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10 plants to use along walkways. Box is a slow grower but a great investment as it may live over 100 years.

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Low maintenance sidewalk border shrubs!!!

Full sun is best but box will tolerate some shade. This front garden idea combines a lovely majestic southern magnolia and shrub roses for low care color and a delightful fragrance spring to fall. A sidewalk garden doesn t just have to look good it can smell great too. The soft edges of the plant make it a perfect choice for borders in need of softening.

Blue star creeper pictured above. This shrub is drought resistant and thrives in average soil. Blue star creeper is semi evergreen so not a great choice for very cold climates as it will lose its. The result is privacy that s not.

An easy way to soften the edge of a walkway is to use an ornamental thyme such as wooley thyme. The planting between the sidewalk and street helps soften the front yard plantings. The low maintenance option is to spread organic mulch such as shredded bark. Fill in open ground between young shrubs with fast growing annuals and perennials space holders that provide temporary color and cover ground until the shrubs fill out.

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