Add beauty to your front yard with a sidewalk garden. Check out the following front Landscaping Ideas ideas that’ll work even in the smallest of spaces.
1. Use layers in the garden.
Some of the best garden ideas use layering. For this, you combine layers of plants that grow at different heights. This front garden idea is a great example. The white alyssum and lobelia of purple-colored leaves in the front set the stage for bigger tulips and butterfly flowers, which are reversed backed by society garlic and a wall topped in glowing pink bougainvillea.
Here’s a tip: Even if you don’t live in a warm-climate area, you can still take advantage of tropical plants such as bougainvillea. Just treat them as annuals.
2. Create interest with curves.
Curves are much more eye-catching. So enhance your sidewalk garden look with flowing curves. Here, the strip of turf between the street and the garden sets off the planting wonderfully. And it offers people a place to step when they get out of their cars. If your area is large enough, you could do a similar thing between the planting and the sidewalk.
Here’s a tip: Introduce landscape edging between your border and the turf to prevent the grass from creeping into your beds.
3. Make the Most of Your Space
A sidewalk garden doesn’t have to take up a lot of room. This is a great front garden idea, showing how you can pack in color and texture in just a little space. With only about a foot between the fence and the sidewalk, this garden contains tall, narrow plants, like these pink and white foxgloves, delphiniums of purple color, and a climbing rose. Tall, narrow plants are a great way to increase the number of narrow spots.
Here’s a tip: If you prefer tall plants like these, don’t forget to add smaller plants around the bases so there are blooms from the top all the way to the ground.
4. Grow a Cutting Garden
Even though they take up little real estate, small sidewalk gardens can be great for growing your own cut flowers. In this garden, foxgloves, roses, and a host of other flowers are best for dressing up the front of the house and for table decoration.
Here’s a tip: Look at landscape accents to give your sidewalk garden more appeal. Here, for example, a white picket fence and arbor develop even more charm.
5. Decrease Your Yard Maintenance
A fun idea: instead of having to mow your front lawn once a week (or more), indulge in rich plantings. This crafty gardener mixed ornamentals, herbs, and vegetables to make a charming front yard that consumes a lot less time to maintain than a lawn. Her front yard is the best place to grab some fresh herbs for dinner.
Here’s a tip: Check your local rules concerning front yard plantings. Some areas need a certain amount of lawn.
6. Make your yard feel bigger.
If your yard is small, create the illusion of space by planting on the street side. This garden adds a layer of dimension to an otherwise shallow front space, and the mix of textures adds to the effect—the variety of shapes keeps your attention on the border.
Here’s a tip: The border’s simple color theme makes it feel larger, too. Cool colors, for example, lavender, light pink, and blue, often feel farther away than they really are.
7. Delight Passersby with Fragrance
A sidewalk garden doesn’t just have to look good—it can smell great, too. This front garden combines a lovely, majestic Southern magnolia and shrub roses for low-care color and delightful fragrance from spring to fall. The planting between the sidewalk and street helps soften the front yard plantings, and the result is privacy that’s not unwelcoming.
Here’s a tip: Use a 2- to 3-inch-deep layer of mulch to let the weeds down and help the soil keep moisture for a longer duration. This way, you’ll have even more time to enjoy your beautiful garden.
8. Add easy elegance.
Get inspired with this garden idea: Give your front yard a new look by clearing out the turf between your sidewalk and the street and occupying it with budget-friendly plants, such as these ornamental grasses, which include fountain grass and blue oat grass.
Here’s a tip: Go through your city’s rules about planting in this space; some places have limitations on how tall plants can be.
9. Make a statement.
This simple sidewalk-front garden creates a big statement in a tiny space. A simple boxwood border and snaking line create pockets for the fireworks-like texture of ornamental grasses. We love the plant choice—the evergreen boxwood looks great all year, and the grasses shine from summer through early spring.
Here’s a tip: If you decide to plant between the street and sidewalk and your street allows for parking,make a space so people can get out of their cars. Here, a flagstone border does the trick perfectly.
10. Garden, No Matter Where You Live
Use this idea, and you can have a stunning sidewalk, even if you live in an arid area. Here, the yellow and orange ice plant makes a stunning statement, followed by yucca, agave, and cactus. Other attractive plants for hot, dry places include aloes and many salvias, penstemons, and flowering cacti.
Here’s a tip: If you plant opposite a south- or west-facing wall, you’ll want to choose plants that can stand up to the extra heat the wall reflects.
11. Plan for All Seasons
This street-side garden keeps going all season. In spring, it benefits from a burst of color from bulbs and crabapples. Then perennials, for example, Oriental poppy, come into play. Prolong the season with other simple favorites, such as peonies, daylilies, coreopsis, coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans. In fall and winter, grasses take center stage.
Here’s a tip: Another great way to help deter weeds is to plant densely. The closer together your garden plants are, the less room is available for weeds.
12. Solve a Slope Problem
If you’re stuck with a sloping front yard, a retaining wall and sidewalk garden can be the perfect garden idea and solution for tough mowing. Here, a simple concrete retaining wall is ready with a variety of charming blooms. A charming white picket fence distracts you from the blandness of the concrete wall and gives the whole landscape a quaint cottage character.
Here’s a tip: Vines like this ivy—or trailing plants—will help cover walls as well.
13. Utilize containers.
A great sidewalk garden doesn’t have to be restricted to planting in the ground. You can have the same effect with containers. This garden believes in a series of container gardens. The biggest chore is watering, and that can be a breeze with an easy drip irrigation system.
Here’s a tip: We love the cool, chartreuse color theme picked by the gardener. Even a single-color garden can look great.
14. Add a splash of color.
This charming home,containing a shrub-filled front yard, felt a little bland, so the homeowners added curb appeal with a simple garden between their fence and sidewalk. Occupied with fragrant red nicotiana, red-leafed Acalypha, and coleus, it’s the best for passersby and a unique garden idea.
Here’s a tip: Remember The importance of foliage color when you choose plants. The red-leaf plants look good from spring to fall since they never go out of bloom.
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15. Update Your Entrance
We love how sidewalk gardens create the best welcoming source. In this front garden, a few flowers tucked along a split-rail fence create a boundary from the street while adding beauty and character. A similar planting between the street and the sidewalk creates an extra layer of interest.
Here’s a tip: The curved walkway from the sidewalk to the home gives it visual appeal. Think about creating eye-pleasing curves in your landscape when possible.