Flowers and Garden

Garden of low or low maintenance

• Less lawn.

• Less flower beds. A few seasonal flowers and bulbs.

• Less hedges and edging geometric (requiring between 2 and 5 cuts per year).

• If you do not want to dispense with hedges, use the free or low growing plants (conifers, boxwood, or viburnum) at their annual cut 1 may be sufficient, unlike privet, honeysuckle or leylandi.

• More native plants, which need less irrigation, less fertilizer and less pesticide treatments.

• Planting Cactus and other Crasas.

• Planting resistant shrub masses: Oleander, Rosemary, Mastic …

• Trees and evergreen shrubs throw less waste. In winter, the garden will not be so desolate or terrace.


Garden of low or low maintenance

An introduction to low maintenance is:

• Make a good land preparation, plowing, pulling weeds and fertilizing with manure organic matter type.

• Laying of drip irrigation lines.

• Cover the floor with a cloth or plastic film antihierbas bored.

• Planting.

• Cover the surface with any of these materials: pine bark, gravel, marble, crushed red tile, red or black volcanic rock, saule …


Less flower beds

• The raised beds make work easier. The plant maintenance is much more convenient because it allows work at higher altitudes. The edges can be made of brick, railway sleepers, logs, etc. .. Practice holes to allow drainage.

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