Low Maintenance Mailbox Garden

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.

Low maintenance mailbox garden.

Tailor your mailbox garden to the unique conditions of your curb if your mailbox is completely shaded try a shade loving plant like ferns. Edging will keep the grass from creeping in around your perennials. Create the ideal low maintenance outdoor area so you can spend less time weeding and more time smelling the roses. The drift series rose is an excellent low maintenance summer blooming shrub that does not grow too tall.

Accent it with a variety of no fuss perennials such as yarrow salvia lavender and ornamental grasses. 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. These easy landscaping ideas make your garden easier to care for by using low maintenance landscaping plants mulch drip irrigation and other easy gardenin. 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.

Drift roses are a great new series of low growing landscape roses that were named. A low maintenance option for busy gardeners. A combination of annuals and perennials makes a lovely cottage style mailbox garden. Prev 1 of 60 next.

Is this a mailbox garden or a garden that happens to have a mailbox in it. 10 easy steps to creating a low maintenance garden. Unless your thumbs are the deepest of forest greens not many of us like to spend hours weeding and maintaining our gardens. My mailbox garden read more explore.

Mojave portulaca is great for mailbox gardens because it is low maintenance drought and salt tolerant and is colorful all season long. The post your mailbox sits on is the perfect place to grow a small vine such as clematis. A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post. 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.

Consider the design all of the design tips think color contrast texture you ve implemented in your other garden beds apply here too.