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Landscape design for front of Florida home. Please help :)

Darby Annunziata

last year

Hi! This house is located in Florida. We just moved in and are ripping everything out repainting and starting from scratch. I’m open to all suggestions. I’m would like a low maintenance landscape that is modern and clean. We are ripping out the screened in porch and expanding the sidewalk to the front door. Any help is greatly appreciated. I can send more pics if needed too.

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laceyvail 6A, WV

last year

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Sigrid
last year
Why rip everything out? It looks like you have a variety of shrubs. Surely some are nice, healthy and lovely. Maybe you want to mov them. I'd figure out your plan before discarding plants that clearly thrive in your cyard.
btydrvn
last year
I don’t see the screened porch …but they are a very useful element in a Florida home..i wouldn’t remove that if it is in good shape…the shrubbery can be re-purposed/ re-shaped ….and placed differently away from the house…at a great savings over getting new…if you are not from Fla. you will definitely need to get local advice on any changes or additions…….for a dramatic…modern …but simple landscape a few perfectly placed variety of palms and a few decorative …sizable concrete circles or squares can be dramatic and chic if placed properly…this will reduce the amount of grass maintenance and water usage…also,drive around in the best neighborhoods to get ideas…looking for the …less is more …vibe… done well….
Once the shrubs are moved away from the entry…you may want to consider a color change in the entry area and some added big pots with dramatic-shapely-silhouette plants
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Dig Doug's Designs
last year
Here are a few suggestions:
Embothrium
last year
last modified: last year
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.
Akhilesh Joshi
last year
some low-maintenance ideas:

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