Front Yard Landscaping

There are many features involved in making your front landscaping not only functional but attractive as well.  Included below are the primary features you will want to consider in the planning and design of your front landscaping
 
For the most attractive and beneficial use of your front landscaping grounds, you will want to include most of the features outlined below in your plans. Such vital essentials as a good lawn, paths, walks and thriving shade trees, are often taken for granted, yet they are usually the most difficult to acquire, and may end up absorbing a major part of your initial effort, as well as your front landscaping
budget. 

On the other hand, a front landscaping project such as an outdoor living room, cooking and entertaining facilities, may have been overlooked in the past because it sounded too difficult to achieve.  And yet these seemingly difficult features can add  a great deal to your enjoyment and may, depending on what type you choose, be obtained with relatively little effort and cost!
 
Front Landscaping Essentials

Trees—For Shade and Beauty – Perhaps if any one feature can be singled out as basic to successful landscaping, it is the presence of fine trees.  The unfortunate trend of developers cutting down trees in a wholesale manner, and the increased use of treeless fields for new building, has focused attention on the property owner who usually must begin with nothing when it comes to trees. Architects agree that a single shade tree, even of medium height, can make a tremendous difference in the comfort and livability of your front landscaping.

A Good Lawn – A basic requirement for attractive and enjoyable front landscaping is a good lawn. When planting a tree you do so realizing that you are planting for years to come, even for future generations. Few realize, however, that fine lawns must be planted in the same spirit.

Flowers – You will want flowers for cutting, as well as flowers for contributing cheerfulness and charm to your front landscaping. The aim of the successful gardener is to have a regular succession of flowers from early spring to late fall.  You can plan from the start to have perennials which bloom at different seasons, (for example, iris, which reaches the peak of its bloom just as the peony season begins). 

Foundation Planting – The special planting which is set close to the house is called foundation planting and has great importance to front landscaping since it can improve and enhance the proportions of your house, as well as relate the house to the grounds.

Outdoor Living Room – One way to extend your house is to use your outdoor space to full advantage. And many homeowners make rooms look larger by visually extending them into the lawn or garden.

Service Area – Plan to have your service area out of sight of the front landscaping yet close enough so that it is convenient. 

Paths and Walks – Planning your front landscaping driveway and walks, so that they take up a minimum amount of room and yet provide a strong enough surface for the traffic they will bear, calls for careful thinking.

Garden Pools and Fountains – Water, in almost any form, enriches your front landscaping and delights the senses.

Check out some of our other posts to learn more about front landscaping.

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