Awesome house! Love the porch . . . What is one of your favorite colors? Maybe use that as a starting point. Do you decorate the porch seasonally, or move things around a bit? What Zone are you in so we can make plant suggestions. And which way does the house face? North, south, east or west?
I'd plant some bushes, like azaleas, in front of the porch . Get some hanging plants and few wind chimes for porch along with a couple of porch rockers and/or a swing. It's a beautiful home .
I would create a retainer wall and plant with a specimen shrub making sure there is enough room from the house,and continue blending in other shrubs.Find a separate area in the lawn for another specimen ,place a ornamental statue or a garden bench,Make container plantings with season colors.
I would hang nice big boston fern in the two openings...one on each side. Then I would plant several dwarf boxwoods in front for year-round greenery. between the boxwoods, plant a few flowering shrubs for pops of color seasonally...and lastly, fill in the front of the beds with small hostas or liriope to add some texture
Love your home!! I would put a tree on the left side of the house, in the middle of the front yard. I would then plant 4 upright Evergreen bushes on the left and right side of steps and at the ends of the railing. Add some grasses that grow not quite as high as your railing, add small bushes that bloom in the spring-- hydrangea, dwarf lilac To name a couple. Just make sure when you plant these, you give them enough room on all 4 sides of the plant to grow. Then add some seasonal color with perennial flowers and annuals. You could also plant a ring of annuals around your new tree, like a 3-4 ft ring around it, in some cheerful colors.
Add two hanging baskets of annuals--fuschia or petunias, to hang above the post on each side of the porch.
Keep in mind the 4 seasons--what will give you interest in winter (evergreen, branches from bushes--some are reddish or yellow gold, dried grass heads) Spring (tulips, daffodils for early, then early perennials) summer (your most of your flower)and fall (tree leaves, sedum, mums and asters).
Take some graph paper--(you can google graph paper and print!)--and use it to help design your plantings. Then you can take that to your local greenhouse/nursery when selecting your plants. The employees could give you ideas if you are not familiar with the local climate of what grows best.
Your home is nice. I did a bit to make it easier to imagine and edited out some car and street. That done, I would explore some trim colors. Monochromatic homes lose themselves in their own background. If you love the white, what could be lovely is a gray trim with some small accents of black. I hope that helps.
I would add some colored shutters and plant some shrubbery that would add color and interest and also add some furniture to the front porch such as rock or wicker furniture. Paint the front door something bright that would stand out like a red maybe. Beautiful home with so much potential!
Cherry Blossom, Magnolia and Laburnum are some of my favourites, but make sure the from the house don't just plonk them in take time to decide exactly where you will put them, you do not want to hide the house when they have grown.
Somehow my house and garden got tiny gnats that killed my fuchsia plant and fly everywhere. I have tried ALL the Web recommendations - soap and oil dishes, sand in th...
See more
Growing our first garlic, should we wait until the leaves are drying out before we pick it? Husband picked first one today along with our first potatoes.
Hi everyone, I have mice in my garden destroying my vegetables and I have also noticed them in the barn and shed. Please can someone tell me how to prevent them from ...
See more
Just moved into a new home. There was a huge thorny bush dragon devouring the mailbox. I slayed the dragon but it is trying to rise up again. How can I make sure it's...
See more
We have the worst neighbors ever! They complain about everything! They hate dogs so they complain every time our dogs bark one time (not exaggerating) they have fabri...
See more
Awesome house! Love the porch . . . What is one of your favorite colors? Maybe use that as a starting point. Do you decorate the porch seasonally, or move things around a bit? What Zone are you in so we can make plant suggestions. And which way does the house face? North, south, east or west?
I'd plant some bushes, like azaleas, in front of the porch . Get some hanging plants and few wind chimes for porch along with a couple of porch rockers and/or a swing. It's a beautiful home .
I would create a retainer wall and plant with a specimen shrub making sure there is enough room from the house,and continue blending in other shrubs.Find a separate area in the lawn for another specimen ,place a ornamental statue or a garden bench,Make container plantings with season colors.
I would hang nice big boston fern in the two openings...one on each side. Then I would plant several dwarf boxwoods in front for year-round greenery. between the boxwoods, plant a few flowering shrubs for pops of color seasonally...and lastly, fill in the front of the beds with small hostas or liriope to add some texture
Love your home!! I would put a tree on the left side of the house, in the middle of the front yard. I would then plant 4 upright Evergreen bushes on the left and right side of steps and at the ends of the railing. Add some grasses that grow not quite as high as your railing, add small bushes that bloom in the spring-- hydrangea, dwarf lilac To name a couple. Just make sure when you plant these, you give them enough room on all 4 sides of the plant to grow. Then add some seasonal color with perennial flowers and annuals. You could also plant a ring of annuals around your new tree, like a 3-4 ft ring around it, in some cheerful colors.
Add two hanging baskets of annuals--fuschia or petunias, to hang above the post on each side of the porch.
Keep in mind the 4 seasons--what will give you interest in winter (evergreen, branches from bushes--some are reddish or yellow gold, dried grass heads) Spring (tulips, daffodils for early, then early perennials) summer (your most of your flower)and fall (tree leaves, sedum, mums and asters).
Take some graph paper--(you can google graph paper and print!)--and use it to help design your plantings. Then you can take that to your local greenhouse/nursery when selecting your plants. The employees could give you ideas if you are not familiar with the local climate of what grows best.
happy planning and a planting!!
Your home is nice. I did a bit to make it easier to imagine and edited out some car and street. That done, I would explore some trim colors. Monochromatic homes lose themselves in their own background. If you love the white, what could be lovely is a gray trim with some small accents of black. I hope that helps.
I would add some colored shutters and plant some shrubbery that would add color and interest and also add some furniture to the front porch such as rock or wicker furniture. Paint the front door something bright that would stand out like a red maybe. Beautiful home with so much potential!
Also a couple of flowering trees
Cherry Blossom, Magnolia and Laburnum are some of my favourites, but make sure the from the house don't just plonk them in take time to decide exactly where you will put them, you do not want to hide the house when they have grown.
Thank you! Good thought! They do get bigger and I would have forgotten that! I would have been so focused on planting!