A beautifully designed boundary is the icing on the cake in creative front garden design. In order to stylishly shield the property without scaring away visitors or annoying the neighbors, there are important aspects to consider. This guide is packed with important tips for skillfully fencing your front garden.
What options are there for a front garden boundary?
A stylish front garden boundary can be achieved using picket fences, dry stone walls, gabion walls, conifer hedges, boxwood hedges, mixed hedges or ornamental grasses. The design should take into account the architectural style of the house, the planting and local regulations.
Height is not freely selectable – you should pay attention to this
If your front garden borders a public street, the legislature has a say in the height. In various regions, municipalities are even getting involved in the specific design. Before you start planning work, please contact the local authorities so that the local regulations can be taken into account when designing your front garden boundary.
If a boundary marks the boundary with the neighbor, pay particular attention to the regulations in neighborhood law. Each federal state prescribes precise distances that must not be exceeded. If you decide on a hedge, it should be clarified in advance how the care work will be carried out on both sides of the bushes.
Stylish component in the overall picture – ideas for the front garden boundary
Regardless of legal requirements, the demarcation of the front garden is not a stylistic foreign body in the overall picture. What is more important is a harmonious coordination between the architectural style of the house, the plants and the fencing. The following collection of ideas shows creative solutions:
- Demarcation in country house style: picket fence with flowering fence peepers or low dry stone wall
- Modern fencing: waist-high, narrow gabion wall or conifer hedge
- Japanese-inspired frame: evergreen boxwood hedge with geometric topiary
- Natural design: mixed hedge of evergreen and flowering hedge bushes
A stylistically neutral design of the front garden boundary can be achieved with all kinds of grasses. The spectrum extends more magnificently from the delicate mosquito grass (Bouteloua gracilis) for full sun locations to the mushroom head sedge (Carex digitata hybrid) for the shady north side Ornamental grasses for decorative fencing. Creative gardeners make sure that flowers and perennials from the front garden are repeated in the boundary. This stylistic trick underlines the harmonious effect in the overall picture.
Tip
For the front garden on a busy street, the desire for a privacy screen as a demarcation is understandable. Instead of visually overwhelming the mostly small garden area with a mighty wall, slender hedge bushes, such as the columnar yew (Taxus baccata), act as an evergreen enclosure.
