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Landscaping is a way of designing and maintaining beautiful yards, gardens, and larger landscapes to reduce harm to the environment, save time and money with lower maintenance, and have healthier places to work and play. Here, now, are some small front yard landscaping ideas.
Number one: Carefully make a comprehensive plan. You can start by driving around to observe what your neighbors have done with their yards. This will help spark your creativity into making your own original design. Then, you can take a tour around the entire perimeter of your small yard to see it from different perspectives or views. Try to imagine how you would want it to look like from all sides. It would help to make a sketch of how you want your design to look like. You can even make a list of all the trees, flowers, and shrubs that you want to include in your landscaping project. Take note, though, of the kind of maintenance that your selected plants will require.
Number two: Work with the current land formation. Any changes you make to the land must blend with the surroundings. Because you are working on a small front yard, then it would be a smart move to use small plants that do not grow fast or grow big. If you put fast-growing plants in small areas they will restrict the growth of smaller plants and destroy the nice effect that you were hoping for.
Number three: Do landscape edging. Landscape edging, also known as garden edging or lawn edging, is defining a border within your yard. The simplest type of landscape edging is a shallow trench cut at a lawn's edge. Again, first draw your landscape edging plan on paper before you even make a move.
These are just a few small front yard landscaping ideas that you can put into reality.
