Low Maintenance Mailbox Garden

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Low maintenance mailbox garden.

I did a post a while back on my front yard garden spots where i wrote about my mailbox garden and felt today that i needed to update what i ve done since then. The drift series rose is an excellent low maintenance summer blooming shrub that does not grow too tall. My mailbox garden read more explore. This bed uses silvery gray lamb s ears which produce spikes of lavender blooms along with gold daylilies pink torenia and low growing purple petunias and calibrachoa.

Unless your thumbs are the deepest of forest greens not many of us like to spend hours weeding and maintaining our gardens. A combination of annuals and perennials makes a lovely cottage style mailbox garden. Mojave portulaca is great for mailbox gardens because it is low maintenance drought and salt tolerant and is colorful all season long. Be sure to install edging if your mailbox garden is next to turf.

If they insist on having plants on their front yard evergreens will be a perfect low maintenance plant choice. Tailor your mailbox garden to the unique conditions of your curb if your mailbox is completely shaded try a shade loving plant like ferns. Other front yard landscaping ideas can be applied such as by creating a stone garden in front of the house that looks natural and beautiful with low maintenance needs. Edging will keep the grass from creeping in around your perennials.

Is this a mailbox garden or a garden that happens to have a mailbox in it. Consider the design all of the design tips think color contrast texture you ve implemented in your other garden beds apply here too. Drift roses are a great new series of low growing landscape roses that were named. A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post.

In addition to flowers that are low maintenance you want to plant blooms that can withstand curbside conditions from rocky soil to high salt levels from the road. A low maintenance option for busy gardeners. Over the years a mailbox garden may grow in size and scope to include all of your favorite flowers. Accent it with a variety of no fuss perennials such as yarrow salvia lavender and ornamental grasses.

These easy landscaping ideas make your garden easier to care for by using low maintenance landscaping plants mulch drip irrigation and other easy gardenin.