Tiny front gardens can create a magical feeling of space by wrapping your living room in a beautiful border, extending from a tiny front garden to the exterior of your house. Creating tiny front gardens is not difficult. In fact it can easily be incorporated into your existing landscaping plans. There are a few things to consider when planning your tiny front garden.

What plantings will you choose? One important thing to consider is what you want to get out of your tiny front garden. You can plant annuals (perennials) that never have to be replanted. Perennial grasses do well in small spaces, like a front yard. Perennial flowers, such as roses, blue blossoms, daffodils and evergreens also look good in areas of compacted soil with limited greenery.

Can you have flowers around your small garden without it being visible from the front door? Flowers and small shrubs make a lovely border, but you must ensure they won’t be visible from your front door. You can hide them behind large plants, such as cabbages. You might also consider a small bridge to span the border.

If you plant a large perennial lavender or garden lavender in a small front garden, such as on a deck, you’ll probably want to use a pot as well so that the plant gets enough sunlight throughout the day. Most perennial flowers and herbs do quite well in pots, because they’re so small. Many gardeners use clay pots for their tiny front garden plants because they hold water well and are easy to clean.

A planting design tip that is often overlooked is to group plants together by color or texture. This saves money because you don’t have to buy new pots each year when you change your pots. You should also try to group plants according to hardiness zones, whether they’re tropical or temperate or hardy woods or shrubs.

A popular gardening style used by many home gardening enthusiasts is the raised bed garden. A raised bed is the most basic garden design tip but can be very beautiful in a tiny front yard. The best way to group plants in this style is to mix the size of the plants. One could start with a bed of herbs, and group those plants in groups of three or four inches apart. Then, group two or three perennials together, and group another three or four herbs together.

In addition to grouping plants in groups of three or four, grouping them by colour is a great way to keep the tiny front garden looking harmonious. There are several ways to do this, but one good way is to group the plants by the flowers or colours of the foliage. A Rosemary bush in full bloom would be a good choice to group alongside some marigolds. A group of purple and red honeysuckle would look fantastic next to some pink ladybugs. A grouping of red and black coloured gravel would look fantastic next to some black and yellow coloured ornamental grasses.

One of the last important items that should be considered in small planting is the type of pots to use. If you are new to the idea of planting an actual bed then you should consider investing in a good quality potting soil. A general rule of thumb is that if you want to plant anything more than a handful of plants then you should purchase a large quality potting soil. You can get this from most garden stores or even on the Internet. Once you have planted your seeds, it is a good idea to regularly water the topiary so that they can grow roots and bloom.