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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Loved this episode thank you so much ☺️
What is the name of your 2 front yard, low maintenance small trees, please? Looks exactly like what I’m looking for but cannot understand the name in this video. You are so informative and helpful! Thank you for all you do for us!
I love your voice and accent. It is very comforting.
I have been looking for low maintenance ideas for my front garden for a long time so this is perfect for me. Thank you!
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.
I love the fact that your garden looks like all our gardens. It makes me want to garden. Thank you.
Lots of great, practical and pragmatic advice. Excellent channel and content
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 👍❤️😊
Really enjoyed the programme but am interested to know the name of the rose variety?
Thank you for the video. You have a lovely front garden!
Hi,your video was very useful for me,as I am planning to replant my front garden,can write the name of each planter and when it’s blooming
This is wonderful — I am new to my house and have been mulling over what I’m doing. I’m in eastern North Carolina in the States, and I’ve put in azaleas, camellias, and a dogwood tree. But I’m looking for ways to hide the daffodil foliage from bulbs that were already there. I’m a rosarian, so I’ll be adding roses. But I’m allowing my lawn to become a meadow, much to my neighbors dismay! It’s a bit of a mess. So, your principles have given me a good template to follow.
Very useful tips but in a North facing heavy clay garden which only gets a sliver of sun in the summer, lavender doesn't thrive, so I have some evergreen pheasant grass instead. I also have no grass but put bark chippings around the shrubs every year or two.
Great tips on low maintenance front garden,just what I was looking for and great tips for windy gardens.
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.
I love your advice !
Loved this video ❤
I just discovered your channel and adore it, but must confess that this is the first video that I have stopped watching not even two minutes in: 5 or so different plants in a front garden? With a property of 50 by 150 feet, my front garden is THE main garden, the one I adore, and you had better believe I will cram as much as I can into it. I don't have "one of this and one of that" for the most part (even I know that doesn't usually work out very well), but I am determined to have a cottage garden with a riot of color and variety, even in such a small space.
My front garden is on a slope downwards from the house – have you any tips for low growing shrubs that will go in the lower part? Thanks for your videos they are an inspiration! 😊😊
Great video!! Thanks for sharing!
Great video thanks. Please can you advise the name of the trees at the front? Mallus something…….
I think Scandi style garden is a thing as well
really appreciate all of your thoughtful ideas. could you consider discussing ideas for low zone ( 3-4) gardens and for the alternate tropical gardens?
Wonderful observations, as always. Have you seen Little Gem magnolias used in the UK? The grow as columns so they fit in smaller spaces, unlike the Grandifloras. Thanks for all your videos. I rely on your principles though I have to translate particular plants to Texas alternatives.
Great and easy to follow advice! This is so helpful to me in my planning. Thank you!
My front garden is north facing. Do you have any shrubs that would like this situation?
Do you have a planting plan for your front garden?
I absolutely love that you brought up the downfalls of plastic lawn. Not enough people are talking about how bad they are for local wildlife and ecosystems.
Hi I’m Georgie from Melbourne, I found this video most informative and beneficial to me. Could you please tell me the name of the two front trees on either side of your front gate I couldn’t catch the name.Thanks I really enjoyed this video 😊👍🏼
Thanks for very practical pros and cons.
To much bla, bla bla….
We are in a tremendous drought area in the western us and gravelling the front yard is an idea many here have done and that we considered and decided against. I agree with you that gravel increases heat and it seems a bit of a catch-22. The best remedy does seem to be planting trees that shade everything else. Trees cool everything else down
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.
Love your videos ❤️❤️
One of the best useful practical advice. Thank you.
Excellent Alexandra, Thanks.
Trees are good. Except Eucalyptus! K
Dandelions are not weeds, lol. They are a detoxifying plant and you make tea from it and add it to salads, pasta, etc. it’s very beneficial to great health!
Gravel is a such a weed attractor. I wouldn't recommend it. Mulch is easier to maintain. In a drought ridden area like mine, gravel heats the surrounding area even more. In the summer, that's awful.
I've a corner west-facing lot in an older downtown residential neighborhood in eastern Canada. It had virtually no plantings when I bought it 26 years ago- and yes, I wanted to deter cutting across. About 20 years ago, we put in Japanese hybrid Rose Glow Barbary.
It was theoretically to grow to about 5 feet – approximately right, on the shorter side, where an immense maple partly shades it, and steals some of its water. The longer side has settled for 7 feet – with the odd spike needing to be trimmed.
Maintenance:
When the snow is gone, and leaves are considering opening, I cut out the dead wood. (My goal has never been a manicured hedge. No panic when an area is damaged – the plants will fill it in.)
1 1/2 months later, I again look for & cut out dead wood. (25 bushes, maximum 1 hour. It has a bizarre habit: some – small- branches will start to leaf out, & suddenly, they're dead! The shrub & I move on.)
After another 1 1/2 months, an hour or so of trimming excessive new growth on the sidewalk side protects the eyes of bypassers.
Spikes trimmed as needed.
Guaranteed- no one cuts across.
Thanks!
We do not get heatwaves here in Wales ! When south-east England is hot and sunny, we get cloudy, cool weather with rain, rain., rain … Thank you for your videos.
What do you wear around your knees? Might be exactly what I need. Link please!
Fake lawn os the most ridiculous, sorry better use pavers or pebbles.
Love your videos. Lot’s of good advice, great ideas & video footage, interesting people & gorgeous gardens. Would love it if you could add in written names of plants you mention & show, like in this video, that I am unfamiliar with or cannot make out well enough to look up. You do that in many of your videos, thank you. We are in the mountains of North Carolina, but you show many plants that are cold hardy enough for us, & though our mountainside lot is not conducive to any formal style, we do have a couple of areas in front for a smallish bed of trees, shrubs & flowers that this video had wonderful ideas to try. Also, we have a long, slightly shady area that is difficult for much maintenance, but I was able to find many ideas for trees, shrubs & low maintenance plants that would work for here as well. This was our vacation home that we recently retired to & are just now working to re-do & finish out. Really do love all of your videos I’ve seen so far & look forward to hours of old & new videos when time allows. We all love the UK, & have been a few times as a family & will be in England & Scotland this coming summer. My husband was a golf professional & has been there over 80 times with members, has many members from the UK & is a member of a couple of clubs there. Wish my daughter & I could go as much as has & will in future! We love it there as much as he does. Thanks for all the time you spend making these excellent videos! All the best to you & yours, Lynda
I have large Pink & Red Roses in the front, two Red Robins, a Canary Palm, Solanum, American Wisteria, Montana, Cordyline, Jasmine, Ivy, 3/4 Evergreen shrubs & two other shrubs – one flowers White, the other Red. Honeysuckle. Forsythia. Weigela. Alliums, Daffodils & other Bulbs. Two new Rose cuttings I done around Oct last year. A Perennial Geranium. Cosmos plants & seedlings in the ground & in three container pots. Trailing Geraniums in hanging pots. Oh dear guess I have too much. I find the Montana needs regulat attention, with trimming.
I think Iris, TB. You can honestly set and forget.
Subscribed! Great practical clear advice. ❤️