Cover the plant floor to hide unsightly areas. Plant evergreen shrubs in front of your house. Make a garden bed around your mailbox. Take out the old mulch and refresh it.
Build a flower bed around a tree. Don't fill your front yard with lots of objects or plants. They have a clear structure in the design and an obvious focal point. Do all your gardening projects before placing any plant.
Hard landscaping can include a porch, sidewalk, driveway, parking areas, decks, fences, patios, and gazebos. These projects usually involve construction, which can compact soil or damage lawns and plantations, so it's important to complete any heavy lifting before plantations begin. It dominates a sloping front patio with terraced planters. A combination of annuals, perennials and evergreens ensures interest for several seasons, even when snow flies.
The stairs, bed frames and arched trellises next to the front patio have the same shade of brown that allows the harsh landscape to fade into the background so that the plants shine. Designed by an HGTV On_The_East_Twin fan, informal plantations complement this quaint cabin, built in 1937 and published in HGTV Magazine. Boxwood and other evergreen trees blend seamlessly with the house's yellow exterior, echoing the intense green of the shutters and doors. A planter and a blue planter next to the stairs provide places of sizzling annual color that can change with the seasons.
The intricate textures of the plants and the colors of the leaves fill the landscape that surrounds this perfect Victorian home. Just as architectural details attract attention in the house, evergreen shrubs and trees weave a striking tapestry around them. White-flowered annuals and perennials embroider colored knots on plantations. Designed by HGTV Babycates fans With its fairytale qualities, this 1923 home in Fairfield, Connecticut called for lush plantations brimming with flowers.
The plant palette offers fragrance, interest for all seasons and flowers in abundance, with red roses covering the ground, mophead hydrangeas and a weeping cherry tree. This house appeared in HGTV magazine. Exotic locations demand bold colors, and this Orlando, Florida front yard doesn't disappoint. The foundation plantations have a row of tin plants (Cordyline fruticosa), which spread their leaves in intense pink tones.
Those sizzling tones contrast beautifully with the bright blue front door, while blending perfectly with the stair tiles. The bowl-shaped pots give the finishing touch, with curves that stand out against the straight lines of the Mediterranean-style house. A cheerful yellow exterior looks great paired with a cozy salmon-colored front door in this 1976 home in Charlotte, North Carolina, which appeared in HGTV Magazine. Instead of opting for traditional foundation plantations, the owners changed a strip of grass for large flower beds that fit the scale of the house.
A winding brick path meanders through the landscape, featuring a mix of easy-care shrubs and perennials that fill the front yard with soft seasonal color. This huntsman green colonial features a front patio that exudes the charm of a cabin garden. A stepped fence adorns a golden skirt of annual marigolds and perennial coral chimes (Heuchera) that evoke a duo of gold-thread cypresses (Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea') that flank the porch. Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) forms a purple drift on both sides of the sidewalk, repeating the bright purple petunias in the paired urns next to the porch.
A standard tree finishes foundation plantations with a storybook style. Intense teal, white details and brick-red steps update this bungalow-inspired house with a modern riff in colors in red, white and blue. Carefully trimmed evergreen hedges translate the house's rigid lines into the landscape, while boxwood “balls” inject striking curves. A cluster of shrub roses adds another layer of the accent color red to this house's palette.
Built in 1928, this Providence, Rhode Island home appeared in HGTV magazine. Traditional Tudor architecture features a mix of materials, and landscape plantations play with that theme using shades of green and white. Variegated leaves occupy a central place in street hosts and in pointed irises near the house. The white flowers of the kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) glow in spring, followed by oak leaf hydrangeas with white flowers near the sidewalk in summer.
The small spaces have luxurious plantations with planters and large containers. The identical planting designs maintain the cohesive appearance and feature annual plants such as sweet potato, coleus, petunia and begonia. In sidewalk containers, purple fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') adds height as a suspense plant. A large PeeGee hydrangea is tucked into the narrow planting strip, demonstrating how versatile these hydrangeas are.
Design by kmphelps, HGTV fan. A yellow door illuminates this bleak environment with a touch of sunny color. The flower beds embellish the simple lines of the house with soft curves that complement the driveway. The landscape reflects the yellow door with gold-thread cypress bushes (Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea').
Burgundy tones introduce a secondary tone to the palette through a weeping Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) and coral chimes (Heuchera) along the way. Variegated green and white hosts complete the picture. This house appeared on HGTV's Cousins Undercover. Three gables, three steps to the porch and three colors raise this Detroit front yard from simple to splendid.
The green accent on the pillars and base of the porch plunges into the landscape through evergreen corner trees and a trio of silver Chinese grass (Miscanthus sinensis, “Gracillimus”), which adds vertical interest to flower beds. Yellow thoughts give color during cold seasons. This attractive design was published in the magazine HGTV. This Dutch colonial home in Essex County, New Jersey, welcomes guests to a charming front patio equipped with storybook plants and a comfortable patio.
A curved brick cobblestone walk leads through garden beds that include canna lilies, Bolivian begonias, bearded irises and bee balm. A weeping cherry tree from White Snow Fountain brings interest to the small garden for several seasons and will never exceed space. Built in 1885, this Detroit home features a classic Queen Anne design. Formal boxwood hedges enclose PeeGee hydrangea shrubs (Hydrangea paniculata).
It's a contrast between the textures of cropped and ordered plants versus loose and romantic ones, but the look works with this architectural wonder of living history. Hanging baskets add color to the wraparound front porch. Long, plentiful windows welcome natural light to this Boulder, Colorado home that appeared in HGTV Magazine. A cheerful yellow door hints at this owner's love story with the bright sun of the mountain region.
Roses border the porch, which has an open railing to let in light. A picket fence and a winding driveway complete the cozy cabin atmosphere of this front patio. This classic colonial house was built in 1939 in Fairfield, Connecticut. The symmetrical lines, double windows and the lantern style lamp capture the charm of a bygone era.
A bright blue door attracts guests, and mirrored flower beds filled with boxwood and other shrubs flank the porch. Cheerful gardeners are brimming with bright red geranium flowers and soften the architectural lines of the house. A crying cherry blossom, boxwood shrubs, varied hostas and a vinca vine that hugs the ground make this perfect bungalow an impressive masterpiece. Porch planters and container gardens raise color above lawn level, and a rocking chair invites quiet contemplation of beauty.
This Detroit house appeared in HGTV magazine. Stone details, painted brick and red front door help this Alexandria, Virginia home provide a warm welcome on the East Coast. Built in 1946, the house features impressive foundation plantations, such as low-growing mugo pine (Pinus mugo), blue atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula') and upright cedar and gold-thread cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea'). The landscape weaves a tapestry of texture and color that shines against the white walls of the house.
A brick walkway brings a charming character to the period house, with a pair of landscaped roses greeting guests and passers-by. Landscape highlights include a crapeo, a myrtle, ferns, variegated liriopes, impatients and hydrangeas. It's important to match your landscaping to the style of your home, so we offer you a variety of options, from elegant and modern to traditional and elegant. But don't be discouraged by the aesthetic terms balance, scale, unity, and the like used by designers.
You'll also need to determine if you prefer a formal or informal setting and if your site requires it. The repetition of color blocks is a basic principle of garden design that works just as well in a plantation in rows of fences as it does on the edges of large gardens. From adding colorful plantations that will bloom all summer long to adding distinctive specimen plantations that add character to your landscape. Just remember that curb appeal is important, but no matter how beautiful your landscape is, it should be functional.
In addition to providing structures, larger trees and shrubs, and buildings, form the masses of the landscape. All the elements of good design come into play as you organize your components for the ideal front yard. If you're wondering where to start a landscape transformation, look no further than your front yard. This house in Lido Key, Florida, features a palm tree alley, a parallel row of trees that borders a passage in a landscape.
Although simple and monochromatic, the tight-leaved branches of boxwood shrubs can be easily molded into any number of designs. Mulch makes the landscape look finished, but it also helps the soil retain moisture and keeps weeds under control. A low privacy wall surrounds the property, with succulent bowls perched on pillars that designate the formal entrance to this front patio. .
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