Eco-friendly gardening in Mississauga with native perennials

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With the coming of spring many of us are planning to have a beautiful, eco-friendly paradise on our backyard.  None wants to redo a garden every year, but we all want it to be sustasinable and enjoy once planted flowers and shrubs for many years to come.  This is best achieved with fuss free native perennials.

The longevity of perennials is the main reason why people choose to plant them in their gardens.   If selected well and planted in the right way, they will provide you year after year with colour and foliage for about 15 years on average.  And you can usually share your perennial plants with your friends and neighbours by splitting either the root or the green part of the plant. You can also ) and share the success of your healthy plant with your neighbor without going to buy a new plant all together.

One of the hardiest perennials that also thrive in shady moist areas is hosta in its many varieties:

hostas

Low Maintenance Gardening

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low maintenance gardening

Low maintenance gardening is commonsense gardening.  You just use natural landscaping ingredients that blend with the surroundings, put the right plants in the right place, and then relax while your garden essentially thrives on its own.  Planning ahead and using the right hardscape is the key.  Before you put spade into the ground, you need to create a design scheme to ensure a harmonious arrangement of plants and choose fuss-free plants whose cultural needs match the growing conditions of your property.

Landpol Landscaping specializes in setting the hardscape base for low maintenance, eco-friendly gardening.  Whenever possible we recommend that our clients use natural stones for their patios, driveways, front  yards, paths and retaining walls and we design low maintenance flowerbeds with natural armour stones and use natural rusting pine mulch for water retention.  We can also recommend using native shrubs and plants that are most suitable for local conditions.

This blog is intended to provide help in creating low-maintenance landscaping suitable for Mississauga, Oakville, Milton, Etobicoke and generally Peel/GTA regions.

Perennials as groundcovers

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thyme lawn

Many perennials make great eco-friendly and beautiful groundcovers that can be used as a lawn replacement in small areas, such as courtyards or under the trees. A thyme lawn, for example, will never need mowing, will have pretty pink flowers in the summer time and some kinds remain green all year round even in the winter.