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Create street appeal with these simple landscaping ideas

Here’s what to think about when you embark on your garden design project.

Last updated: 27 February 2024 | 4 min read

AI summary

Enhance your home's street appeal with smart landscaping. For small yards, use existing features and vertical greenery. For townhouses, plan the view from indoors and use a limited colour palette.

Create a low-maintenance garden by reducing lawns and planting hardy New Zealand natives, which also attract local wildlife and thrive with little intervention.

To save money, plant perennials, use mulch, and source cuttings from friends. Check Trade Me for great deals on plants, seeds, and materials.

Stunning landscaping for small front yards

This simple landscaping plan at a Queenstown home designed by KOIA Architects utilises borrowed views of the dramatic surrounding alpine environment to enhance the private garden experience. Image: John Williams.

Contemporary garden design for townhouses

Using layered foliage this small garden creates a lush backdrop oozing with street appeal.

How to keep your landscaping low maintenance

Here, a Paul Dibble sculpture is used as the focal point. This home designed by Jessop Architects unfolds around a simple, low maintenance garden designed by Jared Lockhart. Image - John Williams.