Front garden design ideas can transform your home and make you feel welcome when you return home each day.
Whether you have a slim landing strip or a deep garden with a drive and parking, the front garden can work hard to welcome you home each day.
Front garden design ideas from colourful seasonal planting, improving soakaways and secure storage can make you feel good about your home, improve the view from front rooms and improve saleability if you’re looking to sell.
Garden design is problem solving, so when you’re faced with slim spaced, little or no soil, and issues like security, access and litter, garden design can give you a beautiful front garden.
Here’s how I approached these properties with front garden design ideas for a range of challenges.
The front garden design ideas I applied to this garden included:
adding textural and fashionable planting,
keeping the zingy shrub, simplifying the paving materials,
adding one small pot to the house wall and
instructing what type of soil would be best for this raised bed when the owner cannot commit to watering regularly.
The front garden design ideas employed for this next garden in London include:
Increasing the feeling of privacy and security with a low hedge of Lonicera nitida
Building up the planting around an existing multistem magnolia
As it’s north-facing and underneath a veteran London plane tree, planting as though it is woodland edge
Treating this as a soakaway for surrounding paved areas
Tidying as little as possible to make habitat for frogs present on the site
This front garden also has paves parking for two cars, electric car charger and bin store for the numerous bins required by council. This is a north-facing garden and yet has plenty of interest from leaf textures and bulbs in spring.
A leafy front garden design idea in London. Underneath a London plan tree, this garden is treated as a woodland edge soakaway.
