Landscaping in the front yard achieves hiding features in the home's architecture, emphasizing exciting architectural details, and greeting visitors at the front door. Today we will give you a few tips on how you could design your front garden. With good planning, you can add a little personality to your home and significantly increase its value.
The shrubs and trees form the backbone of your landscaping and will last for years to come, making them a great choice. The landscape should therefore not only be decorative, but also functional. Choose plants that coordinate with the size of your home. Boxwoods look good in a small garden, but would look Lilliputian in front of a large family home. Consider potential maintenance issues before selecting your plantings. You may enjoy having a well-maintained hedge until you learn that it needs to be trimmed every two weeks. Also consider the mature height of any deciduous tree you plan to plant near the house. Incorrect height can lead to clogged gutters.
Select trees and shrubs that can accentuate a pleasant view or block an unsightly one. If you decide to create a privacy hedge for the neighboring house, choose mixed plant varieties. If a specimen dies, you can replace it without leaving a weird gap. Plant the tallest shrubs in the background while keeping smaller ones in the front.
Pops of color and a pleasant scent can welcome friends and family. Plant hyacinths right outside your front door where visitors can enjoy the colors and scent. Trees can still reduce the effects of wind and bad weather. Deciduous trees can block summer heat and allow winter sun to shine through their bare branches.
Create an accent using an ornamental shrub. You can also choose an evergreen plant with a topiary. Otherwise, flowering shrubs are a very good choice. It is not uncommon to find the attractive rhododendron in front gardens, which can impress with a wide variety of flower colors. Whether as a single plant or combined with other species, thanks to its size it is and remains without a doubt the highlight.
A particularly low-maintenance option is to use more paving stones or tiles with just a few beds here and there instead of lots of lawn and beds. You can also plant the flower beds with easy-care plants. Succulents, for example, are well suited and create beautiful color effects even when they are not in bloom. Raised beds are particularly interesting and you can also consider them.
If there is little space, a minimalist front garden design can be wonderfully implemented. Square elements made of tiles, gravel beds and some evergreen shrubs, for example, ensure that the garden looks tidy and well-kept and do not make it look even more cramped. In addition, the sparing use of plants makes the entrance area particularly easy to care for. Busy people might definitely like this idea.
If you don't necessarily value colorful flowers, you can play with the different nuances and leaf shapes of evergreen plants instead. So you have the choice between light green and dark green leaf colors, which can also be wonderfully combined with each other. You should also choose plants whose leaves turn a bright red color in autumn so that the area in front of the house looks nice even in the cold season.
Don't forget the decoration when designing. Be it stones, garden figures or lights. Garden lamps also have the advantage that you can illuminate the entrance area and paths. So if the visitor arrives a little later or leaves later, the lamps ensure a trip-free path to the street. And in addition, your painstaking work can be viewed again.
Larger beds can also be designed, although the rest can be impressive with a simple lawn. If it is on a slope, you can either create the bed on a slope or use a raised bed that you can decorate with any stones to make it even more attractive. How you plant the plant bed depends on your taste on the one hand and the location on the other.
The most original elements can be put together with gravel. Apart from the simple gravel bed, you can create garden paths made of pebbles or imitate a stream like this. Really clever, isn't it? Then plant ground cover or other low plants all around, which not only make the decoration appear more natural, but also do not obscure the work of art.
You can create such spots with bearskin grass. The plant is again a suitable species for the minimalist front garden style. It is very suitable both as a single plant and in groups. The lush green grasses are particularly effective in the midst of light gravel. Even higher-growing grasses can then be planted in the background.
White gravel creates a modern and tidy look and is a wonderful surface for flower beds. In addition, the moisture is stored better under the stones after watering because they do not heat up as much in the sun. Again, look at how the green plants are highlighted. Lights can also easily be used in a gravel bed.
A garden looks just as tidy and accurate if it has a few shrubs and trees with topiary trimmings. In combination with a short-cut and green lawn, the outdoor area looks much more attractive. For a variety of colors, it is best to combine several types of plants that can be cut and shaped.
