Country Lore: Landscaping on a Budget

These reader tips will help you landscape on the cheap.

By Jennie Butler
August/September 2006

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Purchasing trees, shrubs and flowers for a new yard can be expensive. Here are some ways to cut costs on landscaping:

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  • Purchase only half as many perennial flowers and berry plants as you want to have in your garden. In a year or two, the berries will spread, and the flowers will be large enough to divide and replant.
  • Have a neighborhood or community plant-trading party.
  • Keep your eyes peeled: Many people have one- to two-year-old tree saplings that have sprung up in their yards or gardens that they will be happy to let you transplant.

Using these strategies, our homestead has become a shady refuge.

Jennie Butler
Paradise, Utah

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