When it comes to designing the front yard it can feel overwhelming. This is the first impression people have of your home, it needs to be right. With this pressure, people tend to play it safe ...

Island beds can be walked around and seen from all sides, which helps to elevate your garden design into more of a showpiece. There are many other benefits too, both on a practical and aesthetic ...

When DeFelice and DeSimone moved in 20 years ago, there wasn’t much usable land in their front yard. But a nor’easter in March 2010 took care of that, knocking down many of the mature cedars ...

Hardiness: USDA 6b/7a Height: 18in Good for: Walls and paving, low hedges Known as the wall germander, Teucrium chamaedrys is one of the best front yard plants you can grow if you want a small ...

A front yard garden bed isn't complete until it's been edged, and rocks are a brilliant way to do that. This design has flat rocks stacked over each other, but medium-sized river rock or a variety ...

Ginnia Hargins in kale alley of the microfarm she runs with her husband on their front yard. Ms. Hargins introduced him to her husband, who was in the process of securing a $50,000 grant from the ...

T he island bed trend in garden design is big news right now. This aesthetic is a good fit with other current ideas like naturalistic planting and introducing more organic, curvy shapes. If you're ...