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How to have a beautiful garden without too much effort?

You dream of having a garden that will impress everyone and where you can spend summer evenings, but you do not feel able to maintain it regularly. Do not panic, you will have the garden you want thanks to a few clever methods.

First step:

To avoid regularly taking out the lawn mower and why not never taking it out, instead of the lawn you can opt for ground cover plants. The advantage of these is that they do not require maintenance. If you want to save time that you can use to do other things like lounging in your garden for example, then this is the solution!

Second step:

Then plant shrubs. The big positive point of shrubs is that you will not need to prune them regularly, once a year or every two years is enough. And to save even more time, choose evergreen shrubs that will avoid collecting leaves in autumn.

Third step:

If you want to have beautiful flowers in your garden, then choose bulbs. They have the particularity of being reborn naturally from their bulbs. You won't need to plant every year.

Fourth step:

To actively combat weeds, you just need to plant densely. So space plantations ¾ of their diameter at adult size, this will prevent weeds from taking hold but it will still allow your plantations to grow to reach their natural sizes.

Fifth step:

Finally, to weed your paths, there is a very simple and economical trick. Using a pot of boiling water (you can use pasta or rice water), pour everything over your cobblestones, it will eliminate weeds.

There you go, thanks to these five tips, you will have the most beautiful garden in the neighborhood!

These tips are taken from the Laidback Gardener's Guide from Mon Eden.fr