What are some of the features that you would include in the ...

[bcretired]

What are some of the features that you would include in the design of a low-maintenance landscape?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

When at a nursery, how can you check to make sure a dormant bareroot plant that you would like to buy is alive?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[leahchrapun]

Answer to Question 1

Extensive paving, raised planters, groundcover in lieu of grass, automatic irrigation, limited number of plants, low-maintenance plants, flowering shrubs in place of perennial and annual flowers, insect and disease-resistant plants

Answer to Question 2

Scrape a tiny area of the bark with your fingernail and check for green color underneath.

[bcretired]

TYSM

[bitingbit]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it