Expert Tips for Eye-Catching Front Yard Landscaping Design
Here in Southwest Florida, your front yard, regardless of its size, plays an important role in your home’s overall curb appeal. Ensuring you have an attractive landscape, however, requires more than just a maintaining a beautiful lawn. At Peer Landscaping of Fort Myers, FL we know a well-landscaped front yard should take into account the style of your home and create a strong visual appeal for people passing by. It also helps to increase the value of your home if it is well kept and maintained.
Tip #1: Creative Use of Ground Covers
Ground covers are a low-maintenance alternative—and complement—to just keeping grass. They cut down on the need for watering and can create a stunning visual effect when done right. Because they’re low to the ground and dense, they give a neat appearance with need very little maintenance. They also allow you to introduce spring annuals and florals easily into your to your landscape.
Tip #2: Create a Scenic Walkway
When considering creating a pathway or walkway from the driveway to your front door, a curved path to the front door is attractive, but a meandering path may not be so much. If you want to take your visitors on a circuitous route, be sure you plant well along each side of your path to keep it interesting and making sense.
Pathways are usually narrow and made of natural materials such as mulch, pine straw, or crushed gravel. Pathways are built to blend in with the natural surroundings, and are often used to create a rustic or natural look. Their role is to connect different parts of the garden and they are used for accessing specific walkable areas. They are not normally designed wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair or babystroller.
Walkways are considered to be a true hardscape feature, in that they are usually laid out on a wider strip of ground of man-made materials such as pavers, bricks, or concrete. More of a design element, walkways can be created to match the style of your house or garden, whether it is traditional, modern, tropical or naturalistic. Walkways are used to provide a safe and convenient way to move through the garden as they are used as a main path of travel.
Tip #3: Add Privacy Hedges
If you are looking to add some privacy in your yard, consider a wall of hedges or shrubs. A buffer that includes various plants at varying heights can accomplish the effect as a solid hedge or a fence but is far more welcoming and pleasing to the eye. Alternatively, if you are just trying to block the view from a specific room—or a part of your yard from your neighbors—plant a couple of trees or shrubs with strategic precision.
Privacy hedges are an ideal planting element to bring to your backyard if the ground-floor of your house feels like a goldfish bowl – a leafy screen can shield you from view, and look beautiful, too. By dampening wind, they create a nice shelter, and they also frame the garden with verdant color and structure. On top of this, privacy hedging provides birds with shelter from wind, rain, and predators, as well as nesting sites, in turn treating you to the sight and sound of birds year round.
About Us
Born and raised in Southwest Florida, Peer Landscaping owners Bailey and Katie Peer bring a passion for beauty, as well as Christian values to their love of landscaping. Based in Fort Myers, FL, the Peer Landscaping team uses innovative 3-D design techniques that allow you to see how a new landscape design will truly look on your property, before any work is done. Check out our portfolio of the beautiful tropical landscapes we’ve completed at https://peerlandscaping.com/ and then give us a call to start designing your gorgeous new landscape! 239-645-6455
