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Front Yard Landscaping Ideas

For Your Porch, Yard, and Walkways

We focus our front yard landscaping ideas around photos so you can see how others have landscaped their porches, walkways, and yards. I'm a visual person, so home landscaping photos really give me something to work with.

We've lived in many different parts of the country and know how difficult it can be to create just the right look around your porch and home. Whether you hire a landscaper or do-it-yourself, it's always nice to have a plan.

Perfectly landscaped porch

Do you like the breezy look of wildflowers or a more manicured look? What landscaping style best fits your home's architecture? Use our photos to begin creating your own unique look.

The manicured lawn and fountain in the front house landscaping scene below gives this porch a more formal appeal. But the bench is inviting and softens the overall look.

The brick walkway design also softens the look by meandering toward the porch steps. Interestingly, the plants aren't all manicured; another way to be a bit formal but relaxing as well.

Perfectly landscaped porch

One of our favorite front yard landscaping ideas. The decorative mailbox replicates both the color and design of the home and is placed whimsically in the landscaping bed.

The plants ideally complement the porch and visually draw your eye toward the front of the home. The arrangement, from low annuals to higher perennials work well in front of almost any porch.

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Flower garden ideas for around your porch

What's not to like? This front house landscaping combines natural landscaping materials to create a unique walkway. Stone, split rail fencing, branch backed chair, and the right plants form a cohesive natural appeal as you approach the front porch.

I like how the fencing was used to create separate flower beds along the walkway and the colors blend together nicely.

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Color. Nothing beats color for the perfect front yard landscaping around your porch. A pleasant mix of colorful perennials that bloom throughout the spring, summer, and fall almost always creates a curb appealing look.

Because this porch sits a higher from the ground larger shrubs were chosen to frame the porch steps. A nice choice of plants with varying heights creates a welcoming floral arrangement. Notice how the floral colors complement the porch colors.

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A vibrant mix of colors in spring always creates instant curb appeal like in the photo below. Flowering trees, tulips, daffodils, crocuses, pansies, or forsythia can be used quite easily to make any porch stand out.

Spring Front Yard Landscaping
photo by mimihen

This porch has a beautifully designed railing that you don't want to hide with landscaping. A selection of low growing shrubs, perennial flowers, and hanging baskets are colorful and complement the railings to form a cohesive look.

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Awesome! Everything works on this beautiful Victorian porch. The hanging baskets complement the colors of the home - a perfect match!

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There are so many more front yard landscaping ideas we want to share with you so be sure to visit our Porch Landscaping Ideas that includes access to so many other wonderful ideas for your yard and porch.

All of our porch landscaping ideas: