To create inviting, attractive, and easy entryway to your home and property, functionality of the landscape should be your first concern. Plants and other elements should be secondary concerns. And since the main function of front yard landscaping is generally access to the home, our first design focus would be how and where are we going to enter and exit our homes.

To what extent you can plan landscaping the front yard may be limited by some factors that you can’t control. The size of your lot, how your home faces the street, and property lines can all be limiting factors. More >