Northeast Low Maintenance Plants

When designing the landscaping for your outdoor living area, finding low maintenance plantings is an important factor. Many of us has lived in either suburban or rural houses that came attached with lawns, and cutting the grass was a neccessity. In fact, cutting the grass during the summer was often a twice a week chore. If this grass did not get cut, the grass would be up to our knees and potentially ridden with moles and insects.

All of us would rather be sitting in our deck chair enjoying the weather instead of mowing right? Well, for those of you living in the Northeastern part of the country, there is a grass called Sheep Fescue, a type that thrives in the New England states such as Maine. Sheep Fescue does not require extra watering or fertilizer, and it grows to a maximum height of approximately five inches and then stops!

Too good to be true right? Well, the drawback is that Sheep Fescue seed is not cheap and not readily available in local hardware or garden center retailers - you can order over the Internet for about $8 a pound. Sheep Fescue tends to be a little scruffy, shaggy and not brilliant green. As a result, if you don't mind sacrificing the annual neighborhood best yard contest trophy for a low maintenance yard, Sheep Fescue is the right planting to make you give away your lawnmower.