Lose Your High Maintenance Nashville TN Lawn! Inspiring Low Water Gardens
It gets hot during Middle TN summers! Lose your Nashville TN home’s high maintenance lawn and instead go with an earth friendly water conserving garden. Imagine being lawn free this summer……See how some homeowners are ditching their grass for low water landscapes and still maintaining “green” beautiful curb appeal.
Lose the Lawn: Inspiring Gardens
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Two great ideas from this garden;
Grassy screen: grass screens the sitting area from the street and “Character” plants.
Flagstone paths curve through a low-water front yard. A low berm of soil on either side of the walk adds interest, and weed cloth topped with permeable pea gravel allows excess water to soak into the earth rather than run off into the street.
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Add mostly low-water plants that give the yard all-season appeal.
Learn more about this low-water makeover
Instead of expanding their 1,250-square-foot home Gabe Gelbart and landscape designer Paul Rhoadzhagen decided to keep the house compact and let the garden shine, providing plenty of outdoor living nooks, colorful plantings that require little water, and lessons on incorporating environmentally sound materials and practices into the landscape.
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This homeowner ripped out much of her lawn and replaced it with a mixture of perennials and shrubs.
Perfect for your Nashville TN luxury home; turn a small section of lawn into a private retreat.
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