Quick, cheap easy ways to make a garden more appealing

[Phteven]

We're putting our house on the market. It's had a tenant in it who hasn't given the garden much love.
We're getting the place mown tomorrow and I've given the roses a quick prune.
Does anyone have any ideas that will make it look a bit more appealing without costing much? It doesn't have to last long - just until it's sold.
There is a patio out the back. I was thinking of putting a bit of cheap potted colour there.

[ss_storm]

I got some flowering plants from our local nursery for $1 each a couple of weeks ago, they were just pansies/daisies etc but they are nice and colourful and brighten the place up a bit. The potted colour plants are always great for a bit of colour and don't require much attention (lucky for me because I'm a plant killer...lol)

[Epacris]

Mulch the garden beds. Get the mulch delivered in bulk from one of the big landscape supply companies (e.g. Materials in the Raw, Australian Native Landscapes). The cheapest mulch is recycled tree prunings and is about $20-30 per cubic meter. You’d probably need about 5m3 for an average garden. It is so worth it, it makes everything look so neat and tidy.

And give everything a light prune, mow, edge and sweep.

[Beach Mama]

Yeah I agree - cheap potted pansies are great, and a few bags of red mulch scattered over beds make it look tidier. We bought this place and they didn't even bother planting stuff but put red mulch over every bed and it looked much nicer than scraps of dirt and grass!

[Junglemum]

We spent about $600 on my brothers garden to sell it, and made a huge difference. Mulch, garden edging, a couple of new plants and we oiled the deck. For the garden edging we just used that thin flexible timber from Bunnings. Worth the money.