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WHAT KIND OF LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDEN WOULD YOU LIKE?

FOUNDATION PLANTINGS
PERENNIAL GARDENS
MIXED BORDERS (shrubs and perennials)
EASY-CARE ROSE GARDENS
SHADE AND WOODLAND GARDENS
XERIC (low water use) GARDENS
BIRD, BUTTERFLY AND WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY GARDENS
BULB GARDENS

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Foundation Plantings

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Hydrangeas add color after azaleas and rhododendrons have ended

Year-round interest in a mix of evergreens which flower for months

Plantings were kept low to accentuate the painted porch of this Victorian

Informal mix of evergreen and flowering shrubs, bulbs and perennials

Tulips will be replaced by a vibrant perennial garden in summer

â€œCottage gardenâ€ design combining evergreens and a climbing rose

Early spring planting of rhododendron, boxwood and fothergilla

Informal design of lilac, crabapple, and roses with groundcovers

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Perennial Gardens and Mixed Borders

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Groundcovers spill down a stone stairway in spring

Terraced gardens make good use of a sloping site

Perennial border featuring clematis trained on an iron tuteur

Spring-flowering bulbs and perennials blanket a summer rose garden

The previous garden in summer with long-flowering, easy-care shrub roses

This patio garden was designed for maximum summer interest

A mixed border screens the tennis court beyond

Low-maintenance mini-meadow with grasses and perennials

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Shade and Woodland Gardens

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Striking foliage under the high shade of oak trees

Native plants blooming in May in the woodland garden

These spring bloomers will disappear in summer, to return next year

Flowering groundcovers blanket the area under an old dogwood

Foliage and berries used to good effect in the shade garden

Low-maintenance woodland garden in early spring

A foundation planting in a partly shaded site

Native plants have been allowed to self-seed in this woodland

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Close-ups

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Indigofera Rose Carpet is a wonderful groundcover for late summer color in dry placesimg_1079.jpg

Award-winning photo featured in People, Places and Plants Magazine

A combination for low-maintenance color, summer through fall

Daylilies are the ultimate low-maintenance perennial

Fall interest in an unusual peonyâ€™s seed pod

Easy-care shrub rose â€œLady Elsie Mayâ€ blooms for months

The low-maintenance native delphinium exaltatum

Native veronicastrum (in foreground) blooms in late summer