Front Yard Landscaping Ideas From A Different Perspective

These front yard landscaping ideas are not about plant varieties or climate zones.  As an architectural illustrator I'm coming at this from a little different perspective. Get it? Perspective?
I've created 100's of home illustrations.  Each one dressed up with the correct shingles, siding, colors, stone, etc. predetermined by the builder, designer or architect.
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Front Yard Landscaping Lessons – The First Step

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.

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Front Yard Landscaping Ideas – Tips For Foundation Planting

In my last article on front yard landscaping I discussed laying out driveways and sidewalks as your starting point and how it could possibly help create the entire framework for your front yard design. So assuming that you're to that point, we'll move on to a few considerations of a major secondary element. Plants.When choosing and setting out plants in the front yard or any landscaping for that    .. more ...

Front Yard Landscaping Ideas – Driveway Access

In creating a convenient, inviting, and attractive entryway to your home and property, you should first think about functionality and then plants and materials later. With the main function of front yard landscaping generally being access, our first design focus would be how and where we enter and exit our homes.
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Essential Home Landscaping Equipment

Whether you have a large yard or not, having the right tools and equipment can go a long way toward helping you speed up your routine landscaping tasks and get the results that you want. Not only having good landscaping equipment is important, but also taking good care of your tools and making sure that they are kept in a safe and convenient place as well.
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Backyard Landscaping Ideas – A Guide To Evergreen Trees And Shrubs

Evergreen trees and shrubs are generally more expensive than their counterparts, although many feel that they are well worth the extra expense not only for their year-round beauty, but also their reliability and longevity. Evergreens can range all the way from broadleaved shrubs like rhododendron to the tall pines and spruces that many people think of as simply "evergreens".
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