Adding flower beds is one of the easiest ways to make the front yard more appealing and eye-catching.
Garden beds improve the overall aesthetic and can create interest in the existing property and landscape.
We have 18 Creative DIY Flower Bed Ideas to Beautify Your Front Yard that will add color, texture, and style to the first area of your home that people see.
1. Sectional Garden Bed
If you are looking for a low-maintenance garden idea, check out this outdoor layout featuring a lawn interrupted by curved garden beds.
The plant varieties are a mix of perennials and annuals that create a whimsy and gorgeous landscape.
Another key to the low-maintenance garden is to choose plants that are native to the zone and won’t require much care to thrive.
2. Garden Aside A Walkway
One of the most prominent places to create garden beds is along a pathway.
The mix of colors and textures created by the chosen plant varieties will brighten the neutral walkway and monotonous green lawn.
Usually, garden beds along walkways incorporate repetition of flower kinds to create visual symmetry and balance.
3. Flower Bed To Attract Pollinators
Wildflowers and blooming plants that attract pollinators create a beautiful flower bed.
You can also use these plant varieties to add pops of colors to monotonous areas such as the neutral exterior walls or the lawn.
Choose the flowers depending on what wildlife creatures you want to attract. For example, butterflies love cornflowers, while hummingbirds prefer salvia.
4. Layered Flower Bed
You can create such a layered garden bed pattern by planting different kinds of flowers in rows.
Use their colors and heights to distinguish them and to create a visual interest.
5. Curved Garden Beds
Creating a curved pattern of the flower beds can be used to visually lead to a certain area of your property.
This landscaping method is usually used in front yard gardens surrounding the front door.
The entrance becomes more welcoming by adding the natural beauty of flowers to the front yard.
The curved shape of the garden can be achieved by planting identical flowers in tufts or by edging the garden bed with borders from bricks, stones, and pavers.
6. Monotonous Garden Bed
Some people prefer a more monochromatic look, hence they go for plants in one color instead of a mix of colored blooms.
If you go for such a garden bed, match plants with different textures and heights that will compensate for the lack of color.
7. Side Flower Bed
If you have space and time, investing efforts in a garden bed around the sides of your house is always a good idea.
Some people prefer gardens covered with gravel or mulch that will help drainage of water that is otherwise harmful.
Choose the plants for the side of the yard depending on the amount of light and the visual effect you want to create.
8. Go For Evergreens
Garden beds with evergreen plants are preferred by people who don’t have much time but yet want to maintain a beautiful garden in front of their houses.
The evergreen plant family is huge and you can mix and match shrubs with trees and ornamental grasses to create a unique visual effect.
To minimize the maintenance, plant them on a mulch or gravel surface that will limit the growth of weeds.
9. Flower Bed With No Edging
The edging of the garden bed creates an instant visual definition of the garden.
However, you can still achieve a differentiated look of the garden with mulch or gravel and flowers planted in a row.
10. Raised Flower Bed
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Raised flower beds are a great way to spruce up the outdoors of your home. You can use plain or whimsy containers or create a more long-lasting container with concrete or cinder blocks.
The advantage of the raised garden beds is that they can be customized in size to fit the space you want to beautify with natural gifts.
11. Flower Bed With A Retaining Wall
Retaining walls are very important means to create a garden bed in a sloped terrain.
They act as a unique edging that keeps the soil in place in addition to differentiating the garden from the rest of the outdoors.
Choose materials such as stones or concrete for your retaining wall design to keep the landscape natural.
12. Flower Bed With An Edging
The clean border makes the garden bed so finished! You can build it from various materials that can enhance the outer look of your home.
In case of a cottage garden, bricks, roof tiles and wood logs match perfectly.
For a more contemporary and monochrome garden, go for stone slabs, cinder blocks, or concrete blocks.
13. Flower Bed Around A Tree
Another great location for a beautiful garden bed is around a tall tree. The garden will add a nice pop of color and won’t take much space.
Choose the plant varieties depending on the shade amount thrown by the tree.
14. Flower Bed With Shrub Edging
Clean edges can also be created with plants. Boxwood is perfect for shaping a border around a garden bed.
The thick green foliage will add texture and color, especially if the varieties next to it are blooming plants.
15. Accent The Front Porch With Seasonal Flowers
Complement the front porch with a skirt of colorful flowers! Plant them in colors, creating lush tufts of blooms.
The flowers will instantly give interest to the front yard. The atmosphere will also change to a more welcoming one.
You can mix annuals with perennials and evergreen shrubs to enjoy not only the seasonal blooming phase but also a colorful display all year long.
16. Cottage Style Flower Bed
Add the charm of the English cottage house to your landscape with a beautiful garden bed full of wildflowers, blooming flowers that attract wildlife, and textured greenery.
Usually, the plants are placed in tufts, creating large groups that easily stand out.
Green shrubs, trees, and grass are tucked among the blooming flowers to add volume and texture to the garden.
17. Symmetrical Garden Beds
Symmetrical garden beds placed in the front yard instantly spruce up the outdoors.
You can go for regular shapes or think outside the box and give the gardens trapezoidal, parallelogram, or triangle shape.
They will create a harmonious look of the landscape and will make an unexpected statement.
18. Flower Bed Along The Fence
One of the best places for a garden bed is along the fence. Usually, the flowers are planted in rows to keep the look symmetrical and continuous.
For a modern look, plant evergreen shrubs and ornamental grass. For a bolder and casual look, try various shades of flowers arranged in groups or rows.
