With our time-strapped lives, creating low-maintenance gardens just makes good sense – the plants we choose are critical in determining how labour-intensive our gardens will become.
Out of the global suffering of the past year has come an intense focus on living locally, on gratitude for the plenty we have, on the many joys - and benefits - of living more simply and in tune with nature.
This is gardening at its simplest and most pleasurable: literally a few minutes of harvesting in the early morning quiet, which also doubles as garden maintenance, over a soothing cup of tea.
The demand for instant gardens means there is often little tolerance for planting small trees, but in our experience trees that are planted when they are small grow to be more robust, sound plants.
Trees do a lot for us: they shade, screen, shelter, cool and filter pollution, give us fruit, nuts and berries and live much longer than we do. Trees are, quite simply, indispensable.
With our time-strapped lives, creating low-maintenance gardens just makes good sense – the plants we choose are critical in determining how labour-intensive our gardens will become.