Best low maintenance front garden tips

Simple, effective rules for a low maintenance front garden which flowers almost all year round. It's very easy once you know what front garden plants to choose! Based on a real front garden (mine!), brilliantly designed before I lived here - they did everything right.

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[Sookielein]

My neighbor got some trees and shrubs for winterinterest but anything else is just full of wildflowers. Each year she just throws some hand full of new seeds on the ground and waters them only this one time. That's it and let me tell you each year it looks spectacular. Whimsical and full of beautiful color from early sommer until well into fall. It doesn't get more low maintance than that, it's dirt cheap and it's the best you can do for the wildlife/pollinators.

[dougkelley]

A very useful episode, thank you! As much as it is pleasing to show a well-kept face to the world, it is also a way to be sociable. Too few houses have front porches anymore, and maybe the television and air conditioning lure us inside too. I have most of my interaction with neighbors though as I am pottering in the front garden as they come out to collect their mail or walk their dogs. This can lead to sharing any surplus of plants when they admire anything in particular. In this way the gardening bug spreads and the whole neighborhood becomes a garden - of plants as well as of friends.

[Euclidean]

I’m so glad you commented on artificial lawns. I do worry for the environment with the current trend of carpeting gardens with green plastic. It also rarely looks good in my opinion. I did wonder what would happen as an artificial lawn reaches the end of its life and yet more plastic going to landfill isn’t great.

[saskiaprins]

I am so happy that I discovered Alexandra's videos! My gardening life is just starting and she makes it look realistic and manageble. And when it does not work, she is honest. I like it.

[loretagema]

One of the best tips for low maintenance garden ever! I need a very low maintenance container garden with autumn to spring interest as I'm away from home often. This video was extremely useful! Thank you!

[castaneaa]

Thank you Alexandra for mentioning the environmental and sustainable side of things. I like to see my garden as a habitat for wildlife that they are welcome to enjoy as much as I do! ☺
Cheers!

[EmbracingHarvest]

Roses and lavender are all over my front yard garden as well! Great tips!

[gjcinqmars]

Great video, lots of useful information.

Interestingly, my husband and I are putting in more trees and shrubs to lower maintenance as we age.

[hollylc]

Another lovely video, Alexandra. My front yard is a cottage garden, quite full and expanding around the sides. It is work but not too high maintenance. I'll spend all day in it just because it makes me happy. Aging has prompted more low maintenance perennials but I do enjoy having become the neighborhood "flower lady" and making friends with the dog walkers. I've noticed fewer are allowing their dogs to potty in my yard these days. Your walkway trees are beautiful! I have a curved walkway and through years of storms and pruning, our crabapple arches over the walk to hold hands with the Fire and Ice Hydrangea. It worked out stunningly.

[carmenbailey]

Love your videos, I’m at the stage that as I age my garden decisions have to be thought out carefully. Low maintenance is very important, knees aren’t the same as they once were. Thanks for sharing always appreciated 👍❤️😊

[barbll]

The gardens are lovely. I particularly like the two trees at the gate.

[poples]

I've always loved ivy, and said if I moved to britain I'd love a brick house with ivy growing up it, and was devastated when someone said that ivy destroys the brickwork. It's great to know that's not true (unless the brickwork is already damaged). And the same with trees. So fascinating, really.

[gardeningjunkie]

I love to listen to the sound of your voice so am always happy when you come out with a new video. This is sometimes a problem for me like today, I have a very high maintenance garden, but here I am still watching.

[carefreedelight]

I love the fact that your garden looks like all our gardens. It makes me want to garden. Thank you.

[TheImpatientGardener]

Great tips and, as usual, great visual inspiration.

[nancyrebert]

Thank you for posting these tips. The longer I garden, the more low maintenance I wish my garden to be so I have more time to create more garden beds.

[meredith]

I wish I could go back to my 20's knowing what I know now. I had that gardener's disease " one of everything". Over the years I have changed things but I'm hard-pressed to limit ( especially trees ) to 5 or 6 varieties, and I'm thinking you mean 5 or 6 total not 5 or 6 of each. haha Great tips.

[thefutureissmall]

Absolutely love this - thank you Alexandra! Now to find a suitable tree for my tiny front garden.

[beverlykoehler]

we also have low maintenance trees and shrubs in the front yard. we love our live oaks, magnolias, contorted mulberry, white fringe, and maple trees and the birds love them too! enjoyed the video! those two flowering trees you have in the front are wonderful.

[KseniaIz]

Alexandra, as always, a great video. I totally agree with you that we tend to neglect our front garden. Low maintenance front garden is the best solution. Thank you for your video. I always enjoy watching them.