The front garden is the first thing that catches your eye when you enter the territory of a private property. The garden plot in front of the house or a small part of it is a kind of visiting card of the owner and the first impression of the visit often depends on its (plot) appearance.
The front garden can be of different sizes. It all depends on the possibilities of the territory adjacent to the house. With a great love for your home and for nature, as well as with a great desire to realize your creative ideas, the site can become a wonderful and unique decoration. This will require skillful hands, perseverance and patience. And you don't have to have a lot of experience in gardening or complete courses in landscape designers. Almost everyone is able to equip a plot adjacent to the house, if you know a few simple rules for decorating a front garden.
Practical advice on how to make the right front garden
Before starting work, it is necessary to draw up a mini-project of the front garden, in which you need to take into account the size of the land plot, choose a style and imagine the finished result. With such planning, it will be clear what plants will be required for the front garden and what additional materials and elements are needed to maintain an overall harmonious look.
Any plants can grow in the front garden, which will not exceed two-thirds of the height of the dwelling in height. You can use herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees of various types and varieties. The main thing is that all representatives of the flora do not hide their home ownership behind them.
The selection of plants is recommended taking into account the illumination of the garden area. In an area with insufficient sunlight, shade-tolerant specimens should be planted during the day, and most of the species and varieties of the plant family can grow on the sunny side.
In order for the area adjacent to the house to look stylishly strict and attractive throughout the year, it is worth using perennial evergreens for planting. The most suitable are: Pine and spruce, juniper, different varieties cypress, thuja and unpretentious yucca... Such perennial flowering representatives of flora such as sage, iris, daylily, anemone, yarrow, cuff and rudbeckia do not require much time and effort for care and maintenance, but they will serve as a wonderful decoration of the front garden for many years.
For those who love change and want to surprise others every summer season, you can plant annual herbaceous plants on the site - this is petunias, marigolds, zinnias or ageratum. A bright palette of colors will transform the front garden and cheer up its visitors.
Do not limit yourself to planting vegetation if the large area of the front garden allows you to give free rein to your imagination. With your own hands, you can build a small pond, a fountain or an alpine slide with spectacular ground cover perennials.
If the size of the front garden is minimal, then you can decorate the house with the help of weaving perennial flowering plants, which can be used to decorate the hedge, fence and walls of the dwelling.Sophistication and individuality to the house will be given by those weaving along the wall roses or ivy, clematis or honeysuckle, capsis or wisteria.
The use of flowerpots and baskets (floor and hanging) is recommended in tiled areas. Plants in such containers, placed around the entire perimeter, on the steps at the entrance, will give the local area uniqueness and originality.
The introduction of Japanese-Chinese motives will make the front garden unusual and bring calmness to the hectic and rhythmic everyday life. You can build a stone lantern and decorate it with group plantings of flowering plants (for example, irises, astilba, hosts) and large stones of unusual shape.
The use of garden sculptures in the form of fairy-tale characters, animals and various unusual objects is usually very popular with children. Such a front garden will become a popular vacation spot for the younger generation and an original project in the eyes of older visitors.
Front garden care
In order for the front garden to always look neat, attractive and well-groomed, regular maintenance is required. It consists in timely watering and removal of weeds, in loosening and fertilizing the soil, in regular seasonal pruning and replanting as needed. Do not forget about preventive measures related to possible diseases and harmful insects.
The front garden is not only the aesthetic component of the site, but also a great mood throughout the year, as well as a feeling of coziness and unity with nature, an opportunity for a comfortable pastime.
