Your front garden is the perfect stage for picturesque bed, shrub and climbing roses. This guide is full of ideas on how to integrate the queen of flowers into your front garden design. A tangible planting plan with a creative combination of roses and perennials wants to inspire your imagination.
How can roses be designed in the front garden?
Front yard roses can be used as a welcoming committee at the entrance, creating visual depth or as a fencing. A combination with perennials such as candlesticks, lavender or foxglove creates idyllic compositions. Ground cover roses, like 'Knirps', suppress weeds effectively.
Roses like to hold court here in the front garden - ideas for design
The wide range of species and varieties offers the perfect rose for every garden style. In the modern front garden, white blooming roses and slender grasses add decorative accents. The romantic country house garden is embellished with lushly filled ornamental shrub roses in bright colors. The following design ideas would like to inspire you:
- On the trellis of the entrance gate as a floral welcoming committee
- Dark-blooming varieties as a backdrop to light-blooming flowers to create visual depth
- As a noble flowering enclosure that does not block the visitor's view
Ornamental shrub roses delight with their bushy, tightly upright growth up to 120 cm high and repeated blooms throughout the year. These rose types and varieties are therefore predestined to provide floral moments of happiness as a solitaire in the front garden.
Idyllic composition of roses and perennials - a planting plan as food for thought
Using the following exemplary planting plan, we would like to demonstrate how you can skillfully incorporate roses into the design of your front garden:
- Along the house facade, under the windows, the shrub rose 'Zaide' presents its double, dark pink flowers
- Flanking the entrance is the shrub rose 'Fastaff' with seductively scented, crimson-red flowers
- Square bed borders made of boxwood give the front garden structure
- In 2 of the mini beds, the floribunda roses 'Apple Blossom' and 'Cherry Girl' boast white or red flowers
- Perennials thrive in the remaining mini beds, such as magnificent candles (Gaura), lavender (Lavendula) or foxgloves (Digitalis)
Narrow paths with gravel and natural stone slabs invite you to stroll and make maintenance work easier. Only the curved entrance to the front door is 120 cm wide.
Tip
In the front garden without a lawn, small roses are useful as flower-rich ground cover. Special ground cover roses are characterized by slightly creeping growth, so that they also effectively suppress weeds. A prime example of this task is 'Knirps', which, with a width of 60 cm, remains at a height of 20 cm and blooms with lush, pink flowers several times a year.