Urban landscaping has become an increasing focus for homeowners. EcoBridge offers landscaping in Kitsilano and beyond. From landscaping design and installation, complete with planting, we offer a full-service, end-to-end approach to enhance the beauty and relaxation of the outdoor spaces surrounding your home.
One of the most popular requests we receive from clients is for low-maintenance gardens in Kitsilano and beyond. A low-maintenance garden is a terrific approach for anyone wanting to recharge and reconnect in nature, with less weeding, pruning and mowing.
A Balanced Approach to Landscaping Design
Creating lush landscapes, low-maintenance or otherwise, isn’t simply about enhancing curb appeal or creating recreational spaces. Urban landscaping brings health and wellness to our communities and homes. Balancing infrastructure with green space helps to purify the air, water, and soil. Around the house, the proper combination of trees, shrubs, and plants can enhance privacy, dampen sound, and even provide cooling shade, reducing your need for air conditioning and fossil fuel consumption.
To create low-maintenance gardens, we consider how to build up unique and meaningful spaces tailored to your lifestyle. This may take the form of firepits with cozy seating, lounges, or even dining areas. The idea is to create spaces requiring less maintenance than grassy lawns and flower beds.
Our approach isn’t to forsake greenspace in favour of wall-to-wall hardscaping, but rather achieving balance through manageable garden beds, planter pots and lawns.
Integrating Green Space into Low-Maintenance Gardens
From our perspective as Vancouver landscapers, creating stunning low-maintenance gardens means coming up with the correct ratio of living to planting space. No outdoor area will be completely maintenance-free. Instead, we approach these projects collaboratively, working to understand your goals as homeowners. For example, do you prefer a hands-off approach built around some hardy perennials, or have you always dreamed about a small, organic vegetable patch?
When landscaping design is approached correctly, even a narrow planting bed can have a significant impact. It can be filled with interesting additions ornamental grasses, colourful shrubs, or even an aromatic mix of culinary herbs.
Coming up with the right approach can take some effort upfront, but it tends to save our clients significant time, money, and frustration in the long run. You don’t want to invest in a rose garden when the soil around your home is sandy and heavily shaded. Likewise, if you don’t have time for pruning and pest control, you want to avoid options like hydrangea and wisteria. For low-maintenance gardens, we typically recommend native plants that naturally grow in our region and those with similar climates, providing colour and seasonal beauty with minimal care.
Transforming a High-Maintenance Garden
Flower beds will always be high needs in terms of maintenance. Planting, staking, watering, fertilizing, and deadheading, even to achieve a spray of seasonal blooms, all take time.
If your objective is transforming an existing garden, we might use some of your planting space with hardier native options. This doesn’t mean removing all your flowers. Instead, we can create a balanced, integrated, and aesthetically beautiful landscape using shrubs and sleek hardscape elements that can be as diverse and interesting as the plants themselves, highlighting the organic components of your garden.
Low-Maintenance Gardens in Kitsilano and Beyond
At EcoBridge Landscape, we favour sustainable approaches that use resources efficiently to create landscapes built with meticulous attention to detail.
For low-maintenance gardens, it’s best to ditch the annual bedding plants in favour of perennials that bring fragrance and colour, amidst hardscaping features that provide spaces to live and play. Options like English lavender, Bleeding Heart, and Yarrow all bloom plentifully, requiring an occasional trim to prevent them from getting too woody. Another bonus is that these perennials provide healthier environments and food for pollinators than bedding plants primarily bred for colour.
Mulch can be another brilliant timesaver. This easy groundcover suppresses weed growth, nourishes the soil, and reduces water loss. Spreading a few bags is an easy way to give beds a polished, well-maintained look with minimal effort.
Connect with EcoBridge Landscape
If your goal is to spend more time in your garden, it should be an inviting place. Connect with the team at EcoBridge to explore how we can transform your garden into a low-maintenance haven with outcomes that match your aesthetics, budget, and lifestyle.
Call 778.222.1701 or visit our contact page to get started.
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