Help with Front Yard Landscaping!!!!
Suhair Najjar
9 months ago
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Help with front yard landscaping!
Comments (11)Thanks so much for explaining the phrase "in a perfect world to me." But I guess one should expect the level of snark that comes with posting in a Houzz forum. Whitewater, yes, thank you, I wasn't exactly picturing "trees" as intended in the photo. I do think something flanking the house might be nice. I also would like to have a large shrub (not sure if this is the correct term -- I am thinking o a hydrangea) in front of the fence on the right side, so as to hide our vegetable garden area from the road. I want to make sure I don't plant anything that would conflict visually with a tree planted more towards the center of the right side in the future, if that makes sense. I have some small pots on either side of the steps now, but I'm thinking they may need to be much larger once the planting is complete? Kind of just made do with what I had for the time being....See MoreNeed design help for front yard landscape.
Comments (4)Judging by the (not-sunburned in full sun) archonotophoenix in the picture, I'm going to guess that if you're in the US, you're in coastal Southern California or coastal central California. The fence looks very modern. Is the house in keeping with that look also? If this space were mine to work with, I'd grow a bright red colored bougainvillea on the far right (San Diego Red or Purple Robe would really stand out against the white wall) and train it across the top of the fence. Then I'd use terra cotta pots and grow dramatic agaves like Agave attenuata, Agave blue flame or Agave desmettiana Joe Hoak. If my guess was correct and you are in fact in coastal California, the agave will not need irrigation. The bougainvillea might need water once a month once it's established....See Moreplease help with front yard landscape ideas
Comments (1)These were old pic taken from when I first moved in around 2 years ago. I will post new pics with the work I have completed and unhappy with....See MoreHelp! Requesting Front Yard Landscaping & Curb Appeal Suggestions
Comments (5)Seems to me you do have 3 large projects here & they should be tackled in certain order to prevent wasted money & time. 1st project = large evergreen. Get an arborist to look at it & give you options. Determine what your liability is if it does fall & take out power lines. Answer to that might determine fate of tree but whatever you do to it will dramatically affect any landscape plan. Maybe it needs only to be limbed up & thinned out. NO topping to make shorter! It looks like a tree or shrub is in front of it too. 2nd project = widen driveway & figure out what kind or if a retaining wall will be needed or achieve the look you want. 3rd project & the fun one = create an appealing front yard! In this project my advice it to move those Rose of Sharon tree standards away from the house. In their natural state they are fairly large shrubs but easily pruned. They just look too close to house In that narrow bed. I’d also advise making a much larger planting bed in front of the house - you’ve got lots of room for a big curved bed to fill with all of the kinds of plants you mentioned you like. Those Rose of Sharon trees can be part of that bed. But, you need to know what the fate of big evergreen tree will be before you can plan the bed & also the retaining wall - where is it etc. So, that’s my advice - 3 steps in most useful order. 🌸...See MoreCelery. Visualization, Rendering images
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