Formal renovation of the front garden
The formal front garden can provide your garden with a clean and modern look. Whether it’s the appearance of the highly competitive Chelsea townhouse or the more traditional time property flower garden, the formal garden gives a neat and orderly appearance. Want to add attractiveness to your property? Then this formal design may be for you! Need help with your own garden design drama? Why not book an online consultation with Garden Ninja? All explained by Garden Ninja, Manchester garden designer and blogger Lee Burkhill. He is an RHS award-winning garden designer and a member of the expert panel of the BBC Manchester Garden Call on Saturday morning. Why not subscribe to my YouTube channel? Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Having a formal front garden is a statement, and ideally, it should match the style of the property. Times properties, townhouses, and turn-of-the-century properties are perfect for formal garden designs. New houses can also be a great choice for formal garden layouts. It’s about planning carefully and getting the right proportions. In this example, I was asked to design a formal front garden for a listed townhouse in Manchester. The Victorian property has fairly steep steps and a frantically paved front garden that is truly overgrown. You can say that it used to be a cottage-style front garden, but unfortunately its plants and roadside attraction are long gone! The oversized windows and the original front door give a very majestic feel. When the client asked me to design a garden suitable for the property, I started to work hard to bring back this effortless sense of grandeur. This garden design requires careful and sympathetic consideration of the age and locality of the property. As a period property, you cannot simply slap some flower pots or bricks there. Not only do you risk upsetting your neighbors, you also risk a design that is inconsistent with the aesthetics of the building. Since it is a front garden and a small space, many normal functions will not exist, namely seating or entertainment venues. It is vital for the clients that the front garden welcomes them home and looks beautiful when looking out from the lounge with its back to the front garden. As busy working parents, they want something low-maintenance that can survive the winter while still being genuinely interested. I designed a formal layout that combines the height and interest of some standard bay trees. Reflecting this, I used Buxus (box hedge) pruning balls to match the standard, but on the ground. The two factories will provide a year-round structure. Then I filled these plants with the classic formal garden plants of lavender. The allium plants that emerge from the soil interspersed in summer reflect once again the standard and pruning circular habits. Carex morrowii’Ice Dance’ was selected as the edge plant, spreading on the gorgeous brick herringbone terrace. To add a touch of modernity, I added 4 weathering steel flower pots with bright blue Agapanthus flowers. Their leaves provide an excellent fleshy evergreen color, and then in summer, they will bloom bright blue flowers. You can see from the lounge that these provide a vibrant light. .
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So inspiring! Keep up!
Beautiful garden design and it actually was for a small front garden, exactly what I've been loooking for.
Terrific job! Bravo! I especially like the artistic m design and different texture and shapes of plants.
Brilliant!!
Thank you.
Love this! Do you have any favorite books on semi-formal garden design you’d recommend to learn how to achieve a similar look?
GORGEOUS!! I LOVE IT..!
nice! I'm in zone 3 in Canada and in my back yard we are putting in a patio with a border garden and then there is a fence behind the border garden. We want to put 1.5" granite rocks on top of the dirt after we plant shrubs and things because we have a piggy of a dog who likes to run around dirt. So I need to plant things that I can "set and forget". What would you suggest? I wanted to plant some thuja occidentalis shrubs which have that similar globe shape. I would like symmetry and a formal look that is low maintenance so the thuja shrub doesn't require as much pruning.
"Hickelty-Pickelty' is my new word! You did an incredible job and I want it!!
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Great job!!
Wow – that really is inspiring. I love how you've only used limited plant types too – so much easier to care for/replace (if needed) Love it!! (and thanks for the agapanthus tip – you've just saved mine 🙂 )
Beautiful
I'm inspired now to get busy with my tiny urban front yard. Thanks!
Just gorgeous…you've created such a lovely formal garden in such a small space! I love it!!!
excellent video, Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful!
Very nice
Really fabulous result. Would love to see it next summer when the planting has bedded in too. Very sensitive aweness of period features was great to see.
Monty Don Watch your back ! Love your channel
This was such a fun project. Taking a small awkward space and turning into a formal chic front garden! What's your favourite garden style?