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image - will try again once posted   Low maintenance evergreens include: phormium, bergenia, heuchera, euonymous (some), carex, cotoneaster (some), flat-growing junipers, choisya, lavender, euphorbia (some), aucuba japonica, prunus (some), ajuga, festuca

, low-maintenance and rewarding. Considering their price at the supermarket, they are also inexpensive.Don't be tempted to impulse-buy those specimens stuffed into pots that you see in large garden centres. In my experience, mail order plants from

, but they are a bit of a slug magnet, so you need to take precautions. EB many thanks for your replies, can anyone recomend a book that would give me advice on growing from seed, when to sow, pot on and  plant out and what maintenance is required. I would try

arum lilies will love it there too. Shrubs like skimmia. Sarcoccoca....fantastic winter scent....is lovely evergreen. Daphne's and hydrangeas will do,well there.You,could have a very attractive, low maintenance foliage and flower area there of interest

Hi All, We have a south facing terraced house with a concreted over front garden that is about 4x2m. My cunning plan was to make this a low maintenance area using 3 pale terracotta containers in different sizes. The little one has that black

is going to be a bit of a thug and will eventually need control.   That makes sense Gardening grandma - I will cut longer lengths of ivy and peg them in several places along the slope - I dont mind the maintenance at all, its the ugly slope i hate looking

grow very slowly in tufa so low maintenance too. Wildlife friendly can be so beautiful too. That's a lovely idea, happymarion, but I've already got the roof built now. The wildflowers will put on plenty of growth in spring.Kate I would love to do

.  Last spring we had our garden re "built" We are trying to be as low maintenance as possible, so we now have patio, a small patch of lawn for the dog to destroy with her urine and a border. The border is the first part of our problem. It is surrounded

of new build happened in our village the houses all had a front lawn with low wall to contain it and the back garden was a working garden with a clutch of hens, vegetables, fruit bushes, and anything else that would feed the family over the seasons

,picture is In September. Dove it's aster frikartii monch and the garden there faces south west. In this area are a number of hellebores so it's a fairly low maintenance area....right now the hellebores make their show and then the other stuff you see comes through