A raised bed can not only be used to protect your back when gardening. Instead, such a raised bed can also be used wonderfully as a decorative element and turns a boring driveway into an exciting garden project. After all, such a bed is more than just a wooden box that can be used to grow vegetables.
How can a raised bed be designed in the front garden?
A raised bed in the front garden offers a variety of design options: structuring the front garden, demarcating it from the street, creative and unusual designs, repurposing old objects or elegant gabion raised beds. The choice of material and planting has a decisive effect on the appearance.
Ideas for designing the front garden with raised beds
There are countless ideas for designing such a decorative raised bed - and basically there are no limits to your imagination. Basically, a wide variety of materials can be used to build a raised bed - exactly how you imagine your front garden. Whether elegant with stone walls or gabions filled with light stones or romantic and natural with wooden borders - there is a suitable bed for every style.
Structuring the front garden
Raised beds are ideal for structuring the front garden - for example by positioning different high beds to the right and left of the path to the house entrance. These look particularly interesting if you use the material of the path - for example light stone slabs - and, in contrast, build the raised beds from the same stone, just in a darker color.
Pretty natural stone wall as a barrier to the street
Masonry raised beds in particular are particularly suitable for delimiting the front garden from the street or public space instead of a fence. These raised beds can be planted with perennials and trees to ensure a certain level of privacy.
Creative raised beds for the front garden
If, on the other hand, the raised bed is not intended to be used to structure the front garden, but rather to serve as an eye-catcher, there are countless creative possibilities. For example, you can stack a few flat wooden boxes on top of each other to create a kind of spiral or simply fill an old tractor tire with potting soil and plant it with colorful summer flowers.
Converting various objects into raised beds
In general, a wide variety of objects can be transformed into an unusual raised bed in just a few simple steps. Old tubs made of enamel or zinc, old wheelbarrows made of wood or metal, old handcarts that are no longer needed, halved wooden barrels, Euro pallets, potato sacks and much more are suitable for this.
Noble: Gabion raised bed filled with stones
If, on the other hand, you want the front garden to look more elegant, you can use gabions to create a round raised bed, which is a pretty eye-catcher when filled with light stones and planted with lush, colorful summer flowers.
Tip
You can set very special accents if you also add solar outdoor lights (€46.00 on Amazon) to the front garden raised bed.
