Get In Front With Your Front Garden

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…

This front garden in Tillicoultry is low maintenance but still beautiful and interesting

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.

This front garden in Perth has seating, water feature, raised beds and much more.

• 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.

This front garden in Stirling stopped people cutting across and creates a stunning welcome home.

• 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.

This sunny front garden n Bridge of Allan is the perfect spot for a seating area.

• 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.

This front garden in Bridge of Allan makes the most of the beautiful views.

• 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.

This front garden in Bridge of Allan is low maintenance, but still interesting.

• 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.

Use different materials and textures to create interest even in small spaces.

• 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.

This front garden in Larbert has a lovely combination of gravel, cobbles, chunky timbers and planting.

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.

Even small spaces can be transformed with different paths and planting.

Thanks for reading

Vialii