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Make-over by Garden Designer Lee Burkhill of Garden Ninja shows how you can make over a paved front garden to create a stunning front garden. This how-to guide will help you make over your front garden with hints, tips and guides on your garden makeover! Using low-maintenance plants with year-round interest he shows you how your front garden can become the envy of your street!

With some solid design a front garden can also be a place of beauty, provide you with a welcoming retreat from a long day at work and increase the value of your home. It’s a shame that so many of us just block pave or tarmac over it.

In this example, the front garden was a sea of unloved black tarmac. It had an odd shaped bed that didn’t match the proportions of the house and a rhombus shaped sloping bed full of gravel and a tricky half dead tree stump. It pooled water when it rained and looked like a car park. The owners were keen to breathe some new life into it and help reduce the build up of surface water.

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It’s a shame that so many of us just block pave or tarmac over it as we as a nation don’t really know what to do with front gardens. I’ve written an article on things to consider with a front garden makeover which gives hints and tips. This front garden was a sea of unloved black tarmac. It had an odd shaped bed that didn’t match the proportions of the house and a rhombus shaped sloping bed full of gravel and a tricky half dead tree stump. It pooled water when it rained and looked like a car park. The owners were keen to breathe some new life into it and help reduce the build up of surface water.

After a functional green space with room for cars, access and bins.
The owners still needed parking for three cars so the first step was to map out the turning circles and sizes of their vehicles. There also needed to be accessed across the gardens for wheelie bins and the postman which was factored in and a must have. Once this was done I created a mood board with the look and feel they wanted for the garden. The clients wanted something quite contemporary that would provide year-round colour and structure to the garden.

One of my new contemporary ideas was to use Hebe pinguifolia ‘Sutherlandii’, instead of a clipped box, to provide a framework low hedge around the lawn and borders. This can be clipped once a year in spring to keep it neat in shape. It provides a formal evergreen hedge that is also something out of the ordinary!

By utilising the space more effectively this front garden makeover shows that you can not only green your grey, but have a low-maintenance high impact garden.