Rock Garden Designs For Front Yard Landscaping

There is nothing more appealing than attractive front yard, when you can combine hardscape and greenery properly. Rock can perfectly create a natural landscape that is very low maintenance and weather resistant. Typically, rock garden is located in high mountains where strong wind blows and the garden should survive from drought and intense sunlight exposure. You can experiments with wildflowers in an array of complementary hues for a layered look and all-over colour, combine mounded plants and groundcovers with various-size shrubs that provide vertical interest.

If you do not have a naturally rocky site, you can create naturally rock garden. Consider building a stonewall. It offers an ideal foundation and border for a variety of low-growing alpine classics, including Aubrieta ‘Royal Blue’, Phlox subulata, and Potentilla. Gypsophila franziiand Dianthus ‘Tiny Rubies’ fill crevices between stones and help to integrate the stone wall with the rest of the terrace garden.

To add visual interest optimally in your rock garden, play with texture and vary the scale of plants and rocks. A mixture of conifers, shrubs, and perennials works beautifully to create a lush landscape that blends distinctive foliage and colourful blooms. Choose boulders, Mexican pebbles in a dry creek bed, and bricks in the winding pathway lend natural texture and additional drama.

Choosing plants that are tolerant to drought such as Eriogonum umbellatum or Salvia pachyphylla. Both plants are drought-tolerant and thrive with little maintenance. They are also eye-catching when you combine with rock borders. Just imagine that you create a painting in your front yard with rock garden as the backdrop. Play with colours of blossom as the flowers mentioned before and pairing them with striking foliage. For instance, you can combine the feathery foliage of a low-growing juniper offers a lovely contrast to the cheerful pink flowers of candytuft and petunia. An evergreen groundcover like juniper offers multiple benefits: It fills in spaces between rocks quickly, it’s drought-tolerant, and it adds year-round interest to the garden.

Placement of rock garden or ideal position in your yard is important to plan before you design the front yard landscaping with rock. If you will bring in boulders or rocks to create your rock garden, look for a site that will naturally fit into the overall landscape. For example, a rock garden will probably look out of place in the middle of a lawn, but it looks great on a sloping site with a backdrop of shrubs or conifers. This berm planted with a variety of low-growers, evergreens, and shrubs appears to have always been a part of the landscape. Not every landscape project will never be complete and perfect without a good planning. Start with drawing layout and envision that you will enjoy your rock garden in the front yard for years to come.