There is limited space in the garden in front of a semi-detached house. This fact, as well as the immediate proximity to neighbors, make the design a creative challenge. Find inspiration here on how you can transform the area in front of a semi-detached house into a dream garden using simple means.
How do you design the front garden of a semi-detached house?
Easy-care plants in harmonious colors or a fragrant flower garden are suitable for designing the front garden of a semi-detached house. Use partition walls for privacy, use guiding plants such as roses and plan at least 1.20 m width for access to the entrance door.
Easy to clean and inviting – design suggestion with white and yellow colors
Semi-detached houses are usually located in quiet, low-traffic residential areas. This opens up the option of integrating a seat into the design that invites you to linger. The following suggestion aims to create an easy-care and pleasing front garden:
- Two wooden partition walls provide lateral privacy protection
- As greenery on the left: Clematis viticella 'Kathryn Chapman' with white flowers from June to September
- As greenery on the right: 2 hollyhocks (Alc althaea suffrutescens) 'Parkallee' as flanking decoration
- Leading figure in the center: White weeping stem rose 'Hella' with yellow lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis) at her feet
In front of a wooden partition, place the seat in the form of a wooden bench on a gravel surface. Gray saintwort (Santolina chamaecyparissus), girl's eye (Coreopsis lanceolata) and carpet myrtle aster 'Snowflurry' (Aster ericoides) harmonize with the yellow-white colors of the leading plants as ground cover.
Picturesque scented garden for your semi-detached house - How to do it
Design the front garden of your semi-detached house as a feast for the senses with fragrant flower stars and colorful filler perennials. The following species and varieties are perfect as main and supporting actors in your creative planting plan:
- Scented roses, such as double, white-pink 'Duchess Christiana' or cream-pink 'Constanze Mozart'
- Ornamental sage 'Marcus' (Salvia nemorosa) as a fragrant ground cover with violet-blue flowers
- Blumendost 'Herrhausen' (Origanum laevigatum) as a seductively scented demarcation from neighbors and the street
- Ornamental grasses as a delicate loosening, such as silvery-white flowering heron feather grass (Stipa barbata)
As an eye-catcher and guiding figure, we recommend either standard roses, small trees or a solitary flowering shrub for the semi-detached house. Recommended candidates are 'Rosengräfin Marie Henriette', the red-flowering beauty from the Perfuma line. Among the small trees, the Japanese weeping cherry (Prunus serrulata) delights with its lavish blossoms in spring. Buddleia (Prunus serrulata) is a top-class fragrance wonder.
Tip
The surface area of the front garden of your semi-detached house may be modest in size; Don't be stingy when measuring the path to the entrance door. Plan at least 1.20 m width so that two people can comfortably walk past each other.
