These smart, stylish front yard landscaping ideas will help you put your home’s best face forward.
The best front yard landscaping ideas increase your curb appeal, ultimately adding value to your home.
Embrace Cottage Style
Plantingcolorful bloomersalways makes your yard feel more welcoming.
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Acottage-styleplan can include various perennials in a small yard.
Beautify a Slope
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Grassy slopescan be hard to maintain.
Keep it easy to care for and weed-free bycovering the entire slopewith your favorite plants.
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Let Nature be Your Guide
Embrace nature’s instincts in your yard simply by following its lead.
Select plants and other landscape materials native to your region.
Thebirds and butterfliesyour front yard attracts will enchant you and your guests.
Incorporate abirdbathor bird feeder in your yard to attract even more birds.
Set a Formal Tone
Beds of tidyboxwoodframing green and whitecaladiumcan create a classic front yard landscape.
Choose fromgroundcovers, dwarf shrubs, andlarge trees.
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Plus, evergreen foliage offers a wealth of textures and colors.
Create a Buffer
Pack a smallfront yardwith medium-sized plants to help shield the home from street noise.
Spend time looking out from your windows as you design.
That way, you will enjoy the view looking out as much as passersby enjoy looking into the garden.
Install a simple drip irrigation system to make containers easier to maintain.
In this Southern California yard, the homeowner planted drifts oflow-water plantsfor organized stripes of color.
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Play off the Architecture
The best front yard landscaping complements the home’s architecture.
Here,landscape designer Leslie Bennettplayed off the wood shingles of the home with a warm wood fence.
Use Space Smartly
Small city properties aren’t limited to foundation shrubs andpostage-stamp lawns.
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Repeat an element to bring continuity to the design and keep the landscape from looking helter-skelter.
However, good landscaping gets them noticed.
For example, use anornamental arboror fence to call attention to the house and mark the entrance.
Create colorful curb appeal with a mix of annual and perennial flowers along the front of your green screen.
Practice succession planting so something is in bloom from spring though summer.
Here, potted and hanging plants extend the greenery to the porch, too.
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This intrepid Pennsylvania gardener combined hardy palms with hot-colored flowers for a lush look.
Some plants may needextra protection like blankets and lightsduring chilly winters.
This yard expertly combines mounding shrubs with wispier grasses so each plant stands out.
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A pair oftopiary treesbring the eye up and emphasize the front door.
In this case, the intricate brick-and-stone detailing calls for a similarly decorative landscape.
The lines of the low boxwood hedge complement the architecture of the porch and lend an air of formality.
Play off colors, as well.
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