Have you had enough of looking at your front yard? Then we have creative ideas here on how to tastefully redesign the small area in front of your house. Be inspired for your individual front garden design in a romantic, elegant and Mediterranean style, complete with the associated planting plan.

A colorful front yard brings color to the house

Planning the path and edging - ideas for the floor plan

Before you can dedicate yourself to the creative side of a front garden design and create beds, sober factors are in focus. The walkways should be planned to be 1.20 to 1.30 m wide so that two people can comfortably sit side by side. If space permits, a path leads directly to the house entrance, while a narrow path branches off in the direction of a small bench and invites you to linger.

In addition, the design of the boundary to the street makes a significant contribution to the overall impression. Majestic yew hedges are out of place here. You can design the small area beautifully with a low border in the form of an airy wooden fence, a dry stone wall with plants or with filigree grasses as a privacy screen.

Redesign the front yard in a romantic style - ideas for the small rose garden

The romantic front garden design harmonises wonderfully with a house in a country house or half-timbered style. Here you are welcome to dig deep into the plant casket and ignore the much-cited minimalism. Be inspired by the following planting plan to make a small front garden area beautiful:

  • Small shrub roses 'Medeo', ground cover roses 'Heidetraum' and bed rose 'Fortuna' mark the demarcation
  • Arrange these small roses in groups of 3 or 5 along the fence and in the bed
  • Combine white small shrub rose 'Ice Meidiland' with pink flowering astilbe 'Younique Pink'
  • Sedges (Carex morrowii 'Variegata') line the entrance path, alternating with bed roses 'Sweet Haze'
  • Dark pink 'Smart Road runner' florets add splashes of color below the house windows

Two yew cones to the right and left of the entrance welcome your visitors. Boxwood balls scattered in the bed create year-round structure in the appearance.

Creating a classy and easy-care front garden - ideas for planting

Terraced houses and semi-detached houses have limited space for the front yard. If paths and parking spaces are planned, sometimes no more than 4 square meters are available for planting. This does not mean that you have to do without a representative front garden design. The following planting suggestion shows how to create a small bed area with an elegant flair:

  • 2 white anemones (Anemone x japonica), 80 cm
  • 1 white splendor (Astilbe x thunbergii), 130 cm
  • 2 white bergenias (Bergenia stracheyi), 40 cm
  • 3 blue forget-me-nots (Brunnera macrophylla), 40 cm
  • 3 white-green sedges (Carex), 30-40 cm
  • 1 Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea'), 50 cm
  • 3 bronze-leaved purple bells (Heuchera x micrantha), 40-60 cm
  • 1 hosta with white-green leaves, 60 cm
  • 3 blue lily clusters (Liriope muscari), 30 cm
  • 1 white flame flower (Phlox divaricata), 30 cm
  • 1 maple 'Globossum' (Acer platanoides), 250-300 cm

Arrange these plants so that the lower perennials romp around in the front area and the larger plants thrive towards the house wall. The task of the ball maple is as a key plant in the middle of the front yard. Alternatively, plant a flowering shrub here as a standard, such as the panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata) 'Vanille Fraise'.

Creating a front garden in a Mediterranean style - planting plan for Mediterranean flair

When proud builders create a new front garden on the finished home, the Mediterranean style is very popular. In fact, authentic elements such as decorative beige gravel, natural sand-lime stone slabs or earth-colored terracotta pots harmonize wonderfully with a modern architectural style. The following plants underline the atmospheric Mediterranean color:

  • Front: 2 pearl baskets (Anaphalis triplinervis) 'Silver Rain' alternating with 2 lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
  • Behind: 3 Feather Grass (Stipa tenuissima), over which a Tall Bearded Iris (Iris Barbata-Elatior) is enthroned
  • Lead plants: 1 spurge (Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii) in the middle, 1 Chinese reed (Miscanthus sinensis) in the background

The Mediterranean front garden design is rounded off by bush mallows (Lavatera x olbia), feather carnations (Dianthus plumarius), ornamental sage (Salvia), dost (Origanum laevigatum) and other sun worshipers from southern regions.

Make the front yard beautiful with decoration ideas for decorating

Add the finishing touches to your front yard design with tasteful decorative items. Clever ideas have long since banished stale garden gnomes and boring metal balls to the attic. The following collection of ideas reflects the current trends:

  • Metal arches for roses, clematis and ivy include the house facade in the design
  • Buddha figures, lanterns and stone steles exude Asian flair
  • Stone elves, flower children and sheep harmonize beautifully with a country-style front yard
  • Insect hotels and birdhouses demonstrate a bond with nature
  • Erratic boulders from the region replace small trees as the guiding figure

There is enough space for water features in the form of columns even in the tightly dimensioned area of a front garden. Our feathered friends in the Mediterranean-style front yard are delighted with a terracotta bird bath.

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When you create your front yard, plan a privacy screen for the garbage cans at the same time. Behind a narrow gabion wall or evergreen thuja hedge, the bins, which are as indispensable as they are unsightly, are hidden from view in a decorative way.

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