Steel garden edging: The best for low maintenance gardens
The most pleasing low maintenance garden designs are those that create year-round joy and yet have undemanding maintenance needs. All too often gardeners equate low maintenance outdoor spaces with being bland and devoid of charm, or a one-way ticket to paving the whole thing over. However, through more advanced garden design innovations, considerate planning and planting, it is now perfectly possible to create a beautiful low maintenance garden that retains inspirational features and a connection with nature.
What does low maintenance garden mean?
No garden ever requires zero maintenance, but an easy or low maintenance garden is one that fits into your lifestyle - the time you have available, your gardening ability and the enthusiasm you have to keep on top of it. There’s no hard and fast rule as to what is deemed low maintenance, it is unique to you and your individual circumstances.
When is a low maintenance garden a good idea?
Time is always a premium for gardeners with busy lives, but there are also other reasons why a low maintenance garden is a good option:
· For older members of our community
· For gardeners with a disability
· For gardens of commercial properties
· For landlords renting properties with gardens to tenants
· For a second home
· For people who don’t like gardening
How does steel landscape edging help in low maintenance gardens?
a) While steel garden edging gives a stunning visual definition to the functional zones of a garden, installing landscape edging also allows for valuable time saving.
b) Reinforcing the strength and integrity of paths, patios, flower beds and lawns, landscape edging minimises the need for their maintenance for at least your lifetime. Strong and durable steel and Corten garden edging has a very low degradation rate - at around 1 mm per 50 years.
c) The metal edging is resistant to damage from lawn mowers and machinery - you can just mow and go without having to remove and reinstall it before and after mowing.
d) No need to edge your lawn or flower bed again, you have a permanent crisp clean edge.
e) Landscape edging prevents weeds and grass runners from encroaching into neighbouring zones while keeping mulch materials in situ in beds.
f) By reducing soil compaction and enhancing soil aeration, drainage is improved so plants develop a strong root system allowing them to thrive with less reliance on fertilisers.
Low maintenance gardens traditionally meant doing away with time consuming tasks which usually at the expense of the garden’s beauty. Now it means making garden design decisions to balance function and form to add real value to how you enjoy your garden.
EverEdge NZ have the pleasure of helping clients accomplish their dream low maintenance garden design using steel landscaping, Christchurch gardens have never looked so good. If you would like to learn more about how to use EverEdge garden edging, or have a specific challenge you wish to discuss, drop us a line or call 021 925 389 - we’re more than happy to help.
