Aerial view of green roof planting installation with native grasses and succulents, worker in safety harness.

SIMPLE AND NATURAL

Low Maintenance Garden Design

Sought by homeowners who want a garden without the weekend upkeep it usually asks for, low maintenance garden design starts with the same question as any other project: what a site can actually sustain, rather than what it is expected to sustain. For us, low maintenance landscape design is not a smaller, cheaper version of good design. The same discipline, applied with more restraint and careful selection.

Ease Without Shortcuts

Much of what gets sold as easy care garden design leans on synthetic shortcuts: artificial turf, composite decking, plastic hedging that never needs a trim. We take the opposite approach. Real ease comes from choosing the right plants and materials for a site in the first place, so the garden holds its shape on its own rather than being propped up by something artificial.

Chosen to Hold Their Shape

A genuinely low maintenance backyard design relies on species suited to the site's soil, sun and rainfall from the outset: clumping grasses, structural shrubs and locally hardy planting that fill their space and stay there, rather than lawn that needs mowing and edges that need constant redefining. The same thinking carries into a low maintenance yard design at any scale, from a compact courtyard to a full block.

The First Impression, Without the Upkeep

Low maintenance front of house landscaping asks a slightly different question again: a garden that needs to look considered every day of the year, glimpsed mostly in passing, without much time spent tending it. Layered planting and durable materials do the work that a lawn and a row of clipped hedges usually cannot, holding their structure through the seasons with minimal input.

Less to Worry About

The relief of a low maintenance garden design is less about time saved than about worry removed: no dead patches to explain, no watering roster to keep, no plant replaced twice before it finally takes. We measure a garden like this not by how little it needs in its first year, but by how little it still needs in its tenth.

The relief of a low maintenance garden design is less about time saved than about worry removed: no dead patches to explain, no watering roster to keep, no plant replaced twice before it finally takes. We measure a garden like this not by how little it needs in its first year, but by how little it still needs in its fifth.

SUBMIT AN ENQUIRY

We pride ourselves in our sensitivity to designing a garden that responds to your home, values, routines and lifestyle. With great care and a culture of design, let's start designing your garden.