Landscape design is a slow game. It’s also an expensive one. So today I’m sharing 13 landscaping tips to get you free plants! Design an affordable front yard landscape with these helpful ideas to plant your house landscape on a budget.
When we moved into this home two years ago, we had zero front yard landscaping. On top of that, we added an addition and had 900 sq ft of bare soil that was in poor condition. See how I’m landscaping my home, basically for free with these landscaping tips!
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Great tips! Thanks for sharing 😊
So agree about landscape fabric!
I can't stand the weed block fabric! Horrible! I use Preen every 3-4 months, and it works great for me.
I love this! I also get seed packets of the perennials that’s I eventually want and sprinkle them. The ones that survive I then have transplanted and divided over the years. Also a long haul plan, but cost effective
Grab divisions from willing friends and family.
Can you show us how to divide hosta s
Great video with smart tips!
Great tips! TY
Really glad I found your channel, thank your for your inspiring video.
Hey one idea (although I’ve not tried myself) I saw on YouTube is painting your concrete porch – you can do whatever pattern you want or use stencils to make it look like tile, etc. Good luck and great work!
I’ve had great success in rooting more hydrangeas by “burying “ part of a low branch, weighting it down with a rock and just leaving it there until roots form under the rock. Then you just cut it off from the mother plant and voila….a new hydrangea. Forsythias do this all on their own!
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Lamb's ear spreads like crazy…I find myself pulling out year after year! Another one that is beautiful and spreads is Lady's Mantle.
Fabulous, it will look great as it fills in. Don't forget to make your own compost, we have seven large metre cube bins which we use all the time, and we only have a third of an acre! Everything that composts goes in, and it saves us a heap of money.
My favourite thing to do is wait until early to mid summer when all the plants get marked down at nurseries and buy things at a discount.
I hate landscape fabric!
Dividing perennials is such a good thing. We had two little spirea, one on each side of the driveway. I divided them and eventually ended up with 30.
@GraceInMySpace New subscriber here. I've been moving away from landscape fabric the last few years as well as I upgrade my beds and walkways; however, I have been fighting bindweed in one of my front beds for three years now and it is exhausting. I don't use chemicals in my yard. Can you suggest another way to control, if not get rid of, the bindweed aside from laying down some really good weed block of some kind?
You would probably save some $$$ if you had bulk mulch delivered instead of buying it by the bag. Can't wait to see everything grow in!!
Ask friends if you can come dig up some of their extras. It’s fun to look at a plant and remember who gave you a start from it. I really like your grapevine creation. I’ll try to make some.
8:35 I just signed up for a chip drop a couple weeks ago and haven’t gotten anything yet… hoping our area will have some chips to drop. I could sure use it. 👍🏼
Landscape fabric is demonic. I would NEVER put it anywhere near my yard/garden again. I now use old cardboard boxes. Although you still get the occasional weed to come up through the cracks, consistent pulling fies eventually kill them. Love what you are doing. I divide and spread my perennials and ground covers as well. Do much cheaper. ❤️
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My first time seeing your channel!
When I retired I finally had the time to landscape the property I had to work two jobs for thirty years to pay off. It's a large parcel and was all woods when Ibought it. First I created a four acre veggie garden in order to grow and donate to area food banks and animal rescues. That garden is now six acres (Thank the Lord for tractors).
I have separate fruit and nut orchards. With the abundance of wildlife here, I also planted fruit trees and bushes at the far back of the property so the many deer and a few bears could feed.
In the last four years I wanted to learn how to "propagate" trees and bushes. I soon became a "Ninja" gardener taking small cuttings from along roadsides or even stopping at homeowners house's and knocking on their doors to ask permission to take a few cuttings. Remarkably for some reason, I have never received a "no". Being on a fixed income, I had to find a way to get free plants so that's how it all started. There are SO many trees and bushes that can be very easily propagated this way! At worst I buy one plant and divide it a LOT.
Also find your local "seed exchange" groups. Lot's of Facebook groups as well. I trade lots of trees and bushes for different varieties.
Also call your local "master garden advisors" office.
I LOVE your rocks. Unfortunately I have to pay a ridiculous price for rocks, so I don't have many. I see them for free on Facebook and Craigslist often but there is a limit of what I can now lift and carry.
You are doing a FANTASTIC job on your place. It's really lovely. If you ever need seeds or cuttings of something specific, let me know. If I don't have it, I'm pretty sure I can find it.
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