Low Maintenance Front Yard Landscaping
My front yard is located up on a hill. I have a kind of beautiful landscape of mostly mulch, greenery, and flowers. The problem with mulch is that it's very high-maintenance. Every year, we have to refill the bald spots. Between buying, transporting, and lifting the mulch bags, it's just becoming overwhelming. Don't even get me started on the back pain or the wind blowing the mulch dust inside and outside the house...
Another issue was that the mulch was all around the base of the house and it caused a humidity problem inside the house, as it seems to have been letting the rain and snow penetrate throughout.
As you can see, I had many reasons to want to find an alternative, so I discovered river rocks. One scoop of the rocks solved the problem! It's beautiful, durable, and useful. It's a good way to prevent rain from seeping into the house. So, I removed all the mulch surrounding the house and replaced it with rocks.
This is the front before with the beds intact.
I removed the mulch from all of the garden areas. It was very close to the walls and was creating lots of water, humidity, and dust.
I started by leveling the ground and removing the excess soil, then I laid down the landscaping fabric. Finally, I dumped the rocks and spread them evenly.
I then finished off the look by laying down 4 well-spaced concrete tiles and adding these...
...I added four planters over the tiles and planted evergreen plants to keep the green view all year-round.
I love the final look and it's so easy to maintain! Now my beds are clean and crisp, and I can keep them looking good without a lot of work or effort!
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Very nice ... looks like easy management. I'm in!
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Thank you
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What size are the planters?
this looks great! Simple and clean! I am over mulch!!!
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They should be around 35” tall
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Hi! Looks great, but I have rose bushes & lilacs that are 15-20 years old. Can you leave your plants in the ground, and use the rocks instead of mulch? Thank you!
Yes have rocks in. What size planter boxes ? 10 gallon ?
And what evergreen plants did you use ?
How do you anchor pots down so they don’t blow away or get taken away? Thanks Fiona