Casual Maintenance Landscaping & Gardening for the Birds

We once had a garden that stretched the idea of what a garden is. It was beautiful and abundant—including weeds and grass. It required little maintenance except when the weeds and grass were about to proliferate—no hours and hours of weeding, no hours and and hours of watering, no hours and hours of planting new plants. The birds were particularly prolific as they had everything they needed to begin the restoration of their specii—food, shelter and a balanced, healthy eco-system in which to thrive.

In these days when there seems to be a shortage of time for landsacping and gardening, we have found many, many time-saving ways of providing Nature to your door (so-to-speak) that are healing and abundant and easy and (relatively) inexpensive. Each of our landscaping creations will include a work of water to provide the balanced, healthy eco-system. Each of our landscaping creations will include a healthy measure of your favorites. Each of our landscaping creations have trees, and shrubs, and flowers and vegetables and native species and fruits and nuts and more, all together, in special groupings for synergy.

Everyone and everything benefits from casual maintenance in the garden and landscaping—ALL species, seen and unseen. Come and be casual with us for the benefit of the planet.

What constitutes casual or low maintenance gardening?

Probably we can all agree that to be low maintenance means requiring little of our time while still remaining beautiful and abundant. Most of us delight in finding five minutes here and five minutes there, or even a few hours on a weekend, to spend in the garden just soaking up the healing energies of Nature. Most often though, we are inconsistent in our gardening habits, and need to design a system that will take care of itself for the most part.

If a garden is well mulched it will be low maintenance. Ruth Stout even went so far as to call her gardening and mulching techniques "no work gardening". Well mulched gardens are healthier and happier. They require very little water and watering. They tend to weed free, and those weeds that do persist are easily pulled out (no equipment or necessary!).

Although it is not immediately obvious to the eye because you can be stunned by the beauty and abundance of an expanse of happy garden, planting in communion and co-creation with the Nature spirits makes for a low maintenance garden. Planting so that the energy stays within the garden loop (i.e. circle) and taking advantage of the particular synergy of plant energies requires this two-way conversation with Nature and the results will always be low maintenance. Two-way communication is easy to learn and exciting to participate in. It is not outside anyone's realm of abilities, skills or experience.

Ask, and we'll teach you.