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In article , anton

I see no reason why
you shouldn't compartmentalise a garden and yet have a low maintenance
layout in each of those areas.


The act of dividing into compartments tends to increase
the maintenance requirement, unless the divider is a no-
maintenance brick wall.

or a low maintenance element

Of course the compartments
individually can be relatively high- or low- maintenance.
By the way, I haven't actually suggested that a large garden
shouldn't be divided or compartmentalised at all- just that it
shouldn't look like 5 small gardens next to one another.

But well filled borders of shrubs are not high maintenance, neither are
shrub roses.

Relative to what?

lawns, herbaceous, vegetables, bedding plants, scree garden


Yes - as you say, it is personal taste. Personally, I find myself rather
bored by huge lawns surrounded by curving borders, and much prefer a
journey of exploration

This is a straw man argument.

It wasn't meant as an argument. It was meant as an acceptance that our
tastes differ.
--
Kay Easton

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