Easy Maintenance for New Build

Easy-to-Maintain Landscaping for New House

Before

This beautiful new home needed a bit of landscaping to complement and soften hardscaping that had recently been installed. The customer was looking for something simple, spacious, low-maintenance and - to the extent possible - deer resistant. Three garden sections, total, were designed including: left front of the house, "courtyard" in front of the porch, and along the side of the attached garage.

Chosen Designs

For the left portion of the front of the house, the customer chose a design anchored by a tall ornamental grass. Three dark-leafed mallow shrubs (hardy hibiscus) would serve as the focal point of the garden, surrounded by ornamental oregano, gaura, and artemisia.

In the courtyard garden, less was more for this customer. Pennisetum, coneflower, lavender, geranium, tall and creeping phloxes, and chartreuse-leafed catmint were selected, with lots of breathing room inbetween plants.

Along the attached garage and immediately adjacent to the courtyard, the design continued by pulling in creeping phlox, geranium, tall phlox and coneflower. Reed grass served as exclamation points under each window, with artemisia softening the whole row.