Front yard landscaping help
JT T
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Front yard landscape help
Comments (1)suggestion for arranging ......See MoreFront Yard Landscaping Help
Comments (5)Before you start planting, I would widen the walkway, which currently is quite narrow. If you can't do that, at least give it a generous landing at the base of the front portico, as wide as the pillars, to make the front approach feel less pinched. If it were mine, I would then get rid of all the grass between the wider walkway and the house to make it a deeper bed with groundcover under the shrubs for ease of maintenance, to give more space between the building and the plants so they don't end up looking so tight against the building as your remaining shrub, and so you can have more plants for a longer season of interest. You may want something else evergreen, but a different color or texture, to contrast with the Encores in the winter. This can be another shrub and/or your groundcover....See MoreFront Yard Landscaping Help
Comments (7)Take the picture to other forums (your region, trees, shrubs, perennials, etc.) and ask what plants could make those shown. Any plant shown could presumably be created out a number of different plant types. It would be up to you to evaluate how you want to resolve it, and by doing so, create the final "flavors" that your yard will produce. You need to create a planting plan, where all the plants are located and called out, before you do the actual install work. If you're trying to do the planning yourself, you might return here with the plan and get feedback before you install it....See MoreFront yard landscape help - edited as my first post wasn't clear
Comments (7)I wasn't clear in my original post - I may need to start again. We have a variety of fruit trees and bushes, berries and a large vegetable garden in the back. I'm not anti garden maintenance - I just tend to neglect the front yard because it never seems to look good no matter what I do (and I tend to prioritize puttering in the back with all the food producing stuff. We have run out of back yard space for fruit trees and at the same time I would like to add some taller trees/bushes at the front of our yard to create a bit of privacy as we are replacing some mirrored windows at the front and everyone walking by will have a full view into our front room. I was thinking if we had a nice looking garden along the road that we could then squeeze in a few more fruit trees in the front yard - but I would also like the yard to look nice. I am horrible with design and I'm hoping to get some ideas for a garden area with some height along the front of the yard, as well as some opinions on if I can get away with adding fruit trees along the driveway, walkway and front of the house (right side), or if this would just look strange. I'm not married to the look of the photo I posted above, I just want something that would look nice and create a bit of privacy....See MoreJT T
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