The front garden is the business card of a house, as the saying goes. So it's no wonder that so many people put a lot of effort into designing this area, which is often only a few square meters in size.
How to design a flower bed in the front yard?
An attractive flower bed in the front garden combines perennials and flowers that frame the front door path, have different heights and growth forms, have different flowering times and match the style of the house. Add evergreens, ground covers and bulbs for year-round appeal.
Front garden fulfills many functions
Modern front gardens fulfill many functions, but offer little space. In addition to various storage options for garbage cans and bicycles, there must be space for a paved path to the front door and possibly to the carport, and a hedge or other property boundary should not be a few centimeters away from the already very limited space. Thanks to creative and well-thought-out planting, this area should now appear not only functional, but also inviting for residents and guests. Where you are greeted by cheerful, colorful flowers, you like coming home.
What to pay attention to when designing a flower bed
In order to achieve this feel-good factor, it is important to follow a few basic design rules for planting flower beds. The rule that applies to front gardens is that perennials, flowers and other plants should cover unsightly corners (such as the garbage can stand) and instead provide an inviting frame to the path leading to the front door. There are many options for this: For example, you can plant large perennials and shrubs in front of the garbage can - for example a rose or hydrangea bush or a climbing plant - which in turn are framed by lower plants. These in turn run along the footpath and accompany the returnee or visitor.
Style
It is important to adapt the style of the flower bed in the front garden to that of the house. In this way you avoid a break in style, which creates an imbalance and thus lacks any harmony. A farmhouse therefore has a rather lush and romantically planted front garden, while the terraced house only offers space for a maximum of three to five different perennials. However, classic front garden plants such as roses, hydrangeas, cranesbills, columbines or foxgloves go well with every style. Pay attention to variety and plant plants of different heights with different leaf and growth forms. However, these should not crowd each other too much, but are better placed in individual tuffs or as bands.
Attractive beds all year round
So that the front garden bed remains attractive all year round, choose flowering plants with different flowering times, as well as evergreen plants, ground cover, foliage perennials, bulbous flowers, grasses and annual summer flowers. A gravel or stone bed also looks very elegant and always looks well-kept - weeds don't stand a chance here.
Tip
If you have space for it, feel free to plant a small ball tree in the front yard. These species usually remain small-crowned and form a beautiful eye-catcher that can be wonderfully planted under colorful flowers.
