Landscaping Ideas For Your Austin, TX Home | Spyglass Realty
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By Desiree Miller
A no-maintenance yard is just a dream, but a low-maintenance yard? Totally possible, even in Austin’s sometimes-challenging climate.
What you need is a yard that can withstand the scorching summers, flash floods of spring and fall, and the occasional hard freeze of winter. It sounds like a tall order, but here are six low maintenance landscaping ideas for your Austin home.
6 Steps to a Low-Maintenance Austin Yard
1. Rain Garden
Flash floods are just a matter of when in Austin. The more permeable cover you have -- meaning ground that absorbs water -- the less likely the excess water will end up in your street or your house.
A rain garden is the perfect answer -- a garden in a small depression in the ground, that…
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