Many people would like to live in a natural environment, but are often discouraged by the sheer amount of work it takes just to maintain it so overgrowth doesn’t become a problem. Apart from living in an urbanized, concrete environment, is there another way? Well, if you’d like to keep your mowing chores to the bare minimum, there happens to be a middle ground; by making perennials your prevalent choice, you will be able to enjoy the following benefits:
1. Keeping the soil moisturized
Since the soil is not exposed at any point, perennials help it retain its moisture. If you live in a windy or a rainy environment, perennials will help protect it against erosion.
2. Securing nutrients for other plants
In some cases, the nutrients found in the soil may be out of reach for certain plants. Perennials have the added benefit of pulling these out to the surface where the surrounding plants can access them with ease. For example, by pulling the water to the surface, the plants with shorter roots can absorb it even though they normally wouldn’t be able to.
3. Lessening the amount of maintenance required
Whether you decide to plant them yourself or reach out to landscaping Mississauga or similar service providers for help, the fact of the matter is that you only have to take care of this once (there’s no need to replant them every year). Furthermore, perennials require much less maintenance in general. Still, even though they may last for quite a while, their lifespan is limited.
4. Propagation is smooth
Simply put, the aspect of propagation is taken care of by taking the plant’s root system and dividing it. Of course, you need to be careful when doing that, but once you get the handle of this, all you need to do is to replant them, so new plants will be able to see the light of day when the time comes.
5. Plenty of options to choose from
One of the great things about perennials is there are so many to choose from you’ll never be running out of options. Unlike annuals, perennials don’t all bloom in the same period, which means that (with some careful planning) you’ll be able to set everything up in such a way that something gets to bloom all year round.
Have you considered an artificial turf?
If you truly don’t want to spend time or money on maintaining your turf, installing an artificial one is sure to relieve you from the stress and the sheer amount of work involved in dealing with it. A modern artificial turf is pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing, so that is no longer a drawback.
Conclusion
Living in a suburban environment means that you’re either going to have to invest a little bit of your resources into maintaining it, or relocate to the city area. Luckily, the modern times have blessed us with so many different tools and options to make the chore of maintaining your garden much less demanding, and there is always the easy way out by simply hiring someone to take care of it for you.
My son enjoys mowing, so that is not problem,but we would like to have more plants too.
I have a huge perennial garden. It does cut down on mowing but there is a lot of work with keeping them under control and mulching them. At the end of the season or the beginning of the next season you have to remove last years growth.
We are trying to plant more native plants and less grass as we redo our yard. Hopefully this will cut down on maintenance and watering.
Good read! We have almost three acres but my husband loves to mow. As the years have gone on, I do find my self planting more and more perennials and shrubs so there is less work for me in the flower beds.
This was fun to read this post thank you for sharing it. We sure have a ton of mowing and I would love to have some of these options.