Home Landscape Design Ideas

Front Door Welcome

• A landscape design is the perfect way to welcome visitors to your front door. Structural elements include a walkway that can be constructed from poured concrete, flagstones or round pavers. The central component of a landscape that welcomes visitors is adorning the pathway to your door with pleasing plants and safe lighting. Shrubs can be used to line a straight walkway, while a curved walk can be made inviting with appropriately placed serviceberry trees, evergreen ground cover such as Christmas rose and clumps of blue oat grass.

Formal Quadrants

• A landscape with a formal design can be effectively created by separating it into quadrants built around a central focal point. The quadrants can be cleanly bordered and separated with small hedge shrubs such as a Green Velvet boxwood. Within these borders, you can create formal symmetry by planting the same species of dwarf tree in the center of each quadrant. Establish colorful symmetry by planting flowers of the same color in the quadrants that are diagonally opposite each other. The central focal point should feature a striking tree or meadow of flowers. Finish off this landscaping idea by placing a small bench to the front of each quadrant that faces toward the central focal area.

Sloping Yards

• You can often exploit your choice of landscaping design materials to help with a problem area. Place the natural process of erosion in check on a sloping yard with the addition of a retaining wall. The design of this structure can enhance the aesthetics of your landscape by allowing climbing vines to decorate the bricks or concrete blocks. Make an artistic architectural statement by building a retaining wall with carefully positioned holes that reveal plants added to the landscape scheme on the other wide of the wall.

Bordering Open Spaces

• A large open yard can use landscape design to increase the sense of comfort and security through the use of bordering. Divide your yard into specific sections highlighted by a patio in one place, a grove of trees in another and a vegetable garden in another part of the yard. Transform the random placement of these elements by building a border of plants around one area and a small brick fence or wall to set off another area.