Front gardens are often underestimated and overlooked, yet a well-designed and beautifully planted front garden can make a powerful, long-lasting impression on the homeowners, visitors and passersby. Granting an uplifting welcome as well as boosting a home’s desirability and value, they play an important part in the emotional relationship we have with our homes.
“There’s a temptation to see the journey from front gate to front door as simply a means of getting from A to B, but I like to encourage my clients to place equal importance and value on the front garden as on the rear,” says garden designer Richard Miers. “While it may not be the place where one dwells for long, a front garden is the first thing one sees, and gives a sense of arrival and homecoming.”
Perfection & performance
Exemplary front garden design is a careful mix of the practical and
