Low Maintenance Gardening
When I think of all the upkeep that one garden takes I can't imagine how I have time to deal with the other seven or eight. I visit them every day. But they never seem to need much more than that inspection and an occasional visit for weeding or watering. And deadheading - since there are daylilies everywhere! But that takes no more than half an hour a day even at peak daylily season.
So what did I do differently with all of those, that makes them so relatively carefree? I had to spend a long time looking and thinking, but I think I've managed to put my finger on it - and I hope it will help all of us to simplify our gardening chores.
The walled garden is actually the first really serious garden I ever planted. I did a ton of research before I began, mostly about what plants would like the conditions I could give them in my yard, as well as in my climate zone. After that I wasn't too interested in anything but color and height.
While I did pay some attention to spacing, especially when I made out my preliminary shopping list, there were two things I hadn't yes discovered about myself and my garden.The first (about the garden) was how bare it would look when the peony that the books told me to allow a square yard of space for only took up about three inches of that space. And the second was that I was absolutely unable to resist any interesting looking plants not on my list that promised to help me make all that space look full.
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