes, museums, specialists in art history. But development, as we know, moves in a spiral, and the spiral is spinning ever stronger. What was accessible to only a few is becoming the property of more and more people.

And now the housing of the new nobility and just wealthy people is no longer prestigious, even inappropriate without the appropriate design of the space around the house in the English or Moorish style. The discussion of the merits of this or that style, the differences between the Japanese garden and the Chinese, the possibilities of modernity and techno can be heard in various strata of society. Then the need, demand and hence supply began to “descend into the masses”, to democratize.

Low-maintenance backyard

Now at the service of those wishing to equip a place for physical and mental relaxation, not only a mass of firms, specialty stores and individual professionals, but also a huge number of magazines, publications, websites and forums, allowing to be aware of contemporary fashion, to realize their preferences, to identify opportunities.

Of course, there are many more people with “spacious” estates of less than six hectares than there are oligarchs. Therefore, formed a new trend in landscape design, which works a lot of landscape designers, florists – the so-called low maintenance landscaping. It is attractive to those who will not demolish the top layer of soil, build a complex drainage system, to bring and completely replace the entire soil for planting exotic plants, and will try to use what lives perfectly well in this area on this soil and in the existing water regime.

Low maintenance front yard landscaping

And such a corner, a quiet beautiful place, where you can relax, get away from the daily bustle, from the stressful rhythm of life, not like it was 100 or even 50 years ago, is very necessary for modern people. So it is understandable that many country house owners are trying to find on their land not only a place for pantry and seedbeds with greenery, but also for the low maintenance front yard landscaping or backyard.

Low maintenance yard

For some, such a corner can be a small rock garden or dry creek, or a garden of rocks in the traditions of the Land of the Rising Sun.

For another, the strings of his soul is better served by a small lawn, playing the role of a clearing overgrown with unpretentious simple flowers, bounded by a pair of tall bushes or small trees, in the shadow of which there are benches in the form of stumps.

Flower beds

Many people would prefer to relax near a small pond with water lilies floating on its surface under a plant bent to the water, and for you it will become a low-maintenance backyard landscaping. Arrange such a body of water now is not difficult – a really deep hole do not need to dig, special film coatings of black or blue color for the bottom and walls give a mysterious depth even quite shallow artificial ponds. Instead of films you can use more rigid plastic structures, fortunately they are available in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.

Not so melancholic, but quite romantic corner can be arranged with a pergola, consisting of two or three arches, twined with grapes, vines or climbing roses, wooden or stone benches, surrounded by low-maintenance flowerbeds or vases with favorite flowers.

In any case, to determine what one really wants and what can be realized in the underlying territory, to plan and realize one’s desires is best helped by one’s own sense of beauty, sense of humor and sense of proportion. But you can’t do without special knowledge of landscape design and the opinion of experts from our company “Captain Handy” will help you with low maintenance landscaping in Toronto.

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