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Colorful Front Yard Garden Plans

Add curb appeal to your home with these appealing multiseason flower gardens.



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Easy Streetside Garden Plan
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Easy-Care Streetside Garden

    Greet guests with a colorful garden in your parking strip (between the street and sidewalk). This plan features native plants such as aster, baptisia, and purple coneflower. Garden size: 6 by 29 feet.

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Front Walk Garden

    Dress up the sidewalk that runs to your home with a mix of annuals and perennials, including verbena, foxglove, begonia, yarrow, and lavender. Garden size: 9 by 15 feet.

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Mailbox Garden

    Dress up your mailbox with a colorful mix of practically carefree flowers, including petunias, dusty miller, and dahlias. Garden size: 3 by 5 feet.

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Romantic Arbor Garden

    Enhance an arbor over your front gate by growing climbing roses for a show that lasts all the way to fall. Garden size: 6 by 10 feet.

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Front Yard Cottage Garden

    Delphiniums, foxgloves, daisies, iris, and other cottage-garden favorites are the perfect pick-me-up for a white-picket fence. Garden size: 7 by 12 feet.

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Colorful Corner Garden

    You'll love this bright garden -- and your neighbors will, too. Featuring favorites such as butterfly bush and petunia, it also offers grasses for winter interest. Garden size: 11 by 11 feet.

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Architectural Garden

    Agaves and ornamental grasses make a great pairing, especially in modern-style landscapes. Garden size: 11 by 12 feet.

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Foundation Garden

    Cover up the foundation around your home while adding color from impatiens, wishbone flower, and other shade-loving flowers. Garden size: 11 by 12 feet.

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Sidewalk Garden

    Use this mix of annuals to brighten your parking strip -- gazania, cosmos, and zinnias will flower all season long. Garden size: 6 by 18 feet.

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English Cottage Garden

    Snapdragons, lilies, cosmos, hydrangeas, and other great flowers for cutting will add season-long color to your front yard. Garden size: 6 by 22 feet.

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A Rose Lover's Front Walk

    It's hard to top roses for color, beauty, and fragrance. This plan is designed for the true rose aficionado. It features a dozen distinct varieties, including a spectacular pair of climbing roses. Garden size: 8 by 13 feet.

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Low-Care Sidewalk Garden

    Use this plan to fill that challenging strip of grass between your sidewalk and the street with lots of easy-growing color. Garden size: 20 by 8 feet.

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A Dose of Red-Hot Color

    This gently curved bed will add eye-popping color even in the warmest of weather. Scarlet sage and stately canna add vertical elements, while zinnias add nonstop excitement all season long. Garden size: 14 by 9 feet.

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Dress Up a Fence

    Airy blue lobelia and rosy nasturtiums frame the base of the fence, while lilies and daylilies add color at the top. This ultrasimple, low-maintenance garden creates a welcome for guests and passersby that's impossible to ignore. Garden size: 12 by 9 feet.

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Spring Sidewalk Garden

    Wake up your front yard early with a swarm of cheerful daffodils and pansies. Though small in size, this plan creates a welcome mat that's hard to ignore. Garden size: 15 by 6 feet.

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Hosta-Filled Shade Garden

    You can have a beautiful front yard even if it's shady all the time. Hostas are a perfect solution, with their good looks from spring to fall. Garden size: 12 by 10 feet.

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Soften Your Sidewalk

    Orange nasturtiums and white osteospermum form a colorful checkerboard in this pocket-sized garden. It adds a perfect note to your front entry. Garden size: 6 by 10 feet.

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Add Privacy with Shrubs

    Use these colorful shrubs and shrub-sized trees to offer year-round interest in your front yard. Plus, enjoy the little extra privacy the plants provide. Garden size: 13 by 11 feet.

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Add a Splash of Color out Front

    This easy-care border offers a season of blooms and is perfect for dressing up the front of your house. Garden size: 9 by 28 feet.

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Create Cottage Style in Your Front Yard

    Lush cottage-garden plants create a beautiful, causal feel in your front yard. Garden size: 4 by 44 feet (in an L shape).

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Create Lush, Spring Beauty

    This mix of fragrant spring-blooming trees, shrubs, and bulbs will add welcome to your front yard. Garden size: 34 by 20 feet.

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Cover an Arbor with Roses

    A simple arbor covered in roses and flanked by old-fashioned cottage-garden favorites creates a welcoming scene for any landscape. Garden size: 16 by 15 feet.

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Create Fall Appeal

    Put on a show at the end of the season with this cottage-style garden plan. Garden size: 15 by 15 feet.

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Dress Up Your Walkway

    Make the walk to your front door more interesting with this path-side plan. From spring through fall, you'll enjoy charming, easy-growing blooms. Garden size: 11 by 11 feet.

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An Entry Dressed in Roses

    If curb appeal is a priority, this rose-clothed arbor is just the ticket. The combination of arbor, roses, and white-picket fence simply exudes charm and welcome. Garden size: 12 by 11 feet.

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Create a Big Impact

    One key to a good-looking, lower-maintenance garden: Limit the variety of plants you need to take care of. This plan requires just six varieties but offers stunning good looks in spring, summer, and fall. Garden size: 18 by 4 feet.

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Add Color to Your Front Yard

    Welcome guests with a garden that features lots of cottage-garden charm and looks good all summer long. Garden size: 25 by 8 feet.

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Foolproof Garden for Shade

    Don't worry about what shade of green your thumb may be: The plants in this garden are practically bullet-proof. They add easy color to the front of your landscape. Garden size: 18 by 8 feet.

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Enjoy the Beauty of Grasses

    Ornamental grasses are great because they look beautiful all winter and are ultraeasy to grow. Soften hard-to-mow corners in the front of your home with this small-space garden plan. Garden size: 10 by 8 feet.

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Grow an Easy-Care Pocket of Color

    Add a dose of color to the front corner of your yard with this low-maintenance garden that looks good throughout the seasons. Garden size: 9 by 8 feet.

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Add Drama to Your Front Door

    Soften the front of your house and dress up your front door with this colorful garden plan. Garden size: 15 by 15 feet.

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Dress Up Your Foundation

    This colorful garden plan will keep your front yard looking charming all year long. Garden size: 15 by 8 feet.

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Garden Plan for Your Whole Front Yard

    If you need more than just a border or two for your front landscape, check out this full-yard plan. Garden size: 35 by 45 feet.

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Landscape Your Entire Front Yard

    Here's another landscape plan for front yards -- this one is a bit bigger. Garden size: 50 by 100 feet.

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Create a Top-Notch Entrance

    Line your front walk with these beautiful selections for a welcoming entry that'll make your neighbors jealous. Garden size: 14 by 30 feet.

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Decorate Your Mailbox

    Your mailbox can be a dramatic spot in your landscape -- if you surround it with color. Garden size: 15 by 11 feet.

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Decorate Your Downspout

    The area around your downspout can be tricky to keep looking good. Try this garden plan. Garden size: 8 by 10 feet.

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Comments (14)
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byobags wrote:

Why do we continue to suggest INVASIVE, NON-NATIVE plants, which take over wild and natural areas reducing biodivesity. You could offer people sustainable gardening tips! Folks, don't make work for all the people who spend hours upon hours removing invasives from the natural environment. Use plants that are native to your area...butterfly bush is problematic in many areas and there are excellent, native alternatives. Check with your local cooperative for more information.

1/11/2012 09:14:01 PM Report Abuse
relyks2 wrote:

I love this website, it is soooo pretty. My school is using this website to find a perfect garden to plant

11/17/2011 08:42:42 AM Report Abuse
doubledqt wrote:

These pictures are fine, but I'm always skeptical of drawings. Show the drawings with the real plantings right beside it. Do all the flowers bloom at the same time? Drawings don't convince me, but real pictures do. Please upgrade to include your tested flower beds before we spend the money to follow your plan.

10/12/2011 08:18:56 AM Report Abuse
debbyrd wrote:

Love it, but to do most of those beautiful gardens involves...oh, what do you call that stuff? Oh, yeah! Water! We don't have that in Texas. What about xeriscaping?

10/4/2011 12:00:29 PM Report Abuse
vciraggi wrote:

I love all of your gardening plans and have never had a problem downloading any of them. I also LOVE all of your magazines and usually read all of it the day I receive it in the mail. I can't put it down!

8/27/2010 06:07:13 PM Report Abuse
hujifoo wrote:

I don't know how everyone is having problems with this. it is very easy. make sure you are logged in. click on download this plan. A new page will pop up. it will have the garden plan's name, picture, and discription. Make sure you have acrobat reader. Click the click here link for detailed description. Then a pdf file will pop up with a detailed plan and list of all the plants. It's very simple.

5/9/2010 09:45:53 PM Report Abuse
smwalter2754419 wrote:

I found you have to click on the picture then you should be able to get the plans for the garden. Just click a few times it will come up. also, scroll down a little to click on the plan after you click on the picture. Hope you find it.

2/27/2010 09:49:24 PM Report Abuse
wjwinnop464870 wrote:

The flower gardens are all beautiful but how do you keep grass, etc. out. It just takes over and I can't keep up with pulling it out.

1/16/2010 03:16:42 PM Report Abuse
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