Please help with landscape design for front of house!! Zone 7
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First house - need front landscape help please
Comments (6)Ruth, I will tell you a simple way to make a bed. Just get a tape measure and mark off an equal distance from the wall of the house, say five feet. Then cut and remove the grass on that line. Since the bed is already there I would measure it at its deepest and use that distance down the length of the house. Like this:I like the more rounded bed around the tree so I would leave that. I am not a fan of anything over five or six inches growing forward of the path so if it were my garden I would reseed grass in the cut out strip that follows the path to the driveway. On the South side of the house I would straighten out the lawn strip like below. I am a big fawn of lawn so this is what I would do. Another alternative is to remove it from the area and install groundcover. I did not take the time to fill in along the path but it is what I would want. As you can see, I am not a professional. These are just my personal tastes....See MorePlease help with front landscaping (z7 Long Island)
Comments (2)Overlapping photos from left to right...See MoreZone 7a north facing front landscaping suggestions
Comments (4)It would help a lot if you could provide photos of the area in question. And zone 7 doesn't tell us anything except how cold it might get in winter....name of nearby large city is more helpful. Roses do best in full sun (8 hours plus), which is unlikely to be the case for a north facing aspect but they could be a possibility. And there is no issue with roses and a house foundation :-)...See MoreLandscape design for front of Florida home. Please help :)
Comments (6)The formal clipping of the existing shrubs does not go with the style of the rambler house. Otherwise their arrangement is lopsided and not coordinated with the house facade, with large areas of blank wall as well as partly blocked windows both being present because of this. If you are not already from the region be informed that biting insects are quite a problem, hence the often unlovely outdoor cages you see around on other properties. And perhaps why this place came with a screened porch. As for low maintenance you're never going to have that with most of the lot covered by lawn. Unless you pay somebody else to keep up the lawn for you. With its greater height, broad profile and positioning on the lot so that it appears the front of it is facing the back of yours the turtlelike house behind looks as though it wants to push it into the street, definitely needs therefore to be screened out with adequately tall and dense planting....See Morehousegal200
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