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
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Vegetables
You do not just have to stick to flowers, shrubs and grass. Tomatoes and sweetcorn are thriving in this sunny front garden.
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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.
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Hanging Windows
This window garden near Victoria includes a window box stuffed full but also hanging baskets to add even more interest.
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Front garden ponds
Multiple ponds with water lilies bring life to this street.
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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.
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Dolphins
Why not try and bring a smile to passers-by?
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Clambering and draping wall tops
A small planter embedded into the top of the wall can be filled with easy colour.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A Real Life Restoration
Restoring a totally hard surfaced front garden providing parking for 2 cars.