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Tips for Low-Maintenance Landscaping
Ten free landscaping ideas to take to heart if you're serious about low-maintenance landscaping. Since watering plants can be time-consuming, a big part of low-maintenance landscaping is properly managing your plants' water needs.

Backyard Fun
Getting yard work done is all well and good, but if the first thing that comes to mind when you think of your yard is "work," then you're in need of these free landscaping ideas for backyard fun. Through low-maintenance landscaping and a little creativity, you'll be enjoying backyard fun in no time.

Ornamental Grass Pictures
Use these ornamental grass pictures and their accompanying descriptions to learn more about one of the best examples of low-maintenance plants -- the ornamental grasses.

Low-Maintenance Alternative to Grass Lawns - Clover
What do clover lawns have over grass lawns? How about drought-tolerance, low-maintenance, cost-savings and environmental safety? Clover is insect-resistant and competes well with weeds, making it a low-maintenance substitute for grass. Mowing, watering and other lawn care is also reduced with clover. These free landscaping ideas on clover are prefaced by an intro to shamrocks and 4-leaf clovers.

Xeriscaping - Low-Maintenance Alternative to Lawns
North America is beginning to realize that drought may be with us to stay. While this is bad news for lawns, it is a clarion call to experiment with low-maintenance landscaping ideas. In a word -- it is time to xeriscape.

A Groundcover to Eliminate Mowing on Steep Slopes
Steep slopes are a beast to mow, assuming you've had any luck getting grass to grow on them at all! If these problems sound familiar, then let me tell you about the landscaping plants that may hold the answer for you: sun-loving juniper groundcovers.

Top 10 Mistakes Made by Do-It-Yourselfers
Find out what mistakes other landscaping enthusiasts commonly make, lest the same pitfalls bedevil your own endeavors. These common landscape design mistakes run the gamut from the aesthetic to the functional.

Jerry Baker: "Backyard Problem Solver"
Review of one of Jerry Baker's books, 'Backyard Problem Solver.' As is usually the case with Jerry Baker's books, this one is packed with powerful 'tonics' you can make at home that can accomplish everything from fertilizing plants to fighting insect pests.

Book Review: Jerry Baker's "Plants Are Still Like People"
Low-maintenance begins by "getting it right" in the first place. Common sense and old-fashioned wisdom go a long way toward helping you get off to a good start towards low-maintenance landscaping. Famous for his "home remedies" for plants, Jerry Baker provides just such common sense and wisdom for gardeners and landscapers, while entertaining his readers to boot.

Pussy Willows - Low-Maintenance Shrubs
Great idea for homeowners seeking low-maintenance landscaping: like most wild plants, pussy willows are easy to grow, and they're free! Discover their botany, easy incorporation into the landscape or garden, and minimal pruning requirements. Read these tips to make pussy willows a low-maintenance alternative to retail shrubs.

Low-Maintenance Perennials
Marie Iannotti, About's Gardening Guide, discusses 10 low-maintenance perennial flowers in this article, a must-read for busy homeowners who don't always have time to "get their hands dirty" in the yard.

Landscaping Tips From the "Plant Man"
Land Steward is an online source of tips and ideas to make landscaping easy. Especially helpful to do-it-yourselfers are the weekly "Plant Man" columns archived on Land Steward. But you'll find much more, including the ability to subscribe to a newsletter packed with landscaping tips, contact "Plant Man" directly with requests for landscaping advice, and even submit your own landscaping articles!

Low-Maintenance Alternatives to Lawns
Ideas for low-maintenance landscaping. Shortcuts that provide time savings through low-maintenance care alternatives. Instead of a labor-intensive lawn, grow ground covers or clover, or increase space devoted to perennial beds. Raised bed gardening is especially efficient and easy.

Judy Leiser’s Lazy Guide
Judy Leiser’s guide to avoiding work on the landscape -– if at all possible! Free landscaping ideas on how to reduce or eliminate mowing, weeding, fussing excessively over plant care, fumbling around with extension cords, etc.

Low-Maintenance, Organic Lawn Care
Paul Wheaton’s advice on saving money and achieving a low-maintenance landscape. Begins with a must-do list that includes setting your lawn mower as high as it will go and watering only when necessary.

"Yardscaping" Tips
"The first thing to remember with any "yardscape" is that it's a living, breathing entity," notes America's Home Inspectors. Therefore, low-maintenance doesn't mean no-maintenance. Even if you've gone out of your way to establish low-maintenance yardscaping, it "will need watering, feeding, cleaning, and disease prevention." This site offers an easy-to-digest collection of free landscaping ideas.