13 easy, effective front garden ideas
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- Your front garden or front yard garden is the first thing people see when they come to your home. And front gardens are often small, so you don't need much time, money or effort to give yours the 'wow' factor. Tips on creating a beautiful front garden that will make coming home even more enjoyable - and it could even add value to your house.
Garden designer Posy Gentles: www.posygentles.co.uk/
Some gardens, including mine and Posy Gentles, also open for Faversham Open Gardens & Garden Market Day on the last Sunday in June: www.favershamsociety.org
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Agree with "More front gardens, please." Thank you. This was helpful to me, TODAY!
More front garden ideas please! Thank you 💜
Am hoping to do more, thank you.
This is super. I am about to redesign my front garden after a motorist crashed through my hedge and gate last weekend! I am looking at it as an opportunity rather than a disaster. This has fixed several ideas in my mind. Well done and thank you, as ever.
Oh, my goodness, I hope the damage isn't too great. Someone crashed into ours once - the garden wall came off worse than the car. I hope you have fun redesigning the front garden, as you say, it is an opportunity.
You really opened my eyes to some exciting colour schemes in this one. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
How welcoming! Love the torch lilies. I certainly believe in tip #11. Using pots is so convenient for changing the look quickly to be seasonal or just because we want to. We often start a plant in a pot to make sure it "takes." Once it is bigger we put it somewhere in our local landscape. Just did that with a Japanese maple tree. Now it is miniature roses. Before that it was Northern Sea Oats. Musical pots are so fun to do!
You're so right. Pots are gorgeous
Every front garden shown by you in this video is brilliant in colours matching the house frontage...
Must be a joy and feast for the eyes to be greeted by such beauty....
Thanks for sharing...
Thank you!
I can't stop watching your videos! Just lovely......
Thank you!
Same here!
As always, great ideas . Thank you
Thanks for the tips, Learning new things about gardening with every video!
So valuable! Thank you so much for your suggestions! I’m going to plant lavender in front of my house.
Beautiful garden and flowers 🌹🌺🌲
I love your videos. Thank you for making them!
I think your videos are excellent. Perfect for amateurs like me that enjoy pulling and planting my mid sized garden in N. Lincs that I have been the custodian of since I moved here from London 15 years ago. I have subscribed and look forward to more of the same tips, advice and opinion. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Greeting from the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, USA. I would like a video on planting a front garden for privacy and low maintenance i.e. no lawn mowing. I can't have a fence or hedges along the public road because of snow plowing. I would enjoy a closer look at your front garden as well.
Here's a poem I wrote about the online gardening community -
Uk, here we grow,
Where the year begins,
Through wet and wind,
But Charles Dowding,
Will Never dig in.
Neither will those northerners,
The Deans, and the Tony's,
In Newcastle, where it's always snowing,
Bootz muddy, but never moaning,
Further south, Nige, is slug patrolling.
Here's spring, time for sowing
Music, to sped up hoeing,
Mike Hurdiss's plots, always showy,
Border plan, got to be flowing.
Middle-sized Gardens,
Best to plan it,
Who knew polishing trees,
Could make this happen?
Summer comes by,
It's looking the best,
So I took a welcomed rest,
Ah, Allotment life,
Ah! I hate you whitefly!
Strawberries out my ears,
Best sun in years,
Picking daily, without fear,
Then drought kills the lettuce.
Pure tears...
Into the autumn,
Pumpkins I hoard them,
Seeds, storing, leaves, pouring,
I love the crunch and colours of autumn.
As the cold draws in,
Apples fall,
Compost forks,
But the greatest pleasure all year,
Has been to hear,
Lavender and Leek talk.
By Sean (Plotting in Paradise)
Thanks to all the contributors who have helped me this year :)
Fabulous! Thank you 👏👏👏
Which comes first the poem or the garden? 😊
Very enjoyable, thank you.
Wow-no messing straight into jam packed information- Need to replay with notebook.Starting on my front which at the moment is a glorious CAR PARK! This video will prove invaluable'-
Thank you so much. That's exactly what I hoped people would feel. Good luck with changing the car park into a car park garden and do show us a photo on here when you've finished
Love the ideas. Thanks.
You are so welcome!
Wonderful suggestions for front gardens….more please🌷💕
I'll keep an eye out for some good ones
Great tips!
Thank you!
Great ideas, Alexandra, thanks. I am very keen on lavenders although they take some monitoring as they can quickly get out of hand. Your front garden looks amazingly beautiful. :)
Thank you- all the credit goes to our predecessors in this house though I did plant the two crab apples and also the nepeta
Lavender...it's too late to plant it now but next spring...💜💜💜.
Very nice garden . your coments is helpful.Thank you.
It's my pleasure
Great ideas 👍
Thank you!
Concerned about weeds!
Thank you for the ideas ... Unknowingly, I had used 2 of your front garden ideas!! I planted lavender along the front of the house and my front door (painted by previous owner) is lavender colored!! I also had a couple of containers with heliotrope next to the front door last summer.
It sounds lovely!
I love these videos thank you. I wonder if you can do one on how to make my front garden more private with a shared driveway and neighbours directly opposite. Thank you
Love love your ideas for the front garden. Any ideas about best plants for an gravel front garden l inherited from previous owner.
I'd love you to explore use of water (ponds/features) in front gardens.
That's interesting! There aren't many (or indeed any that I can think of) near me, but I'll start looking out for it.
lovely ideas! Do you have any inspiration for planting under a bay window in the front garden? Would love to hear your thoughts 😊
I think I would put a stand-out and perhaps quite tall plant in front of the bay window, and make it the central plant of the front garden. If it's a shrub or plant which grows to about 4-5ft you would see the flowers through the window, and it would also improve privacy. You could also choose a tall ornamental grass such as Stipa Gigantea or a shrub with interesting leaves, such as Cotinus.
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Nice ideas! Beautiful! The bees near the front entrance door will just come inside the house when the door opens and I will run away, lol...
I promise you, the bees very rarely come in, and oddly enough only the odd bumble bee through the bedroom window on the first floor. The little bees near the ground have never come in, even when we leave the door open. Perhaps they can see there is no food for them!
Great tips for the garden! I love using pots on our porch to fill in the area. One area I wonder about is the sides of the houses. I have a small garden on the side of the house where the drive way and garage are. I have plants but my wall is bare. I have been thinking to add plants that would vine up a trellis along that wall. It would make an interesting video to see what type of plants or ideas to fill in a bare wall in a garden. Thank you for such a great video. 💚💚💚💚💚💚
That's a great idea and one of the professional gardeners I talk to has been doing a trial so I'll see if they can chat about it
The Middle-Sized Garden Thank you so much! That would be great! Hopefully they can. 💚💚💚💚💚💚
Although we are in winter and as it would be lovely to see the climbers growing, I may not be able to do it until all the leaves are back on!
The Middle-Sized Garden Oh no worries!!! I will watch when ever the video can be made. I’m at the moment figuring out how to keep my porch not looking bare with plants that will thrive in winter. So far I have my main containers and filling in with smaller pots to warm up. I’m working on a small budget. But so far i think it will keep me going through winter. If any one would like to share how to have a garden still in winter that would be greatly appreciated. I love your videos they make me think and open up my mind on new solutions to grow my garden. Thank you! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
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What area the best floral colors when your home is white with black accents? Love the blue and yellow contrast, but white doesn’t contrast well as there’s few black plants
How about large and small ornamental grasses around the front of the house. Mixed with daises..and various beach side flowers.
sounds heavenly. There are a couple of front gardens here which have lots of erigeron in summer and they look so pretty.
Please Alexandra! could you share your ideas on how to eradicate unwanted and intrusive Muscari.
I regard this bulb as a pernicious weed, although you may think otherwise
I do rather know what you mean. It has taken over in my front garden, and I pull it up. I wouldn't recommend weed killer products as they always drift onto other plants, but if you're able to lay cardboard over the area where the muscari are growing and then add garden compost or well rotted manure on top, it will keep the light away from the leaves, so they should die. It will also improve your soil. However, you'll have to do it when the muscari are in leaf and you may have to do it a couple of times. If that's not practical, then it's just a question of endlessly removing it until it finally gives up. Good luck!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Hello Alexandra, Thank you so much for suggestions on how to say farewell to the unwanted Muscari. Unfortunately, The wretched bulbs are scattered here, there and everywhere.
Digging them out works to a degree, however for every bulb you pull, there are clusters hiding around trees and shrub roots. So, I think I just have to continue pulling the leaves up while gritting my teeth.
Love your videos. Your speech was rushed, why?
I think that particular video was probably a bit rushed - it's one I shot a year or so ago, but I think (I hope) I've slowed down a bit now. But thank you for the comment as feedback is so helpful.
I only have a front garden. It’s a bit more than small though.
By studying your inspiring garden videos one question appeared. - What do you think about transfering the interior design to the garden design? For example : to plant the pattern of the couch fabric as a bed?
I think that sounds like a good idea. It's always harder to control what goes on in a garden (for example, fabric colours fade and plants don't always turn out the way you expect) but if you used it as 'inspiration' rather than trying to copy exactly, I think it would be lovely.
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Thank you for the tip! - It is the key.
I`m going to try it!
Have a nice day
I love lavender 💜 plants. Are they dwarfs type of lavander ??
I think they are, but I'm sorry, I don't know which type.
Hi Alexandra, may I ask what are the trees in your front garden, that sit either side of your path and Monica rose?
They are Malus hupehensis, a type of crab apple. The rose is Bonica, not Monica.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden thank you. How far from your house are the trees?
Please can you recommend any architectural plants for front of a Victorian property?
You may find some inspiration for architectural plants on this company's website - even if you don't live within their delivery range, it can give you some ideas: www.architecturalplants.com/ I hope that helps
'They' say 90% of houses are sold before people go through the front door mainly due to street appeal which is mainly due to front gardens.
You're so right - I should have said that
Here's an interesting example. Between 1975 and 1989 I developed a beautiful front garden starting from a non-descript jungle of boring plants. People would stop as they walked down the street to admire the front garden. For sad reasons (divorce) I had to sell that house. The people who bought it (at auction) told the agent that they bought it because they really loved the front garden. A few years ago, I took my granddaughter past the house to show her where her mother was born. By that time, very little, perhaps none, of the once-beautiful front garden remained. The owner happened to see us peeking at the house from the road. When she found out that I was the previous owner, she confessed that she had bought the house because of the lovely front garden. She further confessed, sounding a little guilty, that unfortunately, she had been unable to maintain the garden and that nothing of it remained! Oh well, I still have my photos and memories! And I have a new beautiful front garden. :)
@@neverlostforwords what a shame it didn't survive but good on you for doing it because front gardens cheer up the whole street
@@neverlostforwords Unfortunately, in Australia, that is the trend. We had a glorious cottage garden when we lived on Phillip Island; years later friends who drove by and told us never go back and take a look as the garden was destroyed. It always amazes me when people buy a house because of its garden (particularly when there are plenty of other properties devoid of gardens) and then proceed to neglect and destroy it. We are in the process of selling our current property and know we will have difficulties due to the newly established garden which is a 'Habitat Stepping Stone' planted for birds, bees and butterflies. Sad statement on today's world.
@@flowerfairy1950 I am sure you have wonderful memories and photos of your cottage garden. Good luck with your house sale. Don't forget that many other people want wildlife/naturalist gardens too. :)
I wondered where Theresa May had gone - now I know!!!
ha, ha not the first time someone has said that!
Are you in a mad dash? Why are you speaking so fast? You have an already high pitched voice and rushing through just makes it pitch up more! Love your channel, but if you’re trying to do shorter videos, you shouldn’t - longer is great, you give such great information.
Thank you. This is one of my older videos, and quite a few people said what you've said (feedback is always very helpful) so I think I've slowed down for the more recent videos.
I felt as though I was being chased through this video....perhaps slow down your delivery a bit as the ultra fast speech sounds very aggressive and intimidating sorry
Thank you, really...all feedback is valuable. Its about a year old and I think I've slowed down a bit with more recent videos but will keep an eye on it as I know what you mean 🙏
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I liked your fast delivery. It's to the point - no waffle. I can always pause and replay any section of it if I want to.
@@heliotropezzz333 I absolutely agree. When someone speaks clearly as Alexandra does, I prefer a fast delivery.
Ok but don't yell at me!
Sorry. I think we have improved our audio in later videos.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I didn’t mean to be rude, the video is pretty good keep it going
You need to stop shouting.
YOU THINK? 😂
It's fine.
This looks a mess