Everyone wants a beautiful yard… but some of the most popular landscaping trends are secretly making your life harder. In this video, we break down the worst offenders and show you how to create a better, lower-maintenance landscape.
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CHAPTERS.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Chemicals on a Schedule
02:00 Foundation Planting
03:45 Unused Lawns
04:50 Living Walls
07:10 Water Features
08:55 Perennials & Annuals
22 Comments
Being from the American south, my eye much prefers the natural forms of garden plants, shrubs, and trees.
In my backyard I have planted 200 strawberry plants, last year it was only 100. Last year I had to cut back a lot of trees and brushes in my mothers garden. I shredded all the branches to make mulch for my strawberrys. Doing this for years, so only a few weeds grow through, the soil needs less moisture and almoust no fertilizer. I only bu a bag of horn shavings for 20€ each year. The mulch breaks down and what is left over in spring, will be digged into the soil.
It is al lot of work, but also I´ve got a lot of strawberrys. I also waste no time in mowing the lawn and I have no problem with any waste from gardening. 90% gets used as compost or mulch.
8:57 I agree that for many people it may be best to use perennials strategically. However, here, 9:22, you state that a lot of perennials that bloom a lot require a lot of maintenance. A few seconds earlier you mentioned “constant maintenance” and pruning/trimming them. What you failed to mention is that there are many native perennials that require no trimming or pruning whatsoever! In each region there are many plants you can find that need to be watered the first few weeks you have them and then need no trimming, pruning, or watering from that point forward! The only reason a lot of people spend a lot of time maintaining their perennials is either (a) they have chosen a plant that isn’t made for the conditions in their region —sometimes they’ll buy plants that evolved on a whole other continent!—or(b) they haven’t followed “right place, right plant” and have, for example, placed a shade-loving plant in a spot that gets full sun (so then the person may find themselves watering a plant they wouldn’t need to water if it was in a different spot in the yard).
This guys a hippy, ill keep doing what im doing. My yard is a masterpiece not a playground or nature preserve
Ooh, I really dislike geometric shaped shrubs.
We have lawn for the grandkids, but we are allowing a certain type of clover growing amidst the grass.
The green wall is what I want to do on our south wall, to hopefully keep the house cooler. We plan to use cattle panels as the trellis, and bougainvillea as the plants, which grow well here. We'll see how it turns out. We'll use a few plants in a raised garden with trellises for the east wall of one bedroom.
3:32 Whack jobs…which also cuts off all the blooms on certain plants. I had a client who never saw their spirea, privet hedge, lilac hedge, and smoke trees bloom, because their former garden company whacked everything on every visit.
My Landscape is beautiful, but I am a slave to it. The weeds, the leaves the trimming, the deadheading, the pruning never end.
I was just wondering why there isn't good content on landscaping, and not only is there one, but it's a sustainable one! amazing, thank you!
I like grass lawn alternatives like clover.
Interesting video! I like low maintenance. I always appreciate your wisdom and perspective, backed by design theory, experience, and reasonable, scientific explanations. That's very good to know about living walls and greens walls, especially about the zoo. I'm going there this week, and I haven't seen the remodeled Kingdoms of Asia area yet, and now I'll be able to spot the green wall part and know who planted that and how. Very cool.
Two doors down from me, a couple built a new house. The husband had a landscape business. He put huge rocks (6-12" diameter) over the entire property! Because he thought they were low maintenance, I guess. He had five large, beautiful oak trees that he said he wanted to keep for shade, but within three years, they were all dead. I assume the reason is lack of oxygen to the roots or those stupid rocks heating up the soil.
Plus, this dummy talked our neighbor into putting rocks in his yard too… and they lost the only tree in their back yard.
I weed my lawn by hand several times a year, including crab grass. At first, it was backbreaking, tedious, and took a weekend. Now, it’s maybe an hour every couple months in the summer. It’s still tedious, but if we have to have a lawn (my husband requires it), at least it’s healthy and alive. Now, if there would be an effective and natural way to actually deal with the grub invasion of the last few years, I would be happier. I have a really big lawn, so no small feat.
And now Spanish slugs come and eat it all. Entire towns in my country are infested and there seems to be no cure.
Oh i love the way you created the "Green Wall" i love the look of a living wall but i am not into much maintenance. Currently i live in a attached/townhouse with no lawn to grow anything but having something that naturally will want to fill that wall. Stunning and ingenious!
Don’t do grass in large areas unless you want that to be part of your feature. I have beautiful hybrid Bermuda that’s like walking on a fluffy green carpet. Seeing that deep green really does something for me. Just my $.02!
What is the top weed control/killer for a major weed problem you would recommend?
I live in Northwest MT an have pets n kidos who run in the yard. And these nasty lil blue and/or yellow weed flowers with spikes have been slowly takin over the yard and they r truly miserable to step on bare foot – almost like a mini cactus the are so poky.
Anyhow jus wanted to hear what you would recommend- I aim on the side of natural thing an have been trying to choke them out with clover an other grasses but I feel the weed flowers r already to far grown along.
Would love to hear your thoughts!! Thanks so much
Lawns are boring …… landscaping gives a home attraction – curb appeal ……. english gardens joy ….. so worth the work to keep them up
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3/4 of my neighbour's land is monoculture lawn. they spend days each week maintaining and "purifying" the way it looks
3/4 of my garden is permaculture orchard with chickens and geese doing free maintenance
and my neighbours absolutely hate me for it. every year they find a new reason to complain why am I not doing an urban garden in the countryside. (:
Our property (born and raised in the house so my parents bought it over 40 years ago) had trees along the one side. We had them removed as soon as they started causing problems but there was also a privacy hedge planted right up against our porch. That has become so huge and oversized we finally told the guy to just hack it back even if it kills it because it would be better to fully remove it at this point. The roots are so deep after probably 5 decades of growth that to fully remove we would need to get an arborist out. What a nightmare. I am slowly replacing the edges of our lawn with native wildflowers that don't need constant care and it is such a game changer. Our cement porch has cracks in it taht i am almost certain are from the roots of that privacy hedge. We did not plant it so aren't sure of the exact type but a plant id app told me it was a Japanese Holly. We already decided to replace the hedhe with a privacy wall or fence type thing instead.