Front yard driveway landscaping ideas
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Boost your parking real estate without compromising curves
Designed to handle high-traffic overflow parking, this horseshoe driveway allows easy in-and-out access for the entertainers at heart or for those who have outgrown the typical driveway size. Matching beauty with brawn, this beautiful pairing of our Linea and Villagio pavers is the perfect complement to the traditional nature of the home they lead up to.
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13 Creative Driveway Landscaping Ideas
A driveway may be utilitarian, but it doesn't have to be ugly.
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Pretty yet Practical
When considering driveway landscape ideas, also think about the conditions. In the North, for instance, is there a place to shovel or blow snow? And, no matter where you live, you’ll want to address drainage issues. See how to install an in-ground drainage system. In this case, the landscape includes plants and mulch on the high ground and a swath of river rock on the low ground where it serves as a dry creek bed to direct rainwater.
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Circular Driveway
When space permits their use, circular driveways not only add a touch of class, they also serve a practical purpose, eliminating the need to back up. In this case, a statue is surrounded by a formally sheared boxwood hedge, which also keeps vehicles from getting too close.
Fill the interior with an easygoing groundcover, such as creeping euonymous or periwinkle, and you’ve got an attractive focal point. Here are 12 simple ways to enhance curb appeal.
Plus: check out these cheap curb appeal landscaping ideas you can DIY.
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Planting Pockets
Although it may be tempting to landscape the entire expanse of your driveway, another driveway landscape idea is to create a planting pocket. It can be any size or shape, so long as it’s got enough rooting space for your chosen plants. Consider the mature size of the plant, though. In this case, the homeowner has chosen a dwarf blue spruce which won’t outgrow its bounds. The bed itself is edged to keep grass roots from migrating into the bed and causing extra maintenance.
Learn everything you need to know about garden and lawn edging here.
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Grand Entrance
If you want guests to know where to park, you can earmark the driveway with matching trees lit up by landscape lighting for extra drama.
Note the trees have been pruned to make them more architecturally interesting and to avoid blocking the view when vehicles are backing up. This is a good example of a smart driveway landscape idea.
Plants aren’t the only thing that can improve a driveway’s looks. Repave your driveway for instant enhanced curb appeal.
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Curbstone Setting
Colorful cottage garden flowers are a delight. But how sad it would be to see them inadvertently knocked over by a careless driver. A curb helps keep that from happening—and also keeps soil and mulch in place in case of rain. Meet 10 inexpensive plants that will make your garden pop.
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Tuck-Under Garage
A slope and a tuck-under garage pose an aesthetic challenge that’s easily solved with smart driveway landscaping ideas like this.
Tall arborvitaes help tone down the house’s height. A large group to the right is balanced by a smaller clump of arborvitaes and cascading Japanese maple to the left. Now imagine the setting without the tall evergreens—the house would seem out of scale with the rest of the landscape.
If you’re planting arborvitae or other large shrubs or trees, check out our tips here.
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Going to Pot
Placing large containers in strategic locations is another driveway landscape idea. The key is to put them where they won’t interfere with vehicles—and to use containers that are large enough to see easily. Small pots would look fussy—and they’d be hard to see—but these larger pots work just fine. Notice how the color and shape of the containers is repeated to streamline the design. Make your own pots! See our 10 plans for planters and trellises.
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A Smart Approach
Landscaping is great, but you still need a place to park the cars. Note how the landscaping here is limited to the right side—in front of the house where it’s best appreciated—while the left side is gravel so extra vehicles can park without blocking the garage. Read about inexpensive landscaping for attractive entryways.
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Annual Appeal
Bedding plants are valuable when it comes to implementing driveway landscape ideas. They look good in batches, so you can plant a nice expanse of color that pops from the street—or from your front window. These marigolds and dusty miller plants are an example of mass appeal. Plus, next year you can switch up the game plan and go with different colors and different plants.
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Rock, but no Roll
Another way to keep cars from rolling into your gardens is to use rocks in your driveway landscape.
Rocks can be practical and ornamental at the same time, especially when paired with attractive plants such as these evergreens. Using a mulch of the same material unifies the look of the bed.
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Country Garden
A driveway landscape should match the style of the rest of the landscape. This gravel driveway is adorned by mounds of lavender for a country garden look that matches the architectural style of the house. Here are 15 landscaping tips for all house styles.
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Formal Attire
On the opposite end of the spectrum is this formal driveway, which includes low, sheared hedges and topiary shrubs. It may look like a lot of work, but with a slow-growing hedge such as boxwood and store-bought topiary shrubs (available at independent garden centers), it’s not much work at all. Here are 25 tips for planning the perfect garden.
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Important Steps
When dealing with a slope, steps may come into play. Rather than mucking them up with plants, leave them open and accessible, then plant the landscape to the opposite side as seen here with the dwarf blue spruce and heather.
Want more options? Check out 11 sparkling shrubs for today’s yards.
Originally Published: May 14, 2019
Luke Miller
Luke Miller is an award-winning garden editor with 25 years' experience in horticultural communications, including editing a national magazine and creating print and online gardening content for a national retailer. He grew up across the street from a park arboretum and has a lifelong passion for gardening in general and trees in particular. In addition to his journalism degree, he has studied horticulture and is a Master Gardener.
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Two years of daily work with tight deadlines and the number of workers up to 50 people a day, and the most interesting project of a large natural garden became a reality. Everything in it is unusual - from bionic architecture and the original solution of the relief, to openness to the winds, river beauties and the eyes of walking people. The house fits perfectly into the existing and created terrain, making it possible to smoothly rise to the terraces of the second floor directly from the ground. Panoramic glazing creates the closest connection with the garden, and a magnificent view of the river is framed by expressive tree plantings. This is the great power of his charm for the owners. The implementation of this large-scale project made it possible to realize our past experience with elastopeve paving, in which it is very important to choose the right color of pebbles, taking into account the darkening from the resin, the creation of author's picturesque reservoirs with large stones and waterfalls, although all previous ones were concrete and no smaller than 170 cm, for swimming , and this one was designed - shallow, gently sloping and gravel, providing for a wintering zone for fish, lining the retaining walls with gabions - performed very high quality, with two types of stone, landscape lighting devices with 18 separate switching lines.
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