Get In Front With Your Front Garden

Tuesday, 04 February 2025

Front gardens are really important to us here at Vialii and are often over-looked in favour of their big sister, the back garden. But they have so much potential and this blog will tell you how to “get in front” with your outside space…

Why is a front garden so important?

Well, there are a LOT of reasons why we think front gardens are really important and here are some of them:

• Your front garden gives you a warm welcome home and can give you fuzzy feeling inside. Coming home to a mono blocked driveway doesn’t give that same feeling so create something lovely which will improve your mental health and well-being.

• Add kerb appeal! Your front garden is the first impression people will get about you and your home, so make it a good one. And it can potentially add value to your home too.

• Create an additional seating area. Your front garden may have the perfect sunny spot to sit outside in the evening. It can create a more sociable area too, where you can interact with neighbours and improve community spirit.

• By reducing the amount of hard landscaping and adding planting you will have a positive impact on pollution and flooding as well as creating more habitats for wildlife.

• A well designed front garden can add screening and improve privacy.
• It can provide additional growing space for fruit and veg. Perhaps you don’t have space in your back garden or want to use it for something else. The front garden can be the perfect spot for growing edibles and dot in some ornamentals (or edimentals) for the best of both worlds.

• By adding to plain lawn/hard landscaping, a designed front garden will stop people walking across your front garden or taking the wrong route to your front door.
• Create an infrastructure which works for parking, access to front door, back garden and bins, whilst softening it with planting.

• Consider alternative parking solutions which look great and are better for the environment. Permeable finishes and planted borders for water run off can really help.

How do I go about re-designing my front garden?

Think about how you want to use your front garden and what things are on your wish list. Do you want parking, seating, paths, lawn, planting, raised beds etc? It can be difficult to fit in all that you want and to not do something against local planning rules. Please get in touch for a free garden design consultation, so we can help transform your front garden.

Thanks for reading

Vialii