Front Yard Landscaping Help
leland_78
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Yardvaark
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Comments (7)There are different philosophies for landscape creation. A common one comes from builders: use cheap, fast growing plants and smother the foundation. Another comes from landscape designers: overplant and thin later (attempting to give the fullest look the soonest.) Since there are some nice plants, you may have gotten a hybrid of these philosophies! But it looks like plants overwhelm the house and the resultant look is one of neglect. From the street it does not look the least inviting insofar as going to the front door. One can't see if there's a path to get there and it looks like it's probably going to be creepy with wasps, spiders and dirty leaves at the stoop. Personally, unless you LOVE to trim, I can't see why having plants that grow MUCH larger than the space allotted is a good idea. IMO, you'd be better off with a complete re-do and plants whose ultimate size is a better fit for the space. Below each window should be a shrub that's easy to keep 2' - 3' tall. (The shape is not a ball. It's a dome.) The pine tree at the left corner is going to become (already is) much too large to be kept in the shrub form (with foliage to the ground.) In that position I think it can only be a tree and it's past time to begin removing bottom limbs so that humans can walk below it and the view to the first floor of the house can be maintained. If you limb it up, you can grow nice things below it. If you don't, you can't work comfortably below it or grow nice things. (When you first remove limbs, the tree looks somewhat awkward because the limbs remaining are at an upward angle instead of how the lower limbs are right now. But as they age and lengthen, they hang lower and eventually the natural look returns. It's best to remove limbs as soon as you know they need it. Wait and it's more work later.) With a large, open yard, it will look better if there's some large shade trees widely spaced along the street. (Hope there are some behind this camera position.)...See MoreFront yard landscape help
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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 (4)It looks like the "front" door is out of view of the street. Given it's lengthy approach and seeming lack of visual interest upon arrival, I believe I would expand the paved area near the door to create a small patio. There could be some seating, say a small bistro set, on it. A small tree inside the corner of where the walk makes its last turn could add a sense of shelter to the walk experience. Area inside of walk is small enough for groundcover instead of turf. Turf could be at outside of walk, except for the skinny part next to fence....See Morelaceyvail 6A, WV
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