When it comes to front gardens, ideas are often lacking. Here you will find two ideas on how to transform the little garden in front of the house into a flower-filled oasis – with planting plans to download.
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| Front garden as a flower oasis |
Apart from green grass, there is not much going on in the front garden . The rustic wooden fence only marks the edge of the property, but allows a clear view of the street. The area in front of the house offers enough space for colorful rose and perennial beds .
Suggestion 1: Front garden for rose fans
In order to ward off the neighbors’ glances and to have the summer front garden all to yourself, the garden is bordered with a high hornbeam hedge . If you want to let your fellow people share in the floral splendor, you can of course leave out the hedge. Then you remove the existing lawn and turn the area into the shape of a classic rose garden using narrow, light gray granite paths. This shape is emphasized by five symmetrically planted yellow-flowering ‘Golden Olympus’ standard roses. This goes well with three arches planted with the pink climbing rose ‘Jasmina’ and the evergreen columnar junipers.
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| Front garden as a flower oasis |
To ensure that the rose garden does not look too austere, the cream-white, low ground cover rose ‘Snowflake’ is planted scattered in the beds. The tall silver-eared grasses also fit loosely into the borders. Since roses look best in the vicinity of suitable companion plants, pink and blue lavender (‘Hidcote Pink’ and ‘Richard Grey’) are added. A special eye-catcher in summer are the spherical flowers of the giant leek, which play around the evergreen columnar juniper. As an undemanding ground cover , the yellow Siberian stonecrop blooms from spring to late summer. In winter, the dark green, shiny cherry laurel ‘Reynvaanii’ in the pot. The evergreen columns and the decorative climbing arches give the garden structure.
Suggestion 2: Sea of flowers and green lawn
When you enter the garden and sit on the bench, you can see the pond and the small, well-kept lawn. The color of the bench and the new coat of paint on the garden fence match the wine-red leaves of the existing maple tree on the fence perfectly. They are also complemented by the foliage of the easy-care. Extensively planted heuchera ‘Stormy Seas’ and the summer flowers of the weigela ‘Eva Radke’.
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The purple stonecrop only dresses up in autumn and its flowers replace the wave of flowers from the weigela. In summer the stonecrop supports the calm atmosphere of the garden with its fleshy, decorative grey-green leaves. To give the front garden more height, the columnar hornbeams ‘Monumentalis’ and the picturesquely overhanging Kolkwitzia are planted along the fence. From June until the first frost, the sunny yellow ground cover rose ‘Loredo’ shows off its best side. So that the garden is only flowerless in winter.
In summer the house wall is decorated with the pink clematis ‘Aleksandrit’. Two evergreen cherry laurel bushes provide lush green in winter. In addition, the hornbeam columns, which stay in shape without being cut, retain some of their brown leaves in winter and provide privacy .
