Front elevation after planting: clipped hedges along the house, black landscape rock and a curved stacked-stone garden wall

Clermont, Florida

Front yard facelift: hedges, landscape rock and a garden wall

Bare beds and dying plants, on the one part of the house everybody sees.

Planting: New hedges
Beds: Landscape rock
Structure: Garden wall
Location: Clermont, FL

The brief

The first thing anyone sees

The front bed was bare, and what was planted in it was dying. Everything else about the house was in good order.

A front yard is the only part of a property that every visitor, every neighbor and every passerby sees, and it was the one part letting the house down. The fix was new hedges with the structure to hold it: landscape rock through the beds, and a stacked-stone wall to give the largest bed a proper edge instead of a line mown into the grass.

The work

Same two viewpoints, before and after

Both pairs are shot from the same position, so nothing is flattered by a change of angle.

The corner bed

Front corner of the house before work: a bare strip of soil against the wall and worn grass — BeforeA bare strip of soil against the wall, and not much else.

The same corner after work: hedges, black landscape rock and a curved stacked-stone retaining wall — AfterThe stacked-stone wall gives the bed a defined edge and holds the rock in place.

The entrance bed

Front entrance before work: an empty mulch bed beside the paver walkway with a single clipped shrub — BeforeAn empty mulch bed either side of the walk, one surviving shrub.

The same entrance bed after work: upright hedges against the wall, dark landscape rock and a circular paver planter ring — AfterUpright hedges against the wall, with a paver ring to give the bed a center.

Materials

What went in

Hedging and plantingFront elevation
Landscape rockAll beds
Stacked-stone garden wallCorner bed

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