On this page you will find inspiring ideas and case studies to help you bring life to your street. #WhatIf all front gardens and front yards were full of life?
Quick Examples from the Streets
Vegetables
You do not just have to stick to flowers, shrubs and grass. Tomatoes and sweetcorn are thriving in this sunny front garden.
Recycle recycling bins
This front garden is only wide enough to accommodate a bin, but the residents have planted up two old recycling bins with ivy and other evergreens to give themselves a green front garden all year around.
Hanging Windows
This window garden near Victoria includes a window box stuffed full but also hanging baskets to add even more interest.
Front garden ponds
Multiple ponds with water lilies bring life to this street.
Front garden ponds
This is a great idea to re-use a and old sinnk, redeployed as a small pond with lilies and water plants and a fern planted into the overflow pipe.
Dolphins
Why not try and bring a smile to passers-by?
Clambering and draping wall tops
A small planter embedded into the top of the wall can be filled with easy colour.
Bin or Bike garden
Add a shallow planter to the top of a bin or bike shed and you can have a mini garden at eye level. Here sempervivums are thriving.
Bin Shelter Gardening
Add a shallow planter to the top of a bin or bike shed and you can have a mini garden at eye level. Here sempervivums are thriving.
Bin Shelter Gardening
Add a shallow planter to the top of a bin or bike shed and you can have a mini garden at eye level. Here sempervivums are thriving.
Case Studies
A Real Life Restoration
Restoring a totally hard surfaced front garden providing parking for 2 cars.