LANDSCAPING YOUR HOME
Gilbert Brakey
People planning a new garden for .their retirement home are either ardent gardeners who appear to have little time or desire to relax in their garden, or contemplative types who want to sit and meditate. ’ ' .
Keen gardeners ' will spend a large percentage of their time working in the garden with little time left for relaxation.
. For those who wish for a more leisurely retirement, or perhaps find themselves less able to cope with rigorous garden jobs, the alternatives should be carefully considered.
Their garden should be built and planted in such a way as to be reasonably sei f-maintaining. Anymaintenance that is required should be a relatively easy, undemanding task.
A person who has a larger property with extensive lawns may be able to allow’ certain areas to become naturalised by planting bulbs, letting the grass grow', and mow’ing pathways through these “wilderness” areas. Once the bulb-leaves start to turn yellow the grass can be mown again for a short period. The grass will rest during the w’inter months. I have such a “wilder-
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