Enjoy Your Garden With Low Maintenance Garden Ideas (Adelaide).

With Adelaide residents spending more time at home than ever before, most are wanting to spend that time relaxing, not working.
With gardening chores such as pruning, cleaning, watering, weeding and mowing needing to be attended to regularly, especially during the warmer months beginning with spring, when everything starts growing rapidly, there’s little time left to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

The answer is to have a garden that’s as free of maintenance as possible, or take advantage of modern technology to do the work, allowing you to relax and enjoy your garden.

The following information lists 5 Low Maintenance Garden Ideas Adelaide home owners can implement when landscaping their front garden or backyard to reduce the amount of time gardening takes.

Adopt Native Garden Design Principals

Native plants to Adelaide are more drought tolerant and able to handle the hot Summer Sun more than plant species brought in from overseas.
There’s a huge range to choose from, with flowers that appear at different times of the year and foliage shapes to match the gardens style.

A native garden design will also attract new neighbours such as colourful parrots and Kookaburras which are more common than you think. Native birds will add interest and melodic sounds to your life.

Protect And Seal Timber & Pavers

You’ve just had a beautiful hardwood timber deck or large format natural stone pavers laid, which you’ve worked hard to pay for. Protecting your investment makes sense from a financial and maintenance perspective.
As soon as timber deck builders or paving contractors have built or laid your outdoor flooring of choice, protect them with an appropriate sealer.

Protecting by sealing timber decks and pavers from the weather and accidents, particularly if they’re the flooring used for outdoor entertaining areas, will dramatically reduce cleaning maintenance. Fatty foods dropped from a BBQ, red wine, even leaves left on the ground when it rains can stain unprotected timber and pavers.

Adopting what can be considered one of the low maintenance garden ideas Adelaide home owners can either do themselves once maybe every couple of years, or have done by professional landscapers will save time cleaning more regularly.

It should be noted that using a blower-vac or broom to remove dirt and leaves should be done as a matter of course and if you drop a sausage, wiping the floor with a damp cloth soon after will help prevent stains and remove a potential slip hazard.

Install Automatic Irrigation Systems

Hard wired systems with control pads and solenoids can be set up to handle all your irrigation needs automatically. Different zones can be configured to have different amounts of water delivered to different areas of your garden.
A lawn may need 1 hour once a fortnight, while your plants may need half an hour if they have 2L an hour drippers attached weekly.

Your plants and lawn can have appropriate drippers or spray heads attached to irrigation lines, ensuring everything gets the right amount of water and at the right time of the day.
There’s even automatic irrigation systems with wi-fi connectivity you can control with your Smart phone from anywhere.

Have Male Sterile Kikuyu Laid

Nothing beats the feel and look of natural grass. Many people have been put off laying instant lawn or rolling out natural turf moving to artificial grass instead. With advances in Horticulture, new species of grass have been produced to remove the advantages of laying synthetic turf over that of having a beautiful lawn.

Male Sterile Kikuyu is tough with good self repairing qualities, making it great for children and dogs. It’s Sun and shade tolerant, so great for all seasons and it’s drought tolerant so it doesn’t need as much water as other types of natural grass. The thick thatch inhibits weed growth and it doesn’t grow up.

Set Up Automatic Robotic Mowers

We left one of the best low maintenance garden ideas to last. New on the landscaping scene, there’s a range of small mowers available that will mow your lawn for you. Catering to all budgets, once they’re set up they move around the lawn taking just a little off at a time, keeping the perfect height you desire.

Clever enough to know when they need to be recharged, they’ll automatically go back to their docking station for a recharge, until venturing out again. If the kids are playing, or you have friends over, just turn it off, then on again once they’ve gone, or the children have gone to bed.

One of the many advantages they have, apart from removing the task of having to mow the lawn with a mower yourself is they leave the cut grass behind, naturally fertilising your natural grass in the process.