Two components increase the amount of care required in the front garden: constantly sprouting weeds and a demanding lawn. This guide explains how you can eliminate both factors and create a low-maintenance, tasteful front garden.
How do you design an easy-care front garden?
To create an easy-care front garden, you should reduce weeds and lawns, lay weed fabric and use uncomplicated plants such as hornbeam bushes, cranesbills and evergreen hollies. Paved areas and attractive boundaries ensure an attractive and low-maintenance appearance.
Planning and preparatory work
A true-to-scale drawing sets the stage for a successful front garden that takes all important aspects into account. The more specifically you plan, the better you will keep costs under control. Before you can devote yourself to the creative part of the work, target any lurking weeds with these preparation tasks:
- Clear and level the entire area
- Peel off old lawn, carefully remove stones, roots and all weeds
- Lay weed fleece with a thickness of 80 to 150 g/m²
- Cover with peat-free potting soil or sifted garden soil
If you are creating a front garden with paved areas or gravel beds, dig the soil to a depth of 20 cm before laying weed film.
Idea for an easy-care front garden for replanting
The following planting suggestion describes how to create an easy-care front garden. Instead of weeds and lawns, uncomplicated plants in bright colors and with shapely leaf structures thrive behind a beautiful boundary. Get inspired here:
- As a privacy screen: hornbeam bushes alternating with magenta-red elements made of spruce, larch or robinia
- The entrance is flanked by evergreen holly (Ilex) 'Silver Queen' and cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) 'Otto Lykens
- The pipe bush (Philadelphus) 'Schneesturm' and ball hydrangea 'Annabelle' provide summer flowers
- The house tree is the bird cherry (Prunus padus) 'Albertii' with white spring flowers and black-red fruits
- Storksbill (Geranium) 'Biokovo' and foam blossom (Tiarella cordifolia) 'Brandywein' lie at the feet of the house tree
A place for the children to play should not be missing in the family household. A paved area with a dwarf fruit trunk at its center, such as sweet cherries (Prunus avium 'Stella Compact'), is perfect. A magenta red plant bowl next to the entrance door serves as a creative eye-catcher, decoratively planted with the easy-care ornamental grass Carpet Japanese Sedge (Carex morowii) 'Silver Scepter'.
Tip
Include the facade in the creative front garden design. You can do this by attaching a trellis so that clematis, roses, black-eyed Susans or hydrangeas with beautiful flowers can be showcased. The additional planting area makes the small front garden appear larger than it actually is.
