The low-maintenance garden as a compulsory choice to curb rising operating costs

“The design of a garden begins by laying the last plant,” the famous phrase of Pietro Porcinai in defining how the Landscape Designer must know both garden architecture and agronomy and botany to perfection, shows even more today, how much the design of a garden can, and must do a lot, in the ease of its management over the years. In recent times, management costs have increased, just as water management has become a serious problem in some areas. Increasingly, the designer must strike the right balance between risk factors and the need to always provide the perception of a harmonious, welcoming and exclusive place.