Eradicate Ugly Foundation Plantings in your neighborhood

The most common mistake in home garden design is planting too many shrubs and shrubs that
grow too large around the foundation of the house. Foundation planting was a turn of the century American invention to cover up ugly foundations that were very high off the ground
in houses built around the 1880's until the 1920's. Today few houses are built more than a few
feet off the ground and many are being built on a slab. Hence no need for heavy foundation
plantings. All you need are a few plants at the corner and around the entrance tied together
by ground cover , or if you choose to go in for even greater low maintenance gardening, put
down a couple of layers of landscape fabric and cover it with an inch of pine bark or cypress
mulch or some other mulch. If you would like greenery added punch holes about 10 inches
apart and plant something like asiatic jasmine.