13 Tips for a Low Maintenance Landscape (+Mistakes to Avoid)

Hi Amy! So great to meet you – What a wonderful video, you are great on camera and I love all of your simple but very helpful landscape design tips, photos and graphics. I'm definitely subscribing and will be watching lots more!

Good tips about reducing lawn and adding low water/native plants – much easier to take care of and watering isn't a issue! I also love your tip about reducing containers, I keep adding more pots every year, and the hand watering here in Denver is definitely more demanding! I don't want to mess with irrigation for the pots. However, my peppers did awesome in pots so I may keep doing that! I think they like the warmth of pots, plus the new loamier potting soil.

I planted beach strawberry (native to our area) as ground cover and its living green mulch, no need to mulch again.

Great tips!❤

i urge everyone to combine two of your tips: plant decorative grasses or sedges, BUT- native ones! there are native grasses and sedges (or cultivars of them) that are as shoy as you can ask for... and non invasive.

A well done moodboard helps to sell the proyect fast.💯

Great tips, especially the one on container gardening.
I have a tendency to overdo here, even though most of the time I will plant perennials that will go into the garden in the fall. Still takes a lot of time to water.
I am definitely cutting down on planters this year. Will only use my largest ones that don't need to be watered every day.

Great job

Thanks for the helpful info!

I’m in the process of digging out 30 year old wisteria. It was confined to a tall pole, but takes time. Can’t wait to put an evergreen in its place!

Your Tips are SO Helpful, Thank You! Just planted 2 Japanese Blueberry trees in the front yard off the swale. Facing the Home, I spaced them so they grow together overhead as an arch to the main door to the house, giving depth and frame to the main door. I love Japanese Blueberry trees, they're like giant Bonsais. Already thinking about the Layering phase! 😃

Not sure how containers make more work in the garden. 🤔 I absolutely love that I didn’t need to dig holes to enjoy all my plants, and I never have to weed my potted perennials and annuals. Win-win!

Thank you for another great helpful video. A few months ago, I put small pots with annuals between my young shrubs to give some color and fill in the spots while the shrubs fill in. It has been a pain in the arce to monitor the pots and sometimes water them twice a day due to the hot summer weather. Your video made me ask myself, is the maintenance and payoff worth it? Maybe not.

Great video Amy! TY!

Love your video. I found it very helpful. Thanks

Landscape??? More like garden dont you think

Great video. We are relandscaping at the moment!! Using all these tips as we live on 10acres. So low maintenance is ideal!!

Awesome tips, thanks!!

This is an excellent list.

Love this list, thank you!