{"id":10229,"date":"2016-05-08T00:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:22:06","slug":"tips-for-your-front-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/tips-for-your-front-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Your Front Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Iris by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/5709646199\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3490\/5709646199_e524f654fc.jpg\" alt=\"Iris\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovely climbing rose on the front of this house<\/p>\n<p>The Front garden is a great part of English life. Unfortunately there is increasingly a trend to replace the front garden with concrete so people can park a car. But, what better way to start the day than walking through a bit of garden at the front of your house.<\/p>\n<h3>The Huge Flower Approach<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Front Garden Oxford by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/3965325919\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2613\/3965325919_c73ed0a8e5.jpg\" alt=\"Front Garden Oxford\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to give joy to passers by, go for a real impact and fill it with lots of colour. These dahlias give an excellent summer long flowering display &#8211; you will just need to spend time watering. Every bit of space has been maximised with these hanging baskets<\/p>\n<h4>The Zen Approach to Front Gardens<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Front Garden by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/4840301190\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/4840301190_2ed44aa350.jpg\" alt=\"Front Garden\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit of gravel and reserved planting gives a very relaxed feel. It helps sooth the nerves, especially because the work to maintain is much reduced.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New College by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/4691038315\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4691038315_c67a3e6f58.jpg\" alt=\"New College\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One strong plant or tree can help give a small garden a real focus. Here an acer sets of some self-sown Nigella.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Front Garden by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/3966095870\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3444\/3966095870_05e4514085.jpg\" alt=\"Front Garden\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely climbing rose on the front of this house The Front garden is a great part of English life. Unfortunately there is increasingly a trend to replace the front garden with concrete so people can park a car. But, what better way to start the day than walking through a bit of garden at the front of your house. The Huge Flower Approach If you want to give joy to passers by, go for a real impact and fill it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/tips-for-your-front-garden\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}