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If you live in a private house, then you have the opportunity to fully realize your creative potential. It can mainly be displayed in the care and arrangement of the local area. So, many decide to make a front garden with their own hands. At first glance, it may seem that everything is simple here. However, if you want it to please you all year round, then it is important to think through everything to the smallest detail. Today, many options for its design are known, while some even turn to designers, but after carefully researching this material, as well as looking at the photos and videos in this article, you will be able to do everything yourself. Your front garden will be a real decoration for your home.
Advantages and disadvantages
It is important to understand that the front part of the house is the most prominent and it is on it that they pay attention in the first place. For this reason, the design of the front garden is carried out with special care. If we talk about the pros in favor of the front garden, then this is an excellent landscape design. The house territory, that is, the front garden will have an excellent decorative function. In some cases, the front garden can even hide some of the shortcomings of the house, and if there are advantageous sides, then, on the contrary, emphasize it. In general, a beautifully groomed area near the house will be pleasing not only to your eyes, but to everyone around you.
However, the front garden in front of the house also has disadvantages. First of all, it takes a lot of time to take care of him. After all, growing plants or flowers may need to be trimmed, watered, fertilized, or other types of care are needed in time. It also takes time to clean up the area from fallen leaves. It is necessary to loosen the soil in time so that the flowers / plants are not stunted. As you can see, a do-it-yourself front garden has a main disadvantage – a considerable amount of time for care.
Varieties of front gardens and design design
All front gardens are divided into two types of fencing:
- Open front gardens.
- Closed front gardens.
In the first case, the beauty of the front garden in front of the house can be observed both from the street and from the side of the house. If it is closed, then this element of landscape design will definitely have a fence. Among other things, the design of the front garden in front of the house also differs. Let’s briefly list the most common ones.
European
In this case, the front garden in front of the house will have clear geometric lines, in which strictness and proportions will be observed. A free approach to design is not welcome here. Mostly in this style, the presence of a massive hedge is excluded.
This type of front garden in front of the house must have a building envelope. There are no requirements for compliance with the severity of all lines. The main requirement of the front garden is a beautiful design that will please the eye.
Oriental
With this design, decors, stones, conifers will be used. The plants are predominantly dwarf.
Mediterranean
Here it is necessary to use a large number of flowering flowers and trees growing in small containers. You can install all kinds of sculptures, lanterns and other decor. There must be a bench, a table and a small canopy for shelter from the sun and rain.
Rustic
This style partly overlaps with French. Just like the French style, rustic emphasizes the natural features of the landscape. In the rustic style, all kinds of decors are used, for example, a cart, a broken earthenware jug, and so on.
Romantic
If you are a romantic at heart, then you can decorate the front garden in this style. There are all kinds of arches here, and flowers / plants should braid all the fences. In this case, the flowers should be long-blooming and beautiful.
French
French style, also known as Provence. This style of decorating the front garden in front of the house combines lightness, beauty, freedom and love. The French style will allow you to enjoy beautiful plants / flowers and decoration of the local area every day.
This is a brief description of some front garden styles. On the Internet, you can find a lot of other ideas on how best to decorate the local area near your private home.
Design development
So, now let’s get down to direct design and planning, remember, our main goal is to create a beautiful front garden in front of the house. Therefore, it is necessary to consider what flowers will be planted. Do you want them to bloom continuously, right up to frost. What type of flower bed is best to organize. There are several varieties of it:
- Mixborder. A complex composition of various and flowering plants. Including planted decorative flowers. Although this composition is complex, it is very popular.
- Border. By this is meant a path leading through a small area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbflowering flower beds to the house and landscaped with a curb.
- Alpine hill. In this case, a kind of imitation of a mountain landscape is created. It will require stones and all kinds of ornamental plants and flowers.
- Rabatka. If the front garden in front of the house has the shape of a rectangle, then all the flowers / plants can be planted in even rows.
Choice of colors
Having decided on how to decorate the front garden in front of the house, it is necessary to solve another question – which flowers to choose in the front garden in front of the house. Usually preference is given to perennial plants and flowers. Ornamental trees and shrubs are often used. Among these shrubs may be:
- Juniper ordinary.
- Boxwood evergreen.
- Barberry common.
- Thunberg, etc.
As for the choice of trees, most often these are standard ones, which allow organizing the decoration of the tree trunks with flower arrangements. This category includes standard thuja western or sharp-leaved maple.
As for flowers, this is perhaps an endless topic. There are a large number of varieties of flowers, so we will only give you a general direction. If you want the front garden to delight you all year round, then preference is given to perennial flowers that bloom until the first frost. Among the perennials, one can recall violas, forget-me-nots and primroses. In the middle of spring, in May, blooming daffodils would look good. In the first two months of summer (June/July), tiger lilies, peonies, irises, Turkish carnations, marigolds, petunias, nasturtiums, chrysanthemums, and phloxes bloom. At the end of summer, chrysanthemums and asters can also please the eyes.
This is a small direction on how you can arrange a front garden with your own hands. Additionally, it is worth highlighting several important features when choosing ornamental plants and flowers:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Place of planting | For some colors, the sunny side is important or, conversely, a shade. Therefore, this should be taken into account when choosing a suitable place in the front garden in front of the house. For example, if your local area is mostly located on the sunny side, then planting gladioli, phlox, lupinia, aster, petunias, peonies, and daisies would be an excellent solution. If the territory is shaded, then give preference to fern, hosts, forget-me-nots. |
| Flowering period | In this matter, it is also worthwhile to calculate everything correctly. Otherwise, all the flowers will bloom in one month and that’s it. All flowers are divided into several categories, for example, early flowering: primroses, daisies, lilies of the valley, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses. Medium flowering: cosmos, nasturtiums, marigolds, bluebells, phloxes, daylilies, irises, peonies. Late flowering: chrysanthemums, asters, dahlias. |
| Plant/flower height | In this category, flowers are also divided into species. Tall: eland, lupine, gladiolus, foxglove, delphinium. Sredneroslye: rudbeckia, bluebell, salvia, poppy, chamomile. Undersized: nasturtium, pansies, purslane, scabiosis. Given this, it is possible to combine the growth and color of all plants and flowers. In this case, you will get a great composition. |
| Life period | There are three categories of flowers according to their lifespan: annuals, biennials and perennials. Annuals: snapdragons, asters, cosmos, marigolds, petunias. Biennial: pansies, daisies, digitalis, Turkish cloves. Perennials: rudbeckia, iris, daylily, lupine, chamomile, calla lilies, gladiolus, dahlias. |
If you do not yet have experience in caring for a front garden, then give preference to unpretentious plants and flowers. In this case, you will simultaneously gain experience, and also will not spend a lot of time.
You may wish to plant ornamental shrubs. There is a wide variety of them and they can really give the local area bright colors. For example, wild rose, budley, hawthorn. You may want to build an arch, then climbing plants / flowers are perfect. They can protect windows and the house from dust. For example, it can be climbing roses, wisteria, honeysuckle, kampsis and more.
Coniferous plants will look no less original. And given that they are evergreen, throughout the year they will smooth out the gloomy autumn everyday life. So, juniper, yew, boxwood, thuja, dwarf spruce can be attributed to winter plants.
Around such a design with flowers, a slide with a waterfall or other decorative elements will look beautiful. Even if you fail to think through everything to the smallest detail, then along the way you can always change something.
Conclusion
So, we have considered all the features of how to make a front garden in front of the house. As you can see, there are no strict and specific rules. Everything is taken into account solely from tastes and preferences. We hope that this material has provided food for thought for you, and in addition, we suggest watching an interesting video:
