10 Trendy Garden Designs You’ll Hate in 5 Years
I’ve been a landscape designer for 20 years. I’ve seen every trend cycle through, and I’ve watched the same expensive mistakes get made over and over. The gardens that photograph beautifully are often the ones that become the biggest headaches to live with — and the hardest to sell around.
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Wrong vinca….annual vinca (shown first) is just a lovely drought tolerant bedding flower.
I grow a couple elephant ears in large pots and bring them inside for the winter. They last for years.
I planted Bishops Weed and it has taken over my entire front yard. I hate it!!!!
no it isn't: pulling weeds from clay earth is far more difficult than pulling from gravel!
I've been on Instagram before and ALL those pictures posted are ALL Fake just to get Followers and be the Hottest person on Instagram. Hell half the pictures on Facebook are Fake / edited.
6 inch gravel prevents weeds. Ones that do grow can be easily pulled. Mulch makes a perfect home for termites.
Fro. Experience f… gravel this is really true those weeds
I do not have a lot of gravel. I put cardboard under my weed barrier. And I use boiling water to kill weeds as long as there are no Landscape plants nearby.
I laughed about the built-in grill and I thought about backyard spas. a friend got a spa and used it a lot the 1st 6 months then less and less and finally gave it to me. and this used spa was expensive to install but my little kids loved it.
I have a gravel yard for quite some time. No issues, compared to pulling weeds from grass lawn. My yard looks so much better. If you are a senior citizen, a gravel yard should be the preferred choice. Grow plants only at the fringes so you can just concentrate on maintaining them.
Gravel is a mess.
I have bigger stones and it’s only 2 times a year where I need to maintenance 2 areas of the 6 areas.
I agree with everything except #2. We have small front and backyards with both yards mostly shaded under large oak trees, grass just does not grow well. So I opted to remove all lawns and replaced by native adapted colorful plants. It's in the third year and our problem is many plants disappeared probably eaten by rabbits, and I'm looking to add more plants this year including some will do well in shade. My gardener suggested to get larger plants less likely to be eaten by rabbits.
We bought a house with creeping black eyed susans and a beautiful harbingeria vine growing up the side of the carport. I literally had to prune the harbingeria every 2 weeks. And the black eyed susan spread everywhere in the yard. Its beautiful, but its a LOT of work. And a lot of watering.
Not sure where the narrator lives but I have a big chunk of gravel in my yard and weeds are not an issue.Easy to pull if they do pop up but if the gravel is deep enough its not an issue. I agree green grass and flowers are prettier but they are a lot more work and done right the gravel can be accented with containers and borders and look just fine with a fraction of the work.