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12 Ways to Save Money on Your Landscape
12 Ways to Save Money in your landscape:
- Plant quick growing shade trees for future summers (poplar hybrids, willow hybrids & lombardy poplar for examples)
- Choose younger bare root flowering shrubs and trees (saves money and water)
- Mulch with shredded bark mulch or aged compost/manure mix (keeps the ground cool over the roots reducing water needs)
- Select perennial plants over annuals (plant once and grow for years – also perennials require less water than annuals)
- Plant spreading perennials and ground covers in bare areas (their shade limits weed growth)
- Watering lawns every 4 to 5 days saves water and allows the roots of the grass to grow deeper
- Incorporate herbs into your landscape for cooking
- Raise the setting on your lawn mower
- Use drip hoses for most gardens and landscaped areas
- Select the proper plants for difficult areas such as full sun or full shade
- Remove dead plants immediately
- Deadheading many shrubs and perennials encourages new blooms
