Designing a front garden in front of the house is no easy task. A strip of land is allocated under it, located between a private residential building and the road. The plot for the front garden is small. Despite this, the solutions are very different. It all depends on the creative ideas of home owners.
What are the front gardens
Starting to design your own front garden, decide on a design decision. This will help familiarity with the types of design:
- Open front gardens. Usually these are very small areas. If the territory is allocated for such a decent front garden, it is divided into zones. They create a beautiful view that perfectly looks from the road. In such front gardens, decorative bushes are planted. Lawns are sometimes broken, hedges are often organized.
- Closed front gardens. With their smart side, they are deployed to the house. From the road are closed by a fence or shrubbery. This solution is chosen when a highway passes by the house. The front garden will protect housing from noise, road dust.
- Covered front gardens. They look like an even lawn, from the ends limited by thorny bushes. Planted high hawthorn, low barberries. Here the wild rose and gooseberry will be appropriate.
- Formal front gardens. In front of the house, flowerpots and containers with plants are installed. A great solution when there is absolutely nowhere to plant flowers.
Arrangement of small front gardens
The techniques for visual expansion of a tiny front garden are the same as for small summer cottages:
- The path leading to the house will seem longer if it is slightly curved.
- When there are many interesting details that attract attention, the front garden in front of the house looks bigger. For example, a tiny murmuring fountain, gypsum figurines on the grass, unusual stones, a rose in a beautiful container - this does not require much space, but such decor attracts attention.
- The trees bordering the small front garden will come in handy. On the branches you can arrange figures of birds, squirrels or hang a birdhouse.
Equipping the territory near the house, strive to make it functional. You can organize a bicycle parking, a place for a car. Or to plant not only flowers - berry bushes can settle down here.
Mobile plants and tiers
It is very simple to decorate a small front garden in front of the house with your own hands - it is enough to put decorative plants in pots or tubs. An excellent solution is to fill the site with pebbles or any decorative coating.
Coasters made of red bricks, tree cuts, and stumps look beautiful. They will lift containers with plants and give an unusual look and add volume to the whole composition.
Another trick is to organize tiers in the new front garden according to the principle of retaining walls. One tier should rise above the other quite a bit. But this difference of 20-30 centimeters will add attractiveness.
For example, in the front garden in the photo below, height differences are emphasized with decorative rubble and red brick.
Make sure the compositional design is read. A small front garden should have a style. Then he will become the pride of your household.
Flowers, front garden and house
Beautiful front gardens in front of the house are not difficult to create, given the appearance of the house.
It is necessary to ensure the harmony of plants with a residential building. Some rules of landscape design will help to do this.
In the front garden, located close to the house, choose the color scheme of plants, given the color of the walls:
- brightly colored - plants prefer pastel colors;
- gray or dark walls - boldly plant bright flowers;
- a laconic facade will be a wonderful backdrop for lush and vibrant plants;
- with a richly decorated facade, make the front garden near the house more modest.
When designing a small front garden, exclude plants that have large leaves or bright flowers - they visually narrow the area, obsessively diverting attention to themselves. But such plants are good for large front gardens. Remember, that:
- The small front garden looks more spacious with cold colors. Blue, bluish, lilac, white, purple are perfect.
- Plant decorative plants with light leaves. They parted a small space.
- A small front garden near the wall of the house can be visually expanded by planting climbing plants.
- To choose the right plants, consider the location of the front garden relative to the cardinal points. When it is located on the north side of the house, purchase shade-tolerant plants. It can be spectacular bluish and green hosts, delicate ferns and moisture-loving mosses.
Front garden of a village house
The front garden should have the same stylistic direction as the entire infield. Optimally when they are designed at the same time. The front garden is the most common type of entrance design in the village.
Country style, or country, is closest to nature. A beautiful front garden is obtained from unpretentious perennial plants. Flower beds and flower beds from them do not require much care. Plants do without annual renewal.
The fence of the village front garden in this case, as a rule, is low, usually no more than a meter. Perform it from a wooden fence. You can fence with homemade wattle from willow branches.
Behind such a fence are tall tall bright flowers. Pet dahlias delight with color fireworks from June to September. Even earlier, mallow, mullein, veronica spikelet blooms.
This style allows planting berry shrubs in the front garden. For example, Canadian irga will bloom with a white cloud at the end of May and will please you with sweet berries in August.
A note of romance will make roses. Only need to plant species and park varieties. They are unpretentious and quite high. In this case, they calmly winter in the middle lane without shelter.
Curly species clematis will also be appropriate in the village front garden. They will bloom magnificently in small flowers in May. They do not require clipping and are frost-resistant.
Of the flowering unpretentious inhabitants of rural front gardens, the most popular is lilac. Good mock-ups, viburnum, mountain ash, honeysuckle.
Other styles of garden design
The choice of style for the design of the front garden depends on the preferences of the owners of the house. No need to blindly follow traditions. Apply fantasy.
The Asian front garden contains mixborders with perennials. Discreet colors of plants are selected. Dwarf conifers are great. Style involves the use of natural stones. The fence is also being erected from them.
The Mediterranean style is interesting in that it is mobile. Plants are planted in containers, ceramic flowerpots. If there is space, you can arrange chairs and a rattan table on the territory.
Romantic style will be appreciated by lovers of roses. Forged arches are placed in the front garden , near which climbing roses and clematis are planted.
The Japanese style is emphasized by perennials with long sharp leaves near beautiful large stones. These are unpretentious daylilies and hygrophilous irises. Appropriate cereal grass and coniferous plants.
Garden paths
The path to the house is made out by a track. Its width should be comfortable so that two people can freely pass. Near the entrance, it is advisable to equip a small area. Use paving slabs, brick or natural stone is also suitable.
The path in the front garden of the house solves several problems at once:
- provides comfortable and safe movement;
- in wet weather, dirt will remain on the track without getting into the living room;
- gives a well-groomed look to the front garden;
- divides the area into functional areas.
Along the path, flower borders are created or a clearing with flowering shrubs is organized. If you have a spacious open garden, additionally break the lawn. There will be several tracks in this case.
The fence must also be beautiful
A common framing of the front garden is a fence. They strive to make it in the general style of the house. Usually available natural materials are used. Forged and brick fences look rich and respectable.
In combination with low landings, curbs made of plastic or stones are popular.
The small-sized front garden fence looks friendly and tidy. When choosing material for the hedge, consider the style and composition of the idea.
Forged lattice emphasizes the romance of roses and clematis.
Wooden picket fence or wattle fence are good in country style. Solid stone fences will support Art Nouveau.
Common fencing materials:
- corrugated board;
- brick;
- natural stone;
- Rabitz;
- forging;
- live shrub;
- vine and branches;
- boards and picket.
Hedge
Creative design of the front garden hedge will immediately distinguish it from the general series. Previously, the formation of such a landmark required more than one year, because a live fence was grown from small seedlings. Today, planted, or even adult plants can be planted in such a hedge.
The front garden is surrounded by both high and low living wall of the bush.
A high hedge will muffle the noise from the street, block the house from wind and dust. And also from prying eyes.
A low hedge can be created from ornamental shrubs with variegated leaves or beautiful flowers.
Coniferous trees will help to grow an evergreen fence. Junipers, arborvitae, cypress and spruce perfectly clean the air near the house. Such protection looks very good in the winter.
When choosing plants for hedges, consider climatic conditions, especially local soils, and the location of groundwater. These conditions determine how quickly and efficiently the bushes or trees take root, how well they will grow and develop.
To get an amazing result, properly care and trim the plants. To properly form a dense and long-lasting fence, study the features of this process in advance.
Stages of creating a do-it-yourself front garden at home
How to arrange a front garden in front of the house, the owner decides on the basis of preferences, capabilities, conditions of the site. It will be a real business card at home. Your front garden will turn out beautiful and effective if you carefully plan it first. It is better to equip the planned stages:
At the first stage, a fence is being erected. She will separate the front garden from the road and neighbors.
The second stage is laying tracks. Do not forget to make a slight slope for the flow of water.
The third stage - marking the lawn and flower beds.
The fourth is planting. First of all, bushes and trees are planted. Then go to perennial flowers. They complete the planting of annual seedlings and sowing grass and flower seeds.
Use your creativity and realize dreams and ideas. The front garden can be a great place to relax. Will cheer you up when you return home. For everything to work out, only desire is needed.