How to style a front yard? There are tons of ideas, from timeless green lawns to potted gardens but usual garden beds keep the first place year after year. Even if there’s little space, you can still squeeze a small flower bed in, and the bed itself can be styled in multiple ways, with lots of blooms, shrubs and trees giving your front yard a desired look and boosting its curb appeal.
How To Make A Front Yard Flower Bed?
First, turn over the soil to ensure it’s in the best possible condition! To do this, dig and shake up the top few inches of soil. Then, add fertilizer to it. This will aerate the soil, clear it of weeds, improve the drainage while adding nutrients.
Next up, it’s time to start planning! A little bit of preparation can go a long way when it comes to creating the perfect flower bed. Before you start planting, research what will thrive in your conditions. Find out what is native to your location, what plants need direct sunlight versus some shade and think about what colors you’d like to incorporate.
Once your flower beds are planted, regular maintenance will ensure they thrive. Use mulch, which will help plant roots retain water and deter weeds, weed your garden and water as needed.
Brick edging is perfect to create a small curved area with blooms and rocks. It adds interest to the front yard with shape and color.
A slightly curved flower bed with topiaries with white blooms is a beautiful way to add curb appeal to your home.
A classic raised bed with stone border is divided into parts and features creatively shaped trees and bushes, a fountain and some blooms. It's a great idea for a refined house entrance.
A long garden bed along the house is done with greenery and shrubs, a large stone and a tree will refresh the front yard and all the other outdoor spaces around the house.
A small curved raised garden bed with topiaries and lights is a cool way to add elegance to the front yard and the topiaries stand out in the white backdrop.
A curved corner garden done with gravel, with greenery, topiaries and a blooming tree is a stylish and chic nook in the front yard of the house.
A front yard covered with gravel, with greenery and topiaries and blooming shrubs is a beautiful addition to the front yard.
A curved garden bed along the corner of the porch, with a tree, blooming shrubs and greenery contrasts the sleek green lawn.
A raised bed covered with black gravel, pebbles, with large stones and greenery is placed along the wall of the house.
A long curved garden bed in the front yard, with greenery and bold blooms plus a green lawn add curb appeal to the house.
A long creatively shaped flowerbed with red and white blooms and some greenery adds color, interest and eye-catchiness to the front yard.
A large garden bed with topiaries and greenery plus a green lawn create a cool and catchy look in the outdoor space around the house.
A long curved garden bed with a stone border, with topiaries, a tree and super bright blooms is a catchy decoration for the front yard.
Surrounding house with greenery is a nice way to make it more welcoming.
A large garden bed with blooming hydrangeas and lined up with a green wall is a cool and catchy solution for the front yard.
A curved garden bed along the whole house with greenery and blooms is an eye-catchy idea for a front yard, it refreshes the space.
A large flower bed along the house with blooms and lavender is a cool and catchy addition to the front yard.
A big flower bed in the front yard featuring bold flowers, blooming shrubs and a beautiful and tall fit tree is adorable.
A long and curved raised garden bed with stone border and with greenery and bright flowers is a cool and catchy decoration for a modern front yard.
A long curved area along the house with greenery and super colorful flowers that instantly boost the look of the front yard.
How To Style A Front Yard Flower Bed?
You may skip borders or get some that match your front yard and the exterior of the house: brick, stone, pebbles. The plants and blooms themselves will also add interest and style, so choose them carefully. Put tall plants in the back, mid-height plants in the middle and low ground cover in the front to create a full look. You also need to remember to take seasonality into consideration. Think about the bloom times for the flowers you are planting so you can have visual interest all year round. Incorporate a mix of perennial plants as well as annuals. And your evergreens are important for some green in the deep winter. Consider adding rocks, pebbles and even a fountain to your flower beds to make them look jaw-dropping.
Long beds with blooms and greenery and potted plants create a lovely cottage front yard that perfectly matches the exterior of the house.
A long bed with pebbles and gravel, with greenery and bright blooms to bring interest to the front yard, neutral exterior walls help the flowers stand out.
A long raised garden bed with greenery and super bright blooms will instantly add curb appeal to the front yard of the house.
A curved bed with greenery, succulents and blooms together with window boxes boost the look of the outdoor space.
A creatively shaped raised garden bed with stone borders, with bold foliage, blooms and greenery, large rocks and a fountain is amazing for a chic and refined house entrance.
A curved raised garden bed with rock borders, topiaries, bold blooms and some trees is a very elegant idea for the front yard of the house.
Rough rocks and super colorful blooms and greenery enlivens the front yard and other outdoor spaces of the house.
A large raised garden bed with a green wall border and blue hydrangeas to add a harmonious and delicate touch to the front yard of the house.
A flower bed with stone borders, greenery and bright blooms plus matching blooms in the window boxes for a bright and cool decor touch.
Topiaries, colorful blooms and foliage surrounded by stone borders are perfect to make the entrance to the house refined, chic and very beautiful.
Simple house's entrance with textural greenery and white blooms are amazing to finish off the cottage look of the front yard.
A long flower bed with greenery and colorful blooms boosts the curb appeal of the house, these blooms bring in the color.
Brick borders are great to separate a front lawn from greenery, lush blooms and lavender that make a white cottage home so lovely.
A raised flower bed with stone borders, with white hydrangeas for a beautiful and cute cottage-inspired front yard that matches the exterior of the house.
A small curved garden bed with some greenery is a cool piece for any part of your front yard, it adds elegance to the space.
Rocking small plants around a tree always looks great and could add interest to your front porch.
A long flower bed dotted with greenery and bright red flowers plus topiary trees is a stylish addition to the front yard that mathces the brick exterior walls.
A beautiful white Nordic cottage with planked walls, a simple clean porch and a garden bed with textural greenery that enlivens the crispy clean space.
Classic garden beds on both sides of the porch, with white hydrangeas is a classic idea that perfectly matches the look of the cottage annd enlivens the front yard.
Flower beds along the house and the fence, with various types of greenery and blooms add interest to the front yard and refreshes the look of the clean green lawn.
Manicured front yard with a green lawn, green walls and white blooms along the house to create a perfect cottage look.
Flower beds along the house and on both sides of the porch with greenery and blooms are a cool idea for a refined modern front yard.
Raised flower beds featuring white hydrangeas and grass look very eye-catchy and hydrangeas are classics for front yards.
Simple garden beds along the house, with topiaries, potted greenery on the porch and window boxes with blooms refresh the exterior of the house and its front yard.