Low Maintenance Front & Back Garden Makeovers Adelaide.

Updating front yards and back gardens is popular, with the number of Adelaide residents hiring landscapers from Visual Landscape Gardening to complete doubling, in the past 2 years alone.
Creating a more relaxed lifestyle at home for the whole family to come together and enjoy is by far the top reason for requesting a back garden makeover, with looking to create a low maintenance garden the most popular reason for landscaping the front yard.

Residential landscapers from Adelaide landscaping company ‘Visual Landscape Gardening’ are licensed to offer a one stop shop approach to any landscape design or garden makeovers Adelaide residents have in mind and with over 30 years’ experience, can offer a range of alternatives to cater for tighter budgets too.

Popular Front Garden Makeover Elements Adelaide Residents Use

Using low maintenance garden design elements not only helps to reduce the time needed to keep a garden looking great all year round, but you can also save a significant amount of money.
Some of the more popular landscaping ideas Adelaide homeowners integrate are listed here:

• Incorporating sub surface drip irrigation lines put the right amount of water to the roots, where it’s needed without waste.
• Utilising River pebbles instead of bark chip as a top dressing will last a lifetime instead of a year before the bark’s colour fades or composts down.
• Moss rocks can be used to construct steps, as well as be used to retain earth, ideal in a more informal garden setting.
• Installing artificial grass instead of natural turf can dramatically cut down maintenance time and save you money on your water bill.

It’s important to note that low maintenance does not mean plain. There’s an abundance of water wise plants and trees that are well suited to Adelaide’s hot summer conditions that will suit any theme you’d like to have.

Popular Back Garden Makeover Elements Adelaide Homeowners Use

Whether you’d like a more formal, structured look (above), or an informal area that looks more natural (below), swimming pools and their landscaping can provide either.

When looking at a complete back garden makeover Adelaide residents want a place, they can both relax and entertain outdoors.

The top 5 landscape design elements that are most requested are listed below:

• Paved outdoor entertainment areas, ‘Alfresco style’ or with a free-standing verandah that can be used all year round allow for both relaxing and entertaining. Wall mounted televisions, outdoor lounge furniture and table settings are added to complete the scene.
• Levelling out sloping blocks to create more usable space with concrete blocks or concrete sleepers is often requested.
• Water features such as a waterfall entering a garden fishpond or statue with water flowing into a pond creates a tranquil environment.
• Replacing natural lawn with artificial grass is extremely popular, with many benefits.
• Raised Garden beds that utilise automatic irrigation systems to add a splash of colour and foliage is frequently asked for.

Paving and landscaping goes hand in hand, as the image above illustrates. Low maintenance plants and pavers used as steppingstones harmonise with the pebbles and sensory raised garden bed.

Privacy is something that Adelaide homeowners seem to crave as well. The erection of privacy screens to block out a neighbour’s view of outdoor spa or BBQ areas is on the increase. With many smaller blocks being sold these days, the interest in vertical gardens as a feature is very high and serve as a way of adding colour and smell to the smallest of spaces, even if you just have a balcony out the back.