The entrance to your house creates that all-important first impression when visitors arrive, so why not use plants around your front door to enhance curb appeal and welcome you back home? There are so many choices to suit all house and garden styles from geometrical topiary to frame a formal entrance, to ferns, heucheras and hostas for shady front porches, and elegant displays of fragrant summer perennials and colourful annuals to create the perfect cottage garden look.
Add plants to borders and beds near the front door, or train climbers up the house wall, to add interest to your entranceway. In courtyard front gardens or houses with little space outside the front door, use window boxes, hanging baskets and containers to create fabulous seasonal displays.
And if you have containers in a sunny spot outside the front door, why not plant white clover to spill over the edges and soften the planting? Not only will a variety like Trifolium repens ‘Purpurescens Quadrifolium’ look beautiful with its eye-catching chocolate leaves with green margins, but the foliage is mostly four-leaved, so it will hopefully bring you and your visitors good luck!
Best front door plants WisteriaIf you have the space on a south- or west-facing house wall, wisteria is the perfect climber to add colour and drama to your front garden in May and June. Often planted as a romantic backdrop to cottage gardens, this long-lived perennial produces curtains of lilac-blue, violet, pink or white pea-like flowers which fill the air around the front door with their sweet fragrance.
Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria) and Wisteria floribunda (Japanese wisteria) are the most commonly grown species. Both thrive in fertile, moist but well-drained soil and need to
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