82 Beautiful Front Yard Landscaping Ideas You Should Try This Year

The right front yard can give your home beautiful curb appeal. Using flowers, walkways, garden beds, landscaping plants, planters, rocks, and lighting can help you achieve that great first impression.

It doesn't have to cost a fortune. You can get the look you want with low-maintenance and budget-friendly options that work for small, large, sunny, or shady front yards. Here's an abundance of front yard landscaping ideas to get you started.

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Modern Yet Colorful Minimalism

@ladylandscape / Instagram

The large hydrangeas in front of this modern home of wood and stone are a great choice to add curving shapes and color. Edged with a short boxwood hedge, and flanked by tall clumps of decorative grasses, the hydrangeas are part of a minimal yet fulsome design, and helps create a changing palette of color throughout the season.
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Cottage Style Curb Appeal

@cottageandsea / Instagram

This charming cottage-style home in California has a simple entryway accented with color and a captivating vintage light fixture. The lovely front yard landscape also includes a mature tree, small shrubs flanking the door, and desert-friendly perennials in soft neutral blue-greens that complement the bright aqua trim.
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Low-Maintenance Perennial Walkway

@ladylandscape / Instagram

If there's a lot of lawn, you can still add gardens to define the space. This house has a well-defined area below the front steps with a stone patio and pavers. Garden beds on all sides full of colorful perennials, plus container planters on the stairs, create a beautiful entry experience
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An Evergreen Farmhouse Front Yard

Michelle Berwick Designs

Landscaping design can be as simple or as complex as you want. One easy way to have landscaping that lasts through four seasons is simply to plant evergreen shrubs. These low-growing boxwoods only need occasional trimming to keep them neat and healthy, and they look great all year round.

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Colorful Perennial Border

@gardenfromscratch / Instagram

There's virtually no limit to the color combinations possible by combining herbaceous perennials. This summer scene includes echinacea, daylilies, daisies, and phlox in shades of red, pink, and white. You can experiment with color schemes like orange and pink, yellow and blue, or red and white, and even plan color palettes around bloom time.
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Symmetrical Craftsman Front Yard

@ladylandscape / Instagram

The angular lines of this modern house pair up well with this landscape design which includes many organic shapes, including the large mature trees on both sides. There is a wonderful symmetry to the design also, anchored by the straight walkway, with shrubs left untrimmed, spiky evergreen trees, and beds with buoyant daylilies.
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A Front Yard Sculpture Garden

Jacky Parker Photography / Getty Images

Sometimes figural sculpture in the garden can look overdone with too many pieces. The "stone" birdbath here (actually made of lighter resin) balances the small figurines placed throughout this compact Florida garden. Well-placed pavers and natural rocks and stones complete the natural cottage look.
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Low-Maintenance Hosta Bed

@gardenfromscratch / Instagram

There are many varieties of low-maintenance hostas for a shady spot in your front yard. They maintain their form and color from spring through late fall, sending up stems with flowers in late summer. Divide your hostas every 3-4 years and you'll have plenty to plant and share. Add some color contrast with shade-loving heucheras.

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Spring Bulb Garden

@ladylandscape / Instagram

Spring bulbs bloom before the trees leaf out, and bulbs will multiply each year, filling your front yard over time. This splendid spring garden features mostly blue grape hyacinths and yellow daffodils, making a vivid landscape against the green lawn and pale green tree buds, all visible from a distance. After blooming, the bulbs' foliage dies back naturally and can coexist nicely with large shade perennials such as hostas.
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A Simple, Classic Front Yard

M. Lavender Interiors / Photo by Janet Mesic Mackie

This pleasing, simple, and straightforward landscape design has an abundance of plants without looking crowded. Charming window boxes hang from windows on both floors. The beds across the front are filled with 'Limelight' hydrangeas. There are two young trees planted on either side of the door and container plantings on the stoop.
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Colorful Woodland Blooms

Mark Turner / Getty Images

This large woodland property in New Hampshire has many mature trees and woodland undergrowth on three sides. The flower gardens by the street attract the eye with three seasons of colorful perennials, like these tall orange lilies that bloom for weeks in summer.
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Japanese Water Feature

@ladylandscape / Instagram

The mix of elements in this front entrance area shows some inspiration from the Japanese garden style. This design includes a water feature, a balance of round and ragged edges, a harmonious balance of textures and shapes, stones used as sculpture, and a Japanese maple.

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Eye-Catching Containers

@thejardiniere / Instagram

Containers can be a showy design option that is easy to maintain and can be changed as often as you like. These antique cast iron urns contain an unexpected, attention-getting combination of curved willow branches and brightly colored annuals.
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Tropical-Style Window Boxes

@thetravelingapartment / Instagram

Make an impression with window boxes filled to the brim. These balcony gardens feature overflowing pots and window boxes, packed with verdant tropical plants, trailing vines, and vibrant perennials.
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Classic Front Yard Tulip Garden

Finding Lovely

Planting large numbers of tulip bulbs ensures a grand show in the spring, and some varieties provide continuous bloom all season long. Choose an early bloomer, a mid-season flower, and a May tulip to keep the color going strong.
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A Lush and Shady Yard

The Spruce / Peg Aloi

This large shady garden in upstate New York is full of trees, shrubs, and flowers, as well as charming style stone sculptures and pots. The garden has a peaceful yet wild look and a rural quality one would expect to find in the French countryside.

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A Path of Small Trees

@thelaundrygarden / Instagram

This orderly front yard has plenty of texture and a color palette of greens and blues. This style of trees planted in a row is known as an allée (alley) or avenue, found along a city street or urban park. To achieve this look, plant young trees of the same age at the same time, spacing them an equal distance apart, or place small trees and shrubs in containers lined up.
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Colorful Heights

@thetravellingapartment / Instagram

Hollyhocks are often planted against a fence or wall but their sturdy tall stems can hold their own almost anywhere. This planting offers dramatic long-blooming colors in shades of pink and red that draw the eye to the red trim of the house and tall stems emphasize the vertical siding.
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A Colonial's Round Flowerbed

@thepsychgarden / Instagram

These round beds beneath mature trees are real eye-catchers when filled with colorful easy-care summer annuals like white and hot pink caladiums. Shade perennials including boxwoods and ferns fill up the middle section.
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Modern Desert Brights

Dazey Den

The bright orange elements of this desert home (door, front entrance wall, planter, and sculpture) are in striking contrast to the assortment of rich green tall-growing cacti planted in front. No doubt the oranges merge from time to time with the glorious desert sunrise and sunset skies, too.

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A Fairy-Tale Forest Setting

Nile Johnson Interior Design

This handsome modern home with large windows is surrounded by dense forest undergrowth and mature trees. The golden light from inside the house softly illuminates the fairy-tale forest setting. A wide stone path with low-maintenance woodland ground cover plants welcomes visitors to this forest idyll and stays green through three seasons.
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Drought-Tolerant Cottage Garden

@beartrapgarden / Instagram

Planting a drought-tolerant cottage garden should never mean skimping on color. The desert garden here is abundant with plants like gaillardia, yarrow, yucca, verbena, and lavender that flower just fine when the hot days give way to cool nights.
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Lawn-Free Front Yard

Design by Mindy Gayer

No need for grass leading up to your gated entryway. This bright palette includes green foliage and white-flowering perennials against the backdrop of the white wall and contrasting with the dark wooden door.
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Front Yard Pollinator Garden

@ladylandscape / Instagram

It's possible to eliminate the lawn in your front yard in favor of a verdant oasis of trees, perennial beds, and shrubs. It can seem daunting, but once you start working at it, You'll love the shade, beauty, noise absorption, and space you've created to grow edible plants and attract beneficial pollinators.

Tip

For the best pollinator garden, be sure to choose a variety of flowers that will bloom in spring, summer, and fall.

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Modern Minimalist Landscaping

@honeydesignbuild / Instagram

The minimal plantings in front of this house emphasize the beautifully conceived placement of the home in this coastal landscape. The light-colored stones in the walkway enliven the black-stained wood of the home's exterior, while the curving lines balance the house's angled edges. Simple yet dramatic, this design shows thoughtful consideration of the entire property's footprint.
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Colorful Autumn Hues

@ladylandscape / Instagram

Consider the impact of your landscape design throughout the seasons. The gorgeous golden colors of this property's mature trees in autumn are nicely paired with this modern home's golden wood trim. The small autumn display of pumpkins and gourds draws the eye and echoes that grand color palette on a smaller scale.
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A Mediterranean-Inspired Wall Garden

White Sands Design/Build

This attractive southern California home features graceful mature trees and a tiered retaining wall. With room to plant, the retaining wall looks like a terraced garden. The simple heat and drought-tolerant plantings include bright-leafed succulents that add a flush of color to the house's white exterior, and even echo the color of the dark stained wood doors.
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Ornamental Grass Garden

Finding Lovely

If you have a large sunny property, consider defining the front yard space with herb gardens and fruit trees. Many flowering herbs such as lavender, sage, borage, oregano, and rosemary will spread well and increase over time, creating large bushy flowering clumps that attract pollinators. Check your growing zone to be sure you plant winter-hardy varieties.

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Lush Layers of Colorful Flowers

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This image from Central Park in New York City is a perfect reminder that a beautiful garden can be inspiring. This prolific grouping of daisy-style chrysanthemums looks great against the evergreen hedge with autumn gold in the background.
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Desert-Friendly Containers

@beartrapgarden / Instagram

This eco-friendly northern California desert home relies on sustainable, drought-tolerant plantings. These exuberant tropicals in pots, including cold-hardy palms that stand up to chilly desert nights, frame the entryway and can be moved around throughout the season.
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Victorian Home's Color-Coordinated Yard

The Spruce / Peg Aloi

This home's deep purple and white trim was inspired by the glorious iris beds in full bloom—or was it the other way around? Every spring, you and your neighbors will enjoy the colorful showcase of German irises in shades of dark purple, lavender, or a combo of blue and white.
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Low-Maintenance Lavender

@honeydesignbuild / Instagram

There's a lot to be said for creating a simple planting of one plant, like this front yard garden of lavender clumps shown here. Lavender adds color, texture, and fragrance to a garden but you can achieve a similar look with salvia plants.

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Colorful Semi-Shade Bed

@thepsychgarden / Instagram

After the spring display of tulips and daffodils has gone dormant, this colorful perennial bed bursts forth in early summer with bold colors that light up the shady spots with purple echinacea, creamy hydrangeas, and white-leafed caladiums.
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Front Yard's Birdbath Garden

@thepsychgarden / Instagram

While most gardeners put birdbaths in the backyard, a birdbath works in the front yard, too. Place it where there's plenty of foliage to give the birds cover so they feel safe from predators. This design is well-balanced with a small magnolia tree, perennial geraniums, dwarf boxwoods, dark coleus, fuzzy lamb's ear, echinacea, anemones, and assorted hostas.
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Planter-Friendly Hydrangeas

Musings by Madison

If you love macrophylla hydrangeas but don't have room for a large shrub, use a window box or container. Hydrangeas with large blooms are often available as container plants in the spring around Easter time or on Mother's Day that are more like flowering annuals than perennials but fit well into smaller planters.
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Bungalow's Shady Front Yard

Erin Williamson Design

Older houses commonly have large shrubs or hedges for privacy or cooling purposes but a large shrub by the door of a newer home looks great, too, like the majestic guardian planted above. When choosing a shrub to plant, be sure to allow room for it to reach its full height and width, or consider a more compact hybrid.

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Abundant Spring Color

@ladylandscape / Instagram

Paying attention to bloom time helps you design a perennial garden that will be constantly full of dazzling colors and textures. The beds here are planted with three seasons of bloom in mind; in May the bright purple 'May Night' salvia and peonies bloom for weeks, the alliums sway their colorful spheres, and the hosta leaves get big seemingly overnight. Daylilies and hostas are planted strategically to hide the remains of the early spring daffodils.
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Shaded Garden Bed Walkway

@thepsychgarden / Instagram

This partial shade area by this house's front entrance has an assortment of perennials including a small variegated dogwood, 'Autumn Brilliance' ferns, and assorted hostas. The centerpiece is a reblooming mountain hydrangea that is compact and colorful ('Tuff Stuff Ah Ha'). The combination of variegated foliage and lace-cap hydrangea flowers brings airy lightness to this shady bed.
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Budget-Friendly Perennial Flowerbed

Cake and Confetti

On a property with a large front lawn, sometimes the most practical way to create a garden that gets noticed is to plant beds right by the front entrance. This easy care design includes low-growing evergreen hedges, and full perennial beds with plants that increase every year, like irises and daylilies. These can be divided every two to three years, providing even more beauty.
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Flourishing Tudor-Style Front Yard

Style by Emily Henderson / Photo by Sara Ligorria-Tramp

This landscape design has all the charm of an English garden, with plantings that lead the eye and red foliage that echoes the bright red door. Ivy-covered walls are the quintessential backdrop for the cottage-style flower beds and flagstone path flanked by shrubs left to grow into full, bushy, organic shapes.

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Cottage-Style Entrance

Kate Marker Interiors

The charming and inviting entrance to this vintage Michigan bungalow has an old brick walkway leading to a low, wrap-around stairway, all flanked by low-growing cottage-style garden beds. Pastel and white flowers (including mini hydrangeas and dianthus) contrast the dark house exterior color. Potted plants by the door continue the airy outdoorsy "surrounded by nature" feel of the open porch.
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Cozy Front Porch

@ladylandscape / Instagram

Make the most of limited outdoor space like this narrow front porch oasis. The comfortable wicker chairs are softened with washable outdoor cushions, a small table, and potted ferns nearby. This cozy outdoor sanctuary features an open railing that overlooks billowing hydrangeas.
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Contrasting Heights in a Ranch Yard

Design by Mindy Gayer

If your house is a sprawling modern ranch style, your garden design should include some elements that suggest height, for balance. The young trees here add some vertical shapes, and the perennial beds include upright growers including large clumping grasses.
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Plant-Lined Walkway

@themayflygarden / Instagram

This house in Sweden has a narrow passage to its entrance alongside a tall hedge. The plantings fit perfectly on the other side of the walkway of square pavers and gravel. The enticing pathway welcomes visitors and draws the eye down the path to the larger gardens behind the house.

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Dutch Colonial's Symmetrical Shrubs

Britt Design Studio

This grand Dutch Colonial home could easily overpower most landscape designs. But a simple, symmetrical design softens and enhances the front yard. This design includes evergreen shrubs clipped to organic oval shapes to counter the geometric lines of the house, macrophylla hydrangeas for color, small trees for height in between, and containers on either side of the door.
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Glorious Tropical Glamour

Calimia Home / photo by Jeanne Canto

This large Florida home is framed by captivating and mature palm trees. To create a design that makes the best use of space and scale and embraces this tropical aesthetic, mid-size shrubs are planted on both sides of the front yard and smaller plantings and containers adorn the entrance and front porch. The soft curving shapes of the trees and shrubs are a lovely contrast to the flat roof, striped awnings, and rectangular windows.
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Tree Garden

@themayflygarden / Instagram

If you have a mature tree you love, surround it with a round garden bed. This simple bed has an assortment of part-shade perennials and a gorgeous large-flowered purple clematis vine that provides dramatic color in summer.
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Colorful and Affordable Annuals

@marieflaniganinteriors / Instagram

Even a well-designed landscape like this one, full of healthy shrubs and perennials, might need a boost of color at times. Long-blooming annuals, from petunias and begonias to impatiens and lobelia, provide colorful blooms for weeks, even months, during the growing season. This beautiful front yard is made even more outstanding with the colorful annuals planted in front of the low brick wall.

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Sloped Modern Mountain Garden

Michelle Berwick Design

This modern house is all about the setting: a forest on a mountainside cliff above the water. There's not much level ground to plant on, so the entrance is accented with an attractive sloping rock garden, including the large rock surfaces that are naturally occurring. The cool blue-green foliage of the evergreen shrubs contrasts beautifully with the warm autumn tones of the house.
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Open-Air Porch and Plants

Design by Mindy Gayer

This minimalistic design feels expansive yet also intimate thanks to strategically placed greenery. One potted plant by the door, one narrow evergreen shrub at the entryway, and some well-placed perennials (mostly lavender) are just enough for this open-air porch entrance.
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Dramatic Privacy Grass

@themayflygarden / Instagram

A lot is going on here in this small front yard space, which is the result of a garden designer's artistic eye. The climbing vine creates a beautiful entry point at the gate, the tall clumping grass is dramatic and graceful, and the small variegated hosta catches the eye and establishes scale. The airy ferns continue the theme of diverse textures, all in bright green foliage.
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Square House, Round Shrubs

Kate Marker Interiors

Stand back and observe the overall shape and scale of your home when creating a new landscape design. This grand house is all squares and rectangles, and needed rounded, softer shapes to balance its size and rather boxy shape. Short rounded boxwoods in front of small, airy white hydrangeas do the trick.

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One Vibrant Color

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

The vibrant color of a garden attracts attention and focusing only on one hue makes a very powerful statement. This garden with flowering perennials in varying shades of purple juxtaposing the black wrought iron gate makes a moody vignette in the front yard.
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Tall and Mature Shade Trees

Design by Mindy Gayer

Large, mature trees provide shade, natural beauty, and shelter for wildlife and birds. This large farmhouse has a big, traditional front porch from which to sit and enjoy the tree's shade and flower beds filled with a colorful variety of perennials.
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Luminous Front Yard Blooms

@themayflygarden / Instagram

This semi-shady front yard bed gets enough sun for these perennials ('White Swan' echinacea and 'Moonbeam' coreopsis) to bloom consistently and help light up the space with their pale colors. The afternoon sun is best for plants that need partial sun to bloom, especially if you live in cooler regions.
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Matching Front Door and Flowers

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

Bright colors seem to be able to shift moods. Yellow in particular is a cheery sight in spring, which may explain the popularity of daffodils. These golden beauties are a sunny companion to the bright yellow front door of this stone cottage.

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Early Spring Color

@ladylandscape / Instagram

Few sights are better after a long cold winter than the appearance of early spring flowers in your front yard. Daffodils, Dutch hyacinths, scilla, grape hyacinths, and other bulbs are easy to plant and they naturally spread and increase in numbers every year. This flower bed also has early-blooming deep purple hellebores for extra drama, and a reflecting pool to multiply the colors.
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Porch-Friendly Shrubs

JK Interior Living

Nearby landscaping is one factor that makes or breaks your porch's welcoming appeal. Here, the tall shrub at the corner pillar provides definition, privacy, and shade to this otherwise open porch. The low-maintenance perennials, including boxwoods and clumping grasses visible from the porch, offer texture and color.
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Desert-Style Spiky Succulents

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

Succulents and grasses are wonderfully low-maintenance, drought-tolerant options for front yards in hot, dry climates. This southern California home has a colorful array of desert-friendly plants including yucca, blue fescue grass, agave, and sedum.
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Green Urban Front Yard

White Sands Design/Build

Gardening can be a challenge in urban settings so if your yard is limited in space or the adjacent property is ultra-close, use shrubs and plantings as an effective buffer zone. This townhouse uses small boxwoods and low shrubs to form a hedge, define the space, and provide a bit of privacy. The small tree offers shade and gives the simple front yard landscape design a sense of fullness.

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Creative Narrow Front Yard Plantings

@themayflygarden / Instagram

This narrow strip next to a house in Sweden creates a vertical design that has artful rose trellises, lollipop shrubs, and tasteful ground covers, all on a flower bed barely a couple of feet wide. If you think you don't have enough room for a beautiful garden space, think again.
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Curbside View of Climbing Vines

Marie Flanagan Interiors

This simple design provides an immediate visual impact, with bright green climbing vines against the white brick wall. The upward growth draws attention to the small trees behind the wall.
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Low-Maintenance Rock Border

Marie Flanigan Interiors

This flower bed edged with large rocks offers curved, organic shapes to offset the many vertical and angular lines at the front of this house. The perennials also offer a range of dark and light colors to spruce up the impact of the solid white house and stair railings.
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One Large and Luscious Shrub

@marieflaniganinteriors / Instagram

You don't need a huge assortment of plants in a perennial bed to deliver a big statement. This perennial bed looks abundant and gorgeous with a mix of just purple hydrangeas and white astilbes. It's flanked by trimmed evergreen shrubs but the biggest wow factor of this front yard is the backdrop of the huge, glorious white flowering shrub.

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Unexpected Contrasting Colors

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

If you want a flowering vine at your entrance, consider the color impact of its blooms against your house. This stunning mature bougainvillea vine makes a dramatic entryway to this house. The complementary color scheme of purple and yellow is strikingly beautiful.
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Cape Cod's Complementary Annuals and Perennials

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

This Cape Cod look includes voluminous hydrangeas that will soon begin their kaleidoscopic color change from green to creamy white to pink to rose. The pink annuals in containers are a vibrant accompaniment to the seasonal show. Consider annuals in pots that can complement the blooming perennial shrubs in your front yard.
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Seasonal Containers Create Color Palettes

@themayflygarden / Instagram

This welcoming arrangement of containers at the entrance of this home echoes the colors found in the garden. The deep purples and burgundy hues not only draw the eye through the garden space but create a dramatic color opposition with all the blue-green shades.
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Beachside Beauty

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

This house in the Hamptons has plenty of space for large, tall plantings. The huge clumps of Russian sage, coreopsis, and grasses offer a vivid expanse of color and airy shapes, sturdy enough to withstand the coastal salt breeze.

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Winter Wonder

@gardens_and_architecture / Instagram

The winter garden has a quiet beauty. Here, leaving this pampas grass uncut allows snow to lightly coat it and creates a delicate yet dazzling display on this woodland property.
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A Perfumed Welcome

@thepsychgarden / Instagram

The heady fragrance and visual treat of English roses create a showstopping front yard. Fragrant varieties of roses, dianthus, irises, daffodils, and lilies, not to mention larger shrubs like lilacs and Korean spice viburnum, will be a source of pleasure to you and pollinators alike.
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Front Yard Rose Garden Retreat

@hmbien / Instagram

If you have a large front yard, carve out a rectangular space for a rose garden. Add boxwoods around the border and install a small seating arrangement for an inviting way to greet guests and neighbors.
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Southwestern DIY Native Landscape

Turquoise and Tobacco

Front yard landscaping doesn't need to be difficult. Plant a few native plants yourself and watch them thrive in their natural environment. Here, cacti and succulents are right at home with this Southwestern house.

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Welcoming Small Seating Area

@hmbien / Instagram

If you're short on space, create a functional and beautiful DIY front yard patio and seating area. Here, the homeowners added a simple rock border, filled it in with gravel, topped it with a small bistro set, and framed the area with flowers. This affordable, low-maintenance landscaping option uses landscaping with rocks, mulch, and colorful perennials.
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Expansive Green Lawn Landscape

@amberpiercedesigns / Instagram

When your grass lawn looks pristine, there's little need for expensive or complicated landscaping. Instead, focus on that perfect carpet of green and accent it with a few lush evergreen shrubs.
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Ranch Yard's Low Garden Walkway

@ladylandscape / Instagram

A light stone walkway stands out when it's lined by garden beds filled with greenery and dark mulch. Plant affordable and colorful annuals every season to keep the area fresh.
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Seasonal Planters Add Color Pop

@kirsten.diane / Instagram

Nothing adds a burst of style to front yard landscaping like seasonal planters that change as the colors in nature begin to change, too. Golden mums fill the planters and echo the colors of the autumn leaves.

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DIY Slate Walkway

@kirsten.diane / Instagram

Walkways can get expensive, but not if you DIY them with a few simple pieces of slate put down on the lawn. Here's an organic geometric-style walkway leading up to a white porch with a green door and coordinating plants.
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Cozy Front Yard Landscape Lighting

@herzenstimme / Instagram

Make your landscaping stand out even more with intentionally placed lighting that draws attention to the plants in your yard. Use solar-powered lights for a glow that will show up each evening.
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Fresh Dark Mulch in the Front Yard

KPD Images / Getty Images

A layer of fresh, dark mulch can do wonders for your front yard landscaping. Use it with vibrant flowers for splashes of color.
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Flower-Filled Cottage Style Yard

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Layers and layers of flowers create a cottage-inspired front yard look. Add to your collection of perennials each year, creating an abundant, more-is-more garden.

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DIY Paver Front Yard Decor

Liudmila Chernetska / Getty Images

If you want to add budget-friendly decor to your garden, consider placing pavers in unexpected ways. These round pavers create a fun geometric pattern amidst the round boxwoods.
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Low-Maintenance Desert Gravel Garden

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Nothing is easier than landscaping a front yard with gravel and pavers. Create a modern look by putting gravel around rock garden-friendly plants and adding a few pavers for a low-maintenance walkway.

FAQ

What is the best landscaping for a front yard?

The best landscaping for a front yard varies but consider low-maintenance annual and perennial plants that accentuate your entrance with colorful accents. Incorporate pavers for walkways and edging for a neat look.
What type of landscaping is the most low-maintenance?

The most low-maintenance type of landscaping has little or no grass, easy ground covers, and plenty of drought-tolerant perennial plants.
How can I make my yard look nice on a budget?

A budget-friendly way to make your yard look nice is to add annual plants. Annuals are affordable, grow fast, and add loads of color to a front yard.
What part of landscaping is the most expensive?

The most expensive parts of landscaping vary but typically costs rise when you hire professionals to overhaul the design of a yard. Adding retaining walls, for example, can be extremely costly.