Low Maintenance Sidewalk Border Shrubs

This front garden idea combines a lovely majestic southern magnolia and shrub roses for low care color and a delightful fragrance spring to fall. Gold thread cypress is a low maintenance shrub perfect for both foundation and accent plantings.

Boxwood Dirt Simple

Low maintenance sidewalk border shrubs

A key benefit to this type of boxwood is that it is the least resistant to a destructive insect pest the boxwood leaf miner. A sidewalk garden doesn t just have to look good it can smell great too. Achieving a mature height of 2 to 3 feet boxwood grows well in sun or shade.

An easy way to soften the edge of a walkway is to use an ornamental thyme such as wooley thyme. When selecting trees for your landscape choose those that are low maintenance to avoid having to spend your free time cleaning up a carpet of spent blooms hickory hulls or invasive seedlings. It s got a compact habit and is slow growing so it requires very little pruning.

Plus as one of the first early spring bloomers the plant welcomes pollinators. It requires little upkeep while helping to smother weeds and keep soil moist. The low maintenance drought tolerant flowering lady s mantle provides lovely groundcover in walkways or underneath trees.

This shrub is drought resistant and thrives in average soil. The low maintenance option is to spread organic mulch such as shredded bark. Fill in open ground between young shrubs with fast growing annuals and perennials space holders that provide temporary color and cover ground until the shrubs fill out.

Aside from that they can also breathe life into an otherwise drab walkway. This evergreen perennial totes white or purple coloring and earns points in the low maintenance shrub department for its adaptability in acidic soil. Blue star creeper is semi evergreen so not a great choice for very cold climates as it will lose its.

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