How To Design Front And Backyard Garden

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How to design front and backyard garden. Create a lower maintenance garden that can be used for recreation and enjoyed for its beauty. Evergreen trees and colorful flowers create wonderful contrasts in the forecourt. In this front garden idea a mixture of annual and perennial flowers such as hydrangeas and petunias are used for a pop of color while a few evergreen bushes ensure year round greenery.

If your front yard is plagued with rocky soils build raised planting areas and fill them with healthy soil to provide a larger root zone for your plants. Place garden gates on the same plane as your front door. 15 modern front yard landscaping ideas.

Square pavers are embedded in the faux lawn near a narrow planting bed that features spanish olive trees and leads to a corner built in seating area. A garden gate is a doorframe or overhang that separates your front yard from your backyard. A great addition would be grapevines or blooming climbing roses.

For example in laying out one backyard i projected the lines of its building addition into the garden space and then aligned the swimming pool and wooden walkway with those lines. The result is orderly and cohesive even after being softened with planting. Create a relaxing environment.

Also mark on the plan the aspect of the sun where it sets where it rises and which parts of the garden get the most sun. It presents a delicious gallery of 28 garden designs in all manner of themes and styles to suit the home as well as the homeowner. If your front yard is enclosed put a garden gate in front of your front door to create a beautiful symmetry for your front yard.

Plan a garden lets you create design plans for anything from a patio container garden to a welcoming front walk to your whole yard. Along the front walkway dense plantings of golden barrel cactus provide color and interest all year long. Courtesy of julie witmer 11.