The Front Yard Landscape

Although a home with a few trees and a nice green lawn in front looks fine, there’s a lot to be said for a house that has an attractive front yard landscape design. Curb appeal is something many homeowners only consider when trying to sell their home, it should however, be on the mind of every homeowner who cares about keeping their biggest asset in top condition.

Curb appeal is quite simply the attractiveness your home has to viewers from the street and re-landscaping your front yard is a great way to give a new impressive look to your home. Front yard landscaping can be the most tried form of landscaping because everyone tends to focus primarily on the look of a house’s front yard. Sometime however this can be a problem as we can get caught trying to do things others have done but they may not be the right thing for your yard.
Using different plants is one of the easiest and the best front yard landscaping ideas that you can use. Ideas for plants are numerous and vary widely from person to person. Selecting the best plants is often the most tedious and demanding part of working out your front yard landscaping ideas because it requires knowledge of the plants and depends on things like: - light conditions, wind, and how much time you can spend on maintaining and caring for it. Etc.
You can use flowers to line your sidewalk leading to the front door or along your driveway or in flowerbeds that will accent the front of your home. Flowers of different colors can blend harmoniously in landscape designs and evoke different emotions. In landscaping designs, green is believed to have a healing effect, red and orange rouse excitement and energy, and blue relaxes and refreshes. Flowers are great, but don't forget the characteristics of a plant's branching pattern and foliage. Varying form and texture is one way to bring diversity.

To add scale to the front yard design, you could plant a tree someplace near the middle or one at each end of the yard. Although tree and shrub possibilities are limited by your space, don't despair! Dwarf varieties and slower growing trees such as Japanese maples can, and should, be used to provide focal points though in the confined area of a city garden, you do not want too many features to compete. I definitely like using some nice small evergreen trees as you can frame in the porch or front steps with them, however don’t plant them to close to the house or to each other. Nothing looks worse then overgrown trees covering up the front of your house.

Having a sitting area in your front yard is another idea your might want to try as it can create a wonderful place to visit with neighbors, observe the daily happenings on your street or even watch your kids while they play. Of course you will need something both attractive and comfortable to sit on like a teak wave bench from Teaks n More.

The beauty of home front yard landscaping is that it does not have to be hard and much of it can be done by you. All it will take is a little elbow grease and some time to spare and you can design your own home front yard landscape quickly and easily. Invest a little time and energy to achieve the aesthetic appeal you want for your front yard, and it may turn out to be one of the most rewarding investments you make.

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