What product would you recommend for low maintenance & inexpensive landscaping. I am planning on renting out a house and was considering cedar or rocks for most of the side yard. Any pros/cons?

I don't know why you would buy and plant cedars for low maintenance landscaping. They grow quickly and have to be kept in check if too close to the house. Rocks ? In what capacity are you thnking for rocks. Rock gardens ?

Quick fixes are seldom satisfactory because if you are not living there, then the renter has to tend them, and if not, then you are left with the detrious.

If there is a fence, why just not lawn ?

Tick

Years ago, my father put down black top on side of house and painted it green.

No maintenance. LOL

Chuck

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Originally Posted by tickle

I dont know why you would buy and plant cedars for low maintenance landscaping. They grow quickly and have to be kept in check if too close to the house. Rocks ? In what capacity are you thnking for rocks.? Rock gardens ?

Quick fixes are seldom satisfactory because if you are not living there, then the renter has to tend them, and if not, then you are left with the detrious.

If there is a fence, why just not lawn ?

tick

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A lawn would grow weeds and renters tend not to water the lawn or dig up weeds. I was thinking wood chips like Cedar or tiny rocks so that weeds would not grow there.

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Originally Posted by jarbell1

A lawn would grow weeds and renters tend not to water the lawn or dig up weeds. I was thinking wood chips like Cedar or tiny rocks so that weeds would not grow there.

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That would work but you had better put down landscaping material first (over the dirt) then you will have no weeds, just wood chips or rocks.

Tick