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Interesting Front Yard Landscape Alternatives

Would you like drought tolerant outdoor landscaping ideas?  Most homeowners enjoy having a lovely lawn in their front yard.  But that requires a lot of maintenance and water of course.  More and more of us are concerned about water conservation.  Here are a few outdoor landscaping ideas that do not require constant watering.

The first thing to do would be to get rid of the thirsty lawn in the front yard.  In its place have a woodland garden, hardscape or meadow.  One landscaping plan for the front yard would be to greet your guests with a natural stone walkway.  A woodland garden made up of natural stone surrounded by tiny wildflowers.  The path leading to the front door becomes a destination in itself with interesting plantings dotting the stones.

If you live in the Northeast or west try planting hydrangeas that bloom in the summer and to add a little color in the winter plant a red twig dogwood shrub. One perennial that offers year round beauty is the hellebores that offers colorful blooms through the spring and summer.  Belonging to the buttercup family it will have almost 50 blooms on one small shrub that can grow up to 18 inches.

Those living in the southwest are not new to drought resistant outdoor landscaping ideas and commonly utilize their front yard as an additional patio area.  Instead of lawn they use gravel in a variety of colors and place native plants such as cactus varieties in their garden areas.  Shade can be created by adding a pergola shading a cozy dining area.

The west is one of the biggest consumers of water that comes from other areas.  Everyone should be looking for outdoor landscape ideas that don’t require a lot of watering.  Rosemary and lavender both smell and look beautiful in the front or backyard.  They don’t depend on water or human care to thrive.  Those in the west could create a lovely patio area in their front yard for entertaining.  This could be a lovely area to share a glass of wine with the neighbors.  

There are several online sites that give suggestions for native plants that would deffinately thrive in your region.  They will display photos so that you are then able to purchase them from the local nursery or even order the plants from these sites. A money saving suggestion would be to purchase small four inch potted plants instead of more mature plants.  You will be surprised at how fast they grow into lovely adult plants.

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