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- Making the front garden easy - That's how it is with stones and plants
- Sparkling and decorative - composition of gravel and plants
- Natural stone slabs and flower tubs - noble design without fanfare
- Tips
With gravel and woody plants, a modern, easy-care front garden can be created
Making the front garden easy - That's how it is with stones and plants
Homeowners with limited spare time favor a simple and easy-care front garden design. This is possible with attractive alternatives to care-intensive lawns and sophisticated perennials. Find out how to create a simple front garden with stones and plants here.
Sparkling and decorative - composition of gravel and plants
Gravel-covered areas breathe floral life with easy-care plants. Under the special conditions of an inorganic mulch layer, special types and varieties are coming into focus. Recommended trees, grasses and perennials we have put together here for you:
Do you love an uncomplicated front garden, which almost keeps itself? Then you are well advised with ornamental grasses in the pebble bed. Apart from an annual pruning and watering in the drought, grasses are noted for their filigree beauty. Recommended species include the mushroom-daggers, The Beatles (Carex caryophyllea), bear-grass (Festuca gautieri) and the wonderful snow-marbel (Luzula nivea) with white ear-flowers from June to August.
Natural stone slabs and flower tubs - noble design without fanfare
With a little aesthetic instinct, natural stone slabs and flower tubs make for an attractive front garden design. The wide range of stone types holds for every budget beautiful paving stones and slabs ready from low-priced limestone to high-quality granite. Trendy polygonal plates are made from rubble of various types, such as porphyry, gneiss, basalt, or quartzite.
Pas to the flooring made of natural stones, the specialist trade Steinkübel ready for you, which are staged with a year-round or seasonal planting, tailored to the architecture of your home. As an example of the front garden at a Tuscany house, we have put together the following plan for a Mediterranean treasure chest for you:
Glorious Junker lilies (Asphodeline lutea) or majestic torch lilies (Kniphoa uvaria) act as a leit plant.
Tips
Ground cover is a nature-friendly alternative to stones and gravel for effortless front garden design. Thanks to a dense, creeping growth, the plants reliably suppress annoying weeds. Prime examples of easy-to-maintain ground cover are evergreen ivy (Hedera helix) and thick-males (Pachysandra terminalis).