A country house-style front garden demonstrates a hospitable lifestyle. This can be achieved with a skilful combination of a stylish garden fence, natural paths and beautiful plants. Browse here for tips and ideas on how to create a rural front garden design.
How do you design a country house style front garden?
To create a country-style front garden, combine a white wooden picket fence, curved paths made of natural stone or gravel, and a selection of flowering shrubs, small trees and colorful flowers such as hydrangeas, butterfly lilac, ball trumpet tree, Bertram's sheaf and peonies.
Designing an enclosure in a country house style – rural impressions in wood
In the country house style front garden design, the fencing also serves as a decorative element. A front garden without a fence appears open, but also impersonal. A low garden fence made of white wooden slats welcomes your guests in a more familiar and inviting way. So that the gate catches the eye of your visitors, it is given a different color or an arch shape with decorative posts. An antique door latch (€6.00 on Amazon) rounds off the entrance area beautifully.
Creating paths in rural style – naturalness is the key
Strictly geometric shapes contradict the romantic country house style. Therefore, lay out the paths with a slightly curved course. As a covering, we recommend natural stone slabs, inexpensive polygonal slabs or white gravel with colored stepping stones. Although the main path is aesthetically perfectly integrated into the picturesque appearance, it should be 120 cm wide enough to easily transport even bulky items into the house. Small side paths, on the other hand, can be designed as an enchanted path under a rose-covered arcade and with bark mulch as a surface.
Floral finishing touches for the rural front garden – beautiful planting ideas
A creative composition of bushes, perennials and flowers stylishly rounds off the romantic ambience in the country house front garden. The following plants fulfill this task brilliantly:
- Flowering shrubs as eye-catchers, such as hydrangeas (Hydrangea) or butterfly lilac (Buddleja davidii)
- Small trees as guiding figures, such as the ball trumpet tree 'Nana' (Catalpa bignoides)
- Romantic perennials, such as Bertram's sheaf (Achillea ptarmica), peonies (Paeonia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis)
- Colorful signs of spring, such as snowdrops (Galanthus), daffodils (Narcissus) and tulips (Tulipa)
For an easy-care front garden design, we recommend integrating paved areas. Here you can place beautifully planted pots with the flowers of the season during the summer. Since rural and Mediterranean styles harmonize perfectly, terracotta pots with lavender bushes exude a southern holiday feeling.
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Functional areas are also indispensable in the front garden of a country house. Finally, the garbage cans or bicycles must be easy to reach. In order not to impair the overall elegant appearance, small hedges or green trellises hide pragmatic parking spaces from the view of visitors.