29+ Low Maintenance Sidewalk Border Shrubs

Others fill summer evenings with a heavenly scent. Partial shade to full sun.

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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. It s drought tolerant and fills in spaces really nicely which is why you may hear it referred to as creeping phlox it can grow to 6 inches tall and can spread a couple of feet out. Moss phlox bursts into bloom in april and may and is perfect for a butterfly garden.

The only real trick to growing shrubs is picking the right ones from among the many hundreds available. Plants adapted to their environments long before people did so native species are a wise choice for the laid back landscaper. These 15 low maintenance shrubs for landscaping are all attractive reliable trouble free plants.

An easy way to soften the edge of a walkway is to use an ornamental thyme such as wooley thyme. That s where our selection comes in. Award winning beauty with burgundy stems and leaves and pale pink button flowers in spring and summer.

Blue star creeper pictured above. Blue star creeper is semi evergreen so not a great choice for very cold climates as it will lose its. Plus as one of the first early spring bloomers the plant welcomes pollinators.

This shrub is drought resistant and thrives in average soil. Box is a slow grower but a great investment as it may live over 100 years. A key benefit to this type of boxwood is that it is the least resistant to a destructive insect pest the boxwood leaf miner.

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