3 Ways Carefully Selected Plantings Can Bring More Life and Color to Your Newton, MA, Front Yard
If you like your Newton, MA, front yard blueprint but want it to have more color and life, consider all the ways a fresh landscape plan can make it more enticing. The visual appeal of your home counts on the landscape looking lovely, and this is where selected plantings can pack a big impact.
Around the Entry
The first area your guests (and you) tend to notice upon arrival at your property is the entry from the main road. Your landscape professionals can plan to install landscape beds in your front yard for year-round beauty and color.
They can start with a focal point tree such as a weeping cherry or pretty but classic dogwoods. When they add shrubs in various green tones, you can have a pop of color that draws the eye to the shifting shades of green.
In the front of the landscape bed, there can be seasonal blooms that add color for most of the year. From springtime bulbs that bloom while the air is still cool to summer petunias and fall cabbages, this incorporates an eye-catching interest to your landscape.
If you want to add visual weight and textural interest to your front landscape, you could also consider incorporating landscape boulders in the beds. Another excellent addition can be to have your landscapers add a low rock wall around the perimeter of the entry landscape beds for increased definition.
Along the Driveway and Walkway
Introducing color along the edges of the paver driveway and walkways can happen with gorgeous blooming azalea bushes, summer impatiens in multi-color bunches, and golden fall flowers.
Bringing more color to these areas doesn’t only have to rely on annual flowers as many shrubs produce small white or lavender flowers at various points in the season. Your landscape professionals can choose shrubs that produce berries in the winter and trees with bark that changes from brown to a deep red.
Within the Front Yard
Adding more strategic plantings to the front yard can mean more blooming flowers, but something to consider could be adding a lovely water fountain to your front yard for the unmatched sounds of spilling water.
To draw the eye toward the fountain, your landscapers could add trellises to the exterior house wall where vines can grow in and around to fill them with bright, green leaves and blooming flowers.
If you choose this addition, this can become a small courtyard for sitting to enjoy the fountain as it spills over. When you add some comfortable chairs there, you can sit there to wave to your neighbors as the day winds down.
A low stone retaining wall can bring extra definition to your front yard and make more space for interesting planting plans. When your landscapers add a retaining wall to part of your front yard, the stone could add textural interest with its nooks and crannies. The new space also can become the ideal place for lovely small shrubs that break up the expanse of grassy space.
You don’t have to live with a ho-hum front yard when you have skilled landscape professionals who can create a new planting design to make your landscape dazzle.
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