gardening

10 Keys to a Low Maintenance Garden

10 Keys to a Low Maintenance Garden

Based on my discussions with clients and the popularity of previous posts on low maintenance gardens, you do not want to spend more time caring for your landscapes. You want to spend less time, even no time if possible.

In an effort to give you what you want, here are 10 ways to lessen the amount of time needed to care for your landscape (and some pictures of our low-maintenance landscapes to the left):

Keep these 3 Things out of your Landscape

Keep these 3 Things out of your Landscape

As a homeowner, landscaper, designer or architect we spend a lot of time deciding what to put into our landscapes. It is just as important, though, to know what not to include in your design. Landscape preferences are subjective, of course. But the following three things should never be in your landscape- in Portland at least!