Low Maintenance Gardens

1. Scale back the lawn

If you have a large area of grass in your garden, it will need regular feeding, watering and mowing, which all adds up to a lot of time and effort.

You can reduce the size of the lawn area by including some paving, nothing looks better than value for money sandstone paving, and add in some raised borders, and if you want to get rid of a lawn totally there is always artificial grass.

2. Sectionalise the planting areas

Of course its great to have some plants in your garden but if you have them laid out inboxed in areas you won't need to worry about pruning or keeping them in check so much. Garden sleepers are a great way of creating planting boxed areas.

3. Swap flower beds for shrubs

Raised garden beds create a great borderline to any garden. You may be tempted to add in plants into these areas. However by adding in shrubs and hedges will make it a lot more low maintenance.

Just cut back with a hedge trimmer every so often, job done!

4. Think minimalism!

Opting for less doesn't have to mean a lack of style.Instead of masses of greenery, simple stone chippings can look great, create some rustic seating with wood and also with garden sleepers.