Low-maintenance garden
Maximum garden, minimum upkeep.
A low-maintenance garden is designed so it largely looks after itself: tough, long-lived plants, generous mulch to suppress weeds, and hard landscaping where lawn would mean mowing. The trick is structure and ground cover — fill the space deliberately so there is little bare soil for weeds, and little to prune or replace.
Key features
Every Low-maintenance garden is built from a few signature elements. These are the details that define the look — and exactly what you drag onto your own 2D plan in LushAI, then render photorealistically.
- ✓Tough, long-lived perennials and shrubs over fussy annuals
- ✓Dense ground cover and deep mulch to crowd out weeds
- ✓Paving, gravel or decking instead of high-upkeep lawn
- ✓Drip irrigation or drought-tolerant planting to skip watering
Colour palette
Evergreen greens with seasonal flushes of one or two flower colours.
Materials
Paving, bark or gravel mulch, steel or timber edging, evergreen structure.
Plants that suit this style
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