Show Notes

Cost saving strategies for diy landscaping on a budget

Today’s links: ely.how/episode60

• Low Maintenance Plants for the Midwest
• Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Plant Database
• Affordable landscaping plant plugs – The Pollennation

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Affordable landscaping tips for your yard.

• Any project needs to balance:
  • Physical Resources
    • Time
    • Money
    • Effort
  • Design trade-offs
    • Beauty
    • Function
    • Comfort
  • Good planning
    • Avoiding costly mistakes
    • Right step, right time
    • Efficient resource usage
      • Sales
      • Help
      • Nature – seasons
    • Project management
      • Buying plants and materials off season
      • Installing in phases
      • Getting help
    • Plant cost savings
      • Selecting the right plants
        • Low Maintenance Plants for the Midwest
        • Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
        • Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Plant Database
      • Dividing plants
      • Buying smaller plants
        • Bareroot, seed, plugs
        • The Pollen Nation
      • Propagating plants
        • Seeds, cuttings, division
      • Simpler planting designs
        • Grasses
        • Groundcover
        • Mulch
      • Replace lawn with naturalized space
        • Prairie/meadow installation
      • Reduce irrigated landscaping
    • Use free materials
      • Mulch
      • Compost
      • Leaves
      • Cardboard
      • Rain